Course Reserves

Oxford Art Online

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600; Sources and Documents. / Wolfgang Stechow. Oversize: N6370 .S66

The Four Books on Architecture. / Andrea Palladio; translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield. NA2515 .P253 1997

On the Art of Building in Ten Books. / Leon Battista Alberti; translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor. NA2515 .A3513 1988

Paper Palaces: the Rise of the Renaissance Architectural Treatise. / edited by Vaughan Hart with Peter Hicks. NA2515 .P36 1998

Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory. / Mario Carpo ; translated by Sarah Benson. NA2584 .C3713 2001

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

Cellini, Benvenuto

Primaticcio

Sebastiano Serlio

Jean Fouquet

Jean Goujon

 

2. On the Medium or the Art Objects:

drawing* and renaissance

graphic* and renaissance

print* and renaissance and france

architect* and renaissance and (domestic* or residen*)

Note:

1. include "and" in between keywords;

2. "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions;

3. architect* for all forms: architect, architecture, architectural, etc.

 

3. The Broader Context:

Architecture, Renaissance

Architecture, Renaissance -- France.

 

Art Renaissance

Art Renaissance -- France

 

 

4. 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:

French Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum. / Thomas Kren. ND3147 .J2 2007

 

 

Search the Catalog for more:

Art, Renaissance -- Catalogs.

Art, Renaissance -- Exhibitions.

**The book, Treasures of the French Renaissance (in the Tufts collection) is a closest title to such a catalog specifically of Renaissance France.

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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	Renaissance Architecture: Critics, Patrons, Luxury.
Publisher	Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, c1993.
Subject	Architecture, Renaissance.
	Architects and patrons.
	Architecture and society -- History -- 16th century.

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

International Medieval Bibliography (400-1500).

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:

Stacey, Sarah Alyn. "The French Renaissance Court (review)". French Studies, 64:4 (2010), 482-483.

 

 

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:

Scheller Robert W. "Imperial Themes in Art and Literature of the Early French Renaissace - the Period of Charles-VIII" Simiolus-Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art   12: 1 (1981), 5-69.
References: 278 Times Cited: 5

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 278 references that Robert W. cited for his article and, in turn, 5 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.

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Chicago Style Manual (for citing sources)

RefWorks

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.

 

(including SAHARA Project by the Society of Architectural Historians)

 

Great Buildings Collection (from the magazine Architectureweek, a vast collection of current and historical "photographic images, architectural drawings, maps, timelines, 3D building models, commentaties, bibliographies, (and) web links.")

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.

 

Courtauld Institute Illustration Archives
Oversize: NA5461 .C75.

More searches:

monuments and pictorial works

Renaissance and "pictorial works"

Baroque and "pictorial works"

architect* and photo*

architect* and exhibition*