Getting Started - ART 332 - Renaissance Art / Saravo, Joseph - James P. Adams Library at James P. Adams Library

Petrus Christus
Portrait of a Carthusian, 1446
Source: The Met

Welcome

Welcome to the library course guide for Renaissance Art.

This guide contains links to article databases and other sources of information for research in Art History. If you have questions about how to search for information using the resources listed in this guide, please contact the subject librarian for Art, Amy Barlow (abarlow@ric.edu), or schedule a virtual research appointment using the link in the menu to the left.

Starting Points for Art Research

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online is the gateway to Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. It Includes over 200,000 specialized articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images of works of art, structures, plans, and artist signatures.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline
Chronological, geographical, and thematic tour of global art history

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Art History This link opens in a new window
Topic introductions and extensive bibliographies written by scholars in the field.

Encyclopedias by Title

Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art / James Hall
Here in a single volume are combined religious, classical, and historical themes, the figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry that established themselves through paintings and sculpture in Western art before and after the Renaissance.
Hutchinson Dictionary of Symbols in Art
This ebook explains many symbols and people that appear in all eras of art.
The Catholic Encyclopedia
The Catholic Encyclopedia was written in 1917 by the Catholic Church. It contains many articles on different aspects of church dogma, history, and people. It is authoritative on dogma and liturgy, but should be considered a potentially biased source for historical or biographical content.
A companion to Renaissance and Baroque art
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art presents a comprehensive collection of interdisciplinary essays that address major aspects of European visual arts produced from approximately 1300 to 1700, a period of artistic flourishing that many consider the beginning of modern history.