Course-Related Guide:
Early Renaissance Art in Italy, 1300-1485
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.
Art Abstracts
Index that includes citations and abstracts of scholarly journal
articles covering all fields of art and art history.
Limited full-text access.
Arts
& Humanities Search
This resource indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals and it
indexes selected articles from social science and science journals. It Indexes
articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.
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.
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 link to access an article full-text article
online or for information about print availability.
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.
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 Items From Another Library
If the library does not have the article,
book, or other item that you need to complete your assignments, you
can borrow these items from other libraries. Do note that this
can take from several days to weeks, so planning is imperative.
Use
ILLiad to receive items from other libraries.
Cite Your Sources
Articles, books, images, etc. should all receive a citation that
directs the reader to your source. If you are constructing a
limited number of sources, refer to the
library's pages for citing sources.
For projects involving more extensive research,
use the library's online bibliographic citation management
software,
RefWorks.
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