Allan Atlas's Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400–1600 (1998) is an extensive resource on the musical landscape of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe.

Craig Harbison’s The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in Its Historical Context (1995) delves into the beginnings of Renaissance art in the Netherlands, France, and Germany during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Architecture of the Renaissance: From Brunelleschi to Palladio (1996), authored by Bertrand Jestaz and translated by Caroline Beamish, offers a thorough overview of the architectural revival in fifteenth-century Italy, inspired by classical elements such as columns and rounded arches from Greek and Roman architecture.

Florence was the central hub for the arts during the Italian Renaissance. Florence and the Renaissance: The Quattrocento (1997), by Alain J. Lemaitre and Erich Lessing, investigates the progression of creative development in Italian architecture, sculpture, and painting during this period.

Ingrid D. Rowland’s The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome (1998) uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the cultural conditions that gave rise to the Renaissance.