Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Library session for ART 440 Seminar in Renaissance Art

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

| Basics |

Library session web page, http://marquand.princeton.edu/art440.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

Concise encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance, edited by J.R. Hale. London : Thames and Hudson, 1981.
Marquand Library (SA) N6915 .C75

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.

International dictionary of art and artists with a forward by Cecil Gould ; editor, James Vinson. Chicago : St. James Press, c1990.
Marquand Library (SA): Reference, N40 .I57

| 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 "botticelli" 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

"lorenzo the magnificent"

Combine keywords to narrow your search

"art patronage" and florence
history and "venetian painting"
(sculpture and renaissance) not rome

You can also use truncation

architect? picks up words like "architects" and "architectural"

Subject Searching

When you search by subject, you can search by a very broad concept (mannerism) to a very narrow one (exhibitions of Donatello's "Judith and Holophernes"). You must put your search words in a particular order, and you cannot use AND, OR, NOT.

mannerism
art -- renaissance -- italy
painting -- early renaissance -- italy -- florence
sculptors -- italy
ghirlandaio
donatello 1386-1466 -- judith and holofernes -- exhibitions

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:

David Hemsoll, "Simone Martini's St John the Evangelist re-examined: a panel from an early portable triptych." Apollo (London, England) v. 147 (February 1998), p. 3-10.

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.

Historical Abstracts
Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology and allied fields. Coverage includes all languages in which these materials are published.

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

Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes over 1,100 arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Provides access to articles, book reviews, letters, notes, corrections, and editorials. The database may be searched for articles that cite a known author or work.

| Finding Dissertations |

TIP #1: US dissertations published since 1997 are available in full text through Proquest Digital Dissertations.

TIP #2: Pre-1997 dissertations can be requested through interlibrary loan.

Proquest Digital Dissertations
The database includes citations to dissertations from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Citations for dissertations and master's theses published from 1980 forward have abstracts.

Foreign Doctoral Dissertations
The Center for Research Libraries has more than 750,000 uncataloged foreign doctoral dissertations, of which approximately 20,000 are included in this database. If you do not find the title you need, search the CRL catalog.

| Finding Images |

TIP #1: Often journal articles will contain images. Citations in Art Index will indicate if there are reproductions of plans, elevations, etc.

TIP #2: Marquand has two scanners (reserved for Marquand materials) where you may scan images from books and articles. These digital images can be emailed, saved to the H drive, burned to a CD, and printed.

TIP #3: Museum websites can be excellent sources of digital images, if you know which museum owns the artwork you are interested in. Consult a select list of museums.

List of Image Collections
Lists selected image collections, including image projects created at Princeton.

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

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.

Artcyclopedia
A commercial site useful for locating images.

| Library Staff Contact Info |

Laurel Bliss, Assistant Librarian, lbliss@princeton.edu