Research Guides: ARTH 001C: Making Art History (SC): Home

Research help is available!

This Research Guide will point you to databases, books, primary sources, and other resources that may be useful for your project. Also, feel free to contact a librarian for personalized assistance with your research.

Here are some things that the Swarthmore librarians can help you with:

Finding information (scholarly articles and books, multimedia)
Searching specific databases
Improving your search skills
Citing sources and creating a bibliography
Organizing your research (including using Zotero or Endnote)

Background on Art History and the Renaissance

These reference works offer reliable background information on art history. Check the reference lists at the end of relevant entries for citations to books, articles, and other materials on your topic.

Oxford Art Online
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Oxford Art Online is an art reference library that searches Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. This resource contains images, biographies, subject entries, and thematic timelines (antiquity to present).
Oxford Bibliographies in Art History
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Provides expert recommendations, with explanatory blurbs, for important works from books to articles to websites to databases. Covers a wide range of topics, monuments, artists, and more.