Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Library session for ART 219 Northern Renaissance Art

Basics | Finding Facts | Finding Books | Finding Articles | Finding Images | Library Staff Contact Info

| Basics |

Library session web page, http://marquand.princeton.edu/art219.php

Princeton University Library web page, http://libweb.princeton.edu/

Library online catalog, http://catalog.princeton.edu/

Find Articles and Databases, http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php

| Finding Facts |

TIP #1: Facts can be found in both print and electronic sources. Web searching is fine, but remember that the library pays for more academic resources.

Thomas G. Bergin and Jennifer Speake, Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance. London : B.T. Batsford Ltd., c1987.
Marquand Library (SA) CB361 .B43 1987b

Irene Earls, Renaissance art : a topical dictionary. New York : Greenwood Press, c1987.
Marquand Library (SA): Reference N6370 .E27 1987

Grove Dictionary of Art
This good general resource includes biographies of both Western and non-Western artists, architects, patrons, critics, and collectors in addition to major entries on art styles, subjects, and media.

Craig Harbison, The art of the Northern Renaissance. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson ; produced by Calmann and King, 1995.
Firestone Library (F) N6370 .H26 1995b

James Snyder, Northern Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, the graphic arts from 1350 to 1575. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall ; New York : Abrams, 1985.
Marquand Library (SA) N6370 .S69q
Marquand Library (SA) Permanent Reserve (Temporarily Shelved at Marquand Library (SA): Reserve) N6370 .S69q

Wolfgang Stechow, Northern Renaissance art, 1400-1600 : sources and documents.Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1989.
Marquand Library (SA) N6370 .N67 1989
Marquand Library (SA): Permanent Reserve (Temporarily Shelved at Marquand Library (SA): Reserve) N6370 .N67 1989

| Finding Books |

TIP #1: You will not find articles in the online catalog, only journal titles. For articles look in databases like the Art Index or the Bibliography of the History of Art.

TIP #2: When doing keyword seaches you must use AND, OR, NOT logic. See below for details.

TIP #3: If Princeton doesn't have everything you need, search large online catalogs such as RLIN or WorldCat. You can request items through the Borrow Direct service or interlibrary loan.

Keyword Searching

Try to think of words that are specific to your topic (such as "durer" and criticism) and not too general (renaissance). Think of multiple ways to describe what you want. A keyword search requires Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) or quotes.

Use quotes for exact phrases

"northern renaissance"

Combine keywords to narrow your search

"art patronage" and germany
prints and netherlands and exhibitions
(sculpture and renaissance) not italy

You can also use truncation

sculpt? picks up words like "sculpture" and "sculptors"

Subject Searching

When you search by subject, you can search by a very broad concept (prints) to a very narrow one (exhibitions of 17th century Dutch prints). You must put your search words in a particular order, and you cannot use AND, OR, NOT.

art, renaissance -- europe, northern
sculptors -- france
art, dutch -- 16th century -- exhibitions
holbein
bruegel, pieter, ca. 1525-1569 -- criticism and interpretation

Note: the dashes (--) between words are to illustrate the subdivisions.

Limiting Searches

The "Set Limits" button takes you to a screen where you can set limits which will narrow your search results. These limits only work with keyword searches. They stay in effect for subsequent searches unless you clear them.

You can limit by:

Date (year item was published)
Language
Item type (such as archival collection or music score)
Medium (such as a soundrecording or visual material)
Location (a specific Princeton library)
Place of publication (country, US state, Canadian province)

| Finding Articles |

TIP #1: As in the main catalog, both keyword and subject searching will work in databases like Art Index.

TIP #2: To find the actual article in the library after finding the citation, you have to search the online catalog for the title of the journal. For instance, to find the following article:

M. Evans, "The Age of Van Eyck: The Mediterranean World and Early Netherlandish Painting 1430-1530." [Exhibit]. Apollo no. 492 (February 2003) p. 47-9.

Do a journal title search in the online catalog for Apollo.

TIP #3: Many databases support Find it @PUL, which searches for the article in full text sources and in our online catalog.

Art Index
Good, all purpose index to periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews. Covers all the arts, including architecture.

Bibliography of the History of Art
Contains records describing the current literature of art, including books, museum and exhibition catalogs, Festschriften, congress and symposium proceedings, dissertations. Very scholarly sources.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
An online bibliography covering relevant secondary material published since 1700 to the current year.

| Finding Images |

TIP #1: Use both print and electronic resources for finding images.

TIP #2: Often journal articles will contain images. Citations in Art Index will indicate if there are reproductions of plans, elevations, etc.

Almagest
Contains digitized images for study and class use, accessible throughout the campus.

Artcyclopedia
A commercial site useful for locating images.

ARTstor
Funded by a Mellon grant, includes more than 100,000 digital images of art works for the study of art, architecture, and other fields in the humanities. Princeton is one of several beta partners currently testing this resource.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online)
Online collection documenting more than 115,000 works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of the members of the Art Museum Image Consortium.

| Library Staff Contact Info |

Laurel Bliss, Assistant Librarian, lbliss@princeton.edu