'Picture in Focus': Reading list

Mythology

• 'Ovid Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation'
  Translated by David Raeburn 
  Publisher: Penguin Classics
• 'Tales from Ovid: Twenty-four Passages from the 'Metamorphoses'
  by Ted Hughes
  Publisher: Faber and Faber 
• 'The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion'
  by Simon Price, Emily Kearns
  Publisher: Oxford University Press
• 'The Penguin Book of Classical Myths'
  by Jenny March (Author)
  Publisher: Penguin
• 'A Dictionary of World Mythology'
  by Arthur Cotterell  
  Publisher: Oxford University Press

Titian

• 'Titian'
  by Charles Hope, Jennifer Fletcher, Jill Dunkerton, Miguel Falomir
  Publisher: Yale University Press

Renaissance artists

• 'Renaissance Rivals: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Titian'
  by Rona Goffen
  Publisher: Yale University Press
• 'Painting in Renaissance Venice'
  by Peter Humfrey
  Publisher: Yale University Press
• 'Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction'
  by Geraldine A Johnson
  Publisher: Oxford University Press
• 'Isms: Understanding Art'
  by Stephen Little  
  Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
• 'An Introduction to Art'
  by Charles Harrison 
  Publisher: Yale University Press

Teaching and Learning

• 'Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School'
  by Jonathan Savage
  Publisher: Routledge
• 2010 Ofsted secondary school survey 'Learning: creative approaches that raise standards'

Humanities

• 'History, Geography, Religious Studies and Citizenship'
  by Richard Harris 
  Publisher: Routledge
• 'Worldly Goods: New History of the Renaissance'
  by Lisa Jardine
  Publisher: Macmillan
• 'The Renaissance Bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo'
  by Jerry Brotton
  Publisher: Oxford University Press
• 'The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction'
  by Jerry Brotton
  Publisher: Oxford University Press

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