Pierpont Morgan Library -- This is an exceptional resource. Choose Collections, then Medieval & Renaissance, then List. Select the image you wish to view. Click on the link to Corsair, the Morgan's online catalog. Included in the Corsair record is a link to a comprehensive bibliography on the manuscript
To use any of our indexes and databases (except our catalog and ConnectNY) from off campus, click here. Type in the number under the barcode on the back of your ID as the username. The password is library . You'll get an alphabetical list of our indexes and databases. Click on the title you want.
Spelling counts! A foreign title or artist, particularly from a culture that does not use the Roman alphabet, may have a couple of different alternate spellings. Make use of truncation and wildcards. If you know (or want to guess at) a couple of spellings, connect them with an 'or' Boolean operator.
Sometimes the only place you’ll find information about a contemporary artist is on the Web. If you’re googling for images and find some in the website of a gallery, make sure you check out the rest of the gallery’s website for information about the artist or titles of exhibition catalogs that you might then search for in our databases (catalog, ConnectNY and WorldCat).
Make sure you read the notes and bibliographies of the articles and books that you find. Our databases and indexes are limited temporally and in the number of periodicals they cover. The bibliographies and notes in books, reference sources (Oxford Art Online in particular) and journal articles will include sources outside the scope of our resources and, by seeing the same articles and authors mentioned again and again, will point you toward the important work in a field (something our indexes and databases do not indicate).
When you’ve found a subject heading in our catalog, or in ConnectNY that seems well-suited to your research, note it. You can use it in other databases like WorldCat or ProjectMUSE.
See the slide curator for images! She maintains the MDID image database as well as the good old fashioned slide collection.
Don’t forget to talk to your professor and to ask a librarian if you need help finding sources (or even if you just want to make sure you’ve covered all your bases).
Warnings:
Read everything critically, but especially scholarship that comes from unvetted sources, specifically Web sites. Scholarly publications like those found in JSTOR, and ProjectMUSE or in the [http://www.bard.edu/library/search/subject.php?subject=arth\art history] indexes listed on our websites publish articles that have been reviewed by experts. Anyone can put anything on a web site.
Wikipedia can be a great resource, but double check the information you get from it, and don’t include it in your bibliography. – it’s not the definitive kind of resource that, say, Oxford Art Online is.
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