Course Reserves

Oxford Art Online

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Italy and Spain, 1600-1750; Sources and Documents. / [compiled by] Robert Enggass [and] Jonathan Brown. Oversize: N6916 .E5

This book consists of translations with introductions of important source material designed to help readers become familiar with the art of the period.

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

1. focus on artists , e.g.

Caravaggio Michelangelo

Carracci

Domenichino

Reni, Guido

Guercino

Fontana, Lavinia

Gentileschi, Artemisia

Sirani, Elisabetta

Ribera, José de

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban

Velázquez, Diego

2. On the Medium or the Art Objects:

Mural painting and decoration, Baroque

Painting, Baroque -- Italy

Sculpture Baroque

3. On a Particular Aspect:

Popes -- Art patronage

4. On Style

Art, Rococo.

5. The Broad Context:

Art, Baroque --Italy

6. The Broader Context:

Art, Baroque.

Art, Baroque -- History.

7. Musuem/Exhibtion Catalogues:

These catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, particularly when you are not able to see the art objects in person. They include:

* Fundamental data on each work of art;

* Official images of the artworks;

* Curatorial statements/essays;

* essays by art critics/historians;

* list of scholarly publications on the art,

* and more.

 

Here is an example:

Baroque, 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence. / edited by Michael Snodin, Nigel Llewellyn; assisted by Joanna Norman. N6415.B3 B37 2009

 

 

Search the Catalog for more:

Art, Baroque -- History -- Exhibitions.

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Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

 

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

 

Author	Thomson David 1951
Title	The Origins of Baroque Art in Rome / Alois Riegl; edited and translated by Andrew Hopkins and Arnold Witte; essays by Alina Payne, Arnold Witte, and Andrew Hopkins.
Publisher	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Subject	Art, Baroque -- Italy -- Rome.
	Architecture, Baroque -- Italy -- Rome.
Added Author	Hopkins, Andrew, 1965-
	Witte, Arnold Alexander.
	Payne, Alina Alexandra.

A. Use Subject Databases for Journal Articles:

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

3. Period Studies

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 -1700).

4. International Bibliography of Art & Architecture (the Avery Index)

 

5. History, Religion, and Women's Studies

 

6. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Review Articles

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

An example of review of a Book:

Phillips, Carla Rahn. "The Art of Allegiance: Visual Culture and Imperial Power in Baroque New Spain.". Winterthur Portfolio, 43:4 (2009), 408-409.

 

 

A Few Core Journals:

Renaissance Quarterly

Renaissance Studies  

 

Architectural History

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

 

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

 

French Studies

The Sixteenth Century Journal

 

C. More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Goldstein, Carl. "Rhetoric and Art-History in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque ." Art Bulletin 73: 4 (1991), 641-652.
References: 146 Times Cited: 10

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 146 references that Carl Goldstein cited for his article and, in turn, 10 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Chicago Style Manual (for citing sources)

RefWorks

ARTstor

Artifact (Tufts University)

Image Quest  
an online file of more than two million rights-cleared images from some 40 image collections.

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Books and journals with color plates, photographs, and other visuals are excellent sources; these illustrations are usually done professionally and/or are commissioned works serving as the official records of the built works.

monuments and pictorial works

Renaissance and "pictorial works"

Baroque and "pictorial works"

architect* and photo*

architect* and exhibition*