Course-Related Guide:
Prehistoric to Medieval Art History
These links provide
information, texts, and other resources to serve as starting
points in your research on topics in art history. Questions or
suggestions related to this course guide should be directed to
Diane J.
Graves (Art History liaison), or
Benjamin
Harris (Reference Librarian).
Databases
Use databases to find journal articles, magazines articles, newspaper articles
and images related to your topic. The following databases may be
particularly helpful for this course. When you find useful
keywords in your search, make note of these and use the same
words and combinations of words in other search situations.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Index and abstracts for journal articles and books covering
European and American art from late antiquity to modern.
Use the TOUR feature to access an article full-text article
online or for information about print availability.
JSTOR
This full-text database covers topics in the humanities,
social sciences, and some of the sciences. This might be a particularly
useful resource to locate interdisciplinary works related to your topic.
Grove Art Online
This electronic version of the print reference resource is
fairly new to Trinity's collections. Here, you may find
brief biographical material on artists as well as other types
of entries. Note that most of these entries include a brief
bibliography at the end. These may be used as a jumping
off point to find further information about your topic.
Art Abstracts
Index that includes citations and abstracts of scholarly journal
articles covering all fields of art and art history.
Limited full-text access.
ARTstor
ARTstor provides an impressive database of over
500,000 searchable images.
Tools within the database enable viewing (or displaying)
slides side-by-side and collecting "folders" of images for
classroom use, research, or assignments. These works are copyright cleared for
educational and research purposes.
Books
Use Quest, the library catalog, to find books on your topic.
Your instructor or the assignment may require that you find
primary texts (which can include literary works, diaries,
speeches, letters, historical articles or essays,
autobiographies, transcribed interviews, brochures, pamphlets,
etc.) or secondary texts (commentary, either popular or
scholarly, drawing from primary sources). You can go
directly to the Quest catalog by clicking
HERE.
Most of the resources used by art and art history
students are located in the N call number range on the library's
4th floor.
Get It From Somewhere Else
If the library does not have the article,
book, or other item that you need to complete your assignments, you
can loan these items from other libraries. Do note that this
can take from several days to weeks, so planning is imperative.
Use
ILLiad to borrow items from other libraries.
Cite Your Sources
Articles, books, images, etc. should all receive a citation that
directs the reader to your source. For assistance, refer to the
library's pages for citing sources.
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