The Art History Reading Challenge

Since I just finished one reading challenge and am about to wrap up another, I guess this is as good a time as any to announce my plans to join 2009's Art History Reading Challenge hosted by Sarah G. You can read about all the sign-up details here, but the basic idea is to read and post about six art-related books (fiction or non-fiction) during the course of the year. Drawing upon my extensive Etch A Sketch and Paint-by-Numbers background as a child, I've selected the following works (all non-fiction except for one novel*) as my projected titles for the challenge.

• Christopher De Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Jerrilyn Dodds (ed.), Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain
• Georges Duby, Le temps des cathedrales: l'art et la societé, 980-1420
• Sabine Rewald et al., Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
• José Carlos Somoza, Clara y la penumbra* [published in the US as The Art of Murder]
• Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists
• (Just added) Nicola Denzey, The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women (review)

Charlemagne and Roland

(lifted from a copy of a chanson de geste manuscript found online somewhere)