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Special Collections offers a wide variety of materials from the late 16th century to present, covering many fine art, architecture, decorative arts, and design history subjects of all cultures as well as contemporary materials and artists’ books. In the past several years Art History 102 students have seen important rare and original works that complement coursework by providing historical contexts and tangible hands-on exposure to significant research materials.
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Selected titles from Special Collections
Below are a few of the titles from Special Collections that have been shown to classes in the past (for complete lists see: Special Collections/Artists' Books Class Presentations):
- Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NK4624.5.G7 H35 2004
- Les antiquités d'Athènes byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NA280 .S8
- Real museo borbonico / descritto ed illustrato da Erasmo Pistolesi ...Call Number: RISD SPECIAL N2730 .P5
- Gli edifizj di Roma antica : cogniti per alcune reliquie byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL LARGE FOLIO NA311 .C2
- Missale Romanum byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize BX2015 .A2 1588
- Portraits of Illustrious Personages of the Court of Henry VIII byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize NC251.H7 L62 1828
- Perspective: contenant la theorie, et practicqve, d'icelle byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize NC749 .M37 1614
- L'idea della Architettvra Vniversale byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize NA2517 .S3 1615
- The Sistine Chapel byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio ND623.B9 M2713 1991
- Illustrations of the rock-cut temples of India : selected from the best examples of the different series of caves at Ellora, Ajunta, Cuttack, Salsette, Karli, and Mahavellipore byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL LARGE FOLIO NA4640 .F4 1845
- Antiquities from the City of Benin and from Other Parts of West Africa in the British Museum byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NK1087.6.N5 B68 1973
- The White Lady of the Brandberg byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize N7396.6.N35 B7 1955
- The Topkapi Scroll byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize NA2706.A783 N43 1995
- Taj Mahal byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio TR104.T2 R2 1987
- La décoration arabe ... : extraits du grand ouvrage L'art arabe de Prisse d'Avesnes / choisis, classés et arrangés par les éditeurs.Call Number: RISD Special Oversize NK1270 .P8 1885
- Saint Sophia in Istanbul : an architectural survey byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL LARGE FOLIO NA5870 .V35
- Une Cité Industrielle byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NA9030 .G3 1918
- Le Corbusier ArchiveCall Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE NA2707.L4 A4
- The Grammar of Ornament byCall Number: RISD Special Large Folio NK1510 .J7 1856
- Noa Noa : voyage à Tahiti byCall Number: RISD Special Oversize N6853.G34 A23 1947
- The Soviet Arts Poster byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NC1807.S65 S6613 1990
- Le Cinéma: Des Origines à Nos Jours byCall Number: RISD Special PN1994 .C5 1932
- Notes and projects for the Large Glass byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio N6853.D8 S32 1969
- Jazz byCall Number: RISD Special Flat Folio NC980.5.M35 A6613 1983
- Je suis le cahier : the sketchbooks of Picasso byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL OVERSIZE N6853.P5 A4 1986
- The Jackson Pollock sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art byCall Number: RISD Special Large Folio NC139.P6 A45 1997
- Les Années Pop byCall Number: RISD SPECIAL N6494.P6 A56 2001
- Twentysix gasoline stations byCall Number: RISD Artists' Books R89T 1969
- Andy Warhol's index (book) byCall Number: RISD Artists' Books W234 I
- Ornatvs Ecclsiasticvs byCall Number: RISD Special NA2190 .M8 1591
- La femme, 100 têtes byCall Number: RISD Special N6888.E7 F4 1929