1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

Keyword Title Author Subject Reserves

 

2. For books beyond the Tufts collections, use the worldwide collections:

WorldCat

Note: You are likely to find the following kinds of books when searching on an artist:

1. Monographs: books that treat a singular topic; a comprehensive and extensive study of a topic such as an artist.

2. Thematic Studies: books of chapters and essays related to each other with a sustained argument. In comparison, these books are more likely to offer Thought-provoking Arguments on a topic.

3. Primary sources: an artist's own writings, notebooks, sketchbooks, correspondence, etc.

4. Museum/Exhibition Catalogues, which include these information: 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.

1. Focus on artists

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Raphael

Lorenzo Lotto

Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

Giambologna

Giorgio Vasari

Sofonisba Anguissola

Properzia de’Rossi

Titian

Veronese

Tintoretto

2. Focus on a Particular Theme/Issue, e.g. Gender

renaissance and (italy or italian) and gender

3. On Renaissance Themes in Film

Middle Ages in motion pictures

art and motion pictures

Use the subject databases to find scholarly journal articles and to situate yourself within a critical discourse; that's where you can learn to be conversant with the critics writing in your field.

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. Academic OneFile

All subjects; a convenient quick start with some full texts.

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

A specialized database focusing on the period.

5. Two Art & Art History Databases with different emphasis

ARTbibliographies Modern

BHA: Bibliography of the History of Art = Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art (1973-2009)

International Bibliography of Art (continues the above; 2008 - present.)

6. Other Perspectives

Film & Television Literature Index

Women's Studies International

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

Author: scholars/researchers (credentials provided) vs journalists/editorial staff of popular magazines.

Articles report original research and/or provide in-depth analysis of issues related to a specific discipline, with extensive footnotes, endnotes and bibliography.

The articles are peer-reviewed or refereed.

Published by professional associations/academic press vs media conglomerate/commercial publishers;

Renaissance Quarterly

Renaissance Studies

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

The Burlington Magazine

Oxford Art Journal

Artibus et Historiae

Studies in Iconography (Tisch oversize: NX1 .S84)

 

The Sixteenth Century Journal

Digital Images

ARTstor

More than one million images with contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.

Artifact

Thousands of images by Art History course at Tufts.

Image Quest

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

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

Creative Commons Search Engine

Search for access to the freely licensed content available from many of the world's top content providers. Be sure to verify that the work is actually under a Creative Commons license by following the link.

 

everystockphoto.com

Searching over 4.3 million public domain and creative commons photos including wikipedia and NASA. Free user accounts with drag and drop collections, and other features.

Finding Images on the Web: Public Domain (Boston University)

Flickr

 

Print Images

Art, Renaissance -- Catalogs .

Art, Renaissance -- Exhibitions .

Film Stills on the Internet by Emilee Mathews

Film Stills Collections by Emilee Mathews

Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences: Research & Preservation

For the lack of any dedicated resource for film stills, we need to search all relevant databases and on the internet.

For example, these two searches in the Catalog:

film posters

motion pictures pictorial works

(stills) and (film* or cinema* or "motion pictures")
 limiting this search to Books

Sample Findings:

The Great Movies / Roger Ebert: photo stills selected by Mary Corliss.

A Guide to World Cinema: Covering 7,200 Films of 1950-84 Including Capsule Reviews and Stills from the Programmes  of  the National Film Theatre, London / edited by Elkan Allan.

Classics of the Foreign Film, a Pictorial Treasury

The Movies; the Sixty-Year Story of the World of Hollywood and its Effect on America, from Pre-nickelodeon Days to the Present

A New Pictorial History of the Talkies

Capture the Screen as You View the Movies

Some DVDs include stills gallery as special features.

Wikimedia Commons

A database of 7,412,862 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Wikimedia Commons: Sound

Free Sound Effects

FindSounds

GarageBand

If you have a Mac, you can use music you've created in your digital storytelling projects - no need to pay royalties or request permission to use - you're the composer!

RoyaltyFreeMusic.com

Creative Commons Search engine

Search for access to the freely licensed content available from many of the world's top content providers. Be sure to verify that the work is actually under a Creative Commons license by following the link.

Recording Voiceovers (Knight Media Center, Berkeley)

Scholarly Communucations@Tufts

Image Fair Use and Copyright (Boston University)

Fair Use in Online Videos, Documentary Films and Media Literacy (Center for Social Media, American University)

Tisch Library Policy on Fair Use