The Archangel Gabriel ca. 1490 (early Renaissance) Luca Signorelli Oil on panel Walters Art Museum
Featured Resources
Art & Architecture SourceIndexes and abstracts articles in visual arts periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. In addition to articles, Art Source indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Art Sources includes the contents of Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective.
Oxford Art Online (including Grove Art)Includes 30,000 articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts. Searchable images are from organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as 40,000 editorially selected image links to museums and galleries, which provide essential visual support for art history scholarship. Also includes access to the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
This tutorial will walk students through the basics of the research process, from coming up with avenues to explore from a central topic to focusing down that topic and generating keywords to search with. The examples used will be focused around art historical subjects, but should be applicable to most subjects.
