Palazzo Schifanoia - Hall of the Months (reply)
Hi. I appreciate your taste. I imagine that you're able to find the same webpages that I find via Googling, so I won't go down that road. If you're looking for a site or page that represents "one-stop schopping" (so to speak), I have never found one. Bookwise, your options aren't improved much, and you'll have to spend a little money (unless you live somewhere with access to a good library), but there are a few books I can suggest with portions devoted to Schifanoia.
- Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance (ISBN: 978-0-7892-0139-3). Nearly 100 bucks, but the photographs are sumptuous, and highly recommended. See the other books in the series too--a wonderful series.
- The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity (ISBN: 978-0892365371). Google Books has a preview capability for it here:
http://books.google.ca/books/about/Collected_Writings.html?id=rWVDLJFs5QkC&redir_esc=y. (see also this article:
http://www.educ.fc.ul.pt/hyper/resources/mbruhn/)
You can also try looking for art books featuring the work of Francesco del Cossa and Cosme Tura. (If you haven't looked at the Web Gallery of Art website [
www.wga.hu], be sure to go there and search on schifanoia.)
Finally, if you have about a thousand bucks to spare (not kidding), there's a book I would dearly love to see myself and likely never will; see it here:
http://www.amazon.ca/Palazzo-Schifa...F8&qid=1368552535&sr=1-1&keywords=schifanoia; in case the link flakes out, just go to any Amazon site and search on schifanoia.
And if any of the people who often post scholarly historical information here and on the Tarot History Forum know of other useful material, I do hope they'll weigh in; I would love to be guided by their expertise.)
Happy journeys!
Jay