The Renaissance: Art & Architecture Day Time Date Professor Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani) Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on wood, 1483-90

Library Resources Find books, videos… Library Catalog http://library.gmu.edu Find articles (Research Databases) Art Full Text JSTOR Project Muse Bibliography of History of Art

Italian Renaissance Sculpture David by Verrocchio David by Donatello Pietà by Michelangelo Virgin and Child by Della Robbia

Suggested Search Terms Sculpture, Renaissance Sculpture, Italian (geography) Material used: terracotta, marble, bronze… Bronzes, Renaissance Bronzes, Italian Marble sculpture Artist name Verrocchio, Andrea del Michelangelo Buonarroti Time period: Sculpture, Italian/15th century Christian art and symbolism Iconography, Renaissance Artists and patrons

witches in the North Renaissance 3. Search the Research Databases for a more detailed search. (Ex: Dürer and Witches) In JSTOR: “The Witches of Dürer and Hans Baldung Grien” by Margaret A. Sullivan in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Summer, 2000), pp. 333-401 1. You come across an image searching Google & want to find out more. The Four Witches (1497) by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 2. Enter Dürer as a keyword search in the Library Catalog. Find Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: The Genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf (Köln; London: Taschen, 2006)

Women in Portrait Paintings A Young Lady of Fashion, Paolo Uccello Early 1460s, Oil on wood Ginevra de' Benci Leonardo da Vinci c. 1474/1478 Side Profile Three-Quarter Profile Search terms:

Looking at Just One Painting? Search terms: The Magdalene Reading By Rogier van der Weyden Before 1438, Oil on mahogany You won’t always be able to search by the name of the artwork. Think of different ways to approach the search.

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Suggested Journals *Articles allow for more detailed searching. They also don’t take as long to publish as books

Websites The Art of Renaissance Europe (from Metropolitan Museum of Art ) http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/publications/renaissance.htm Can view entire book as part of museum’s teacher-training program A Journey through the Renaissance (from Think Quest) http://library.thinkquest.org/C005356/index2.htm Christian Iconography (from Augusta State University) http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography European Art in the Renaissance (from Metropolitan Museum of Art ) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/st_european_art.htm Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe (from The Getty Museum) http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/flemish/home.html Investigating the Renaissance (from Harvard University) http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance Examines material aspects of 3 Netherlandish paintings using digital imaging

Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist (from Museum of Science, Boston) http://www.mos.org/leonardo/index.html Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (from PBS Channel) http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/index.html Northern European Painting in the 15th-16th Century (from National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/euro15.shtm Picture Gallery, Kunsthistorisches Museum (from Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria) http://www.khm.at/homeE3.html Covers 15th & 16th century Netherlands Renaissance Art (from Sweet Briar College) …in Italy http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html …in Northern Europe and Spain http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceeurope.html More Websites

Still more Websites Italian Painting of the 15th Century (from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ita15.shtm Online Tours—Painting in Siena in the 14th & Early 15th Centuries The Early Renaissance in Florence Portrait Painting in Florence in the Later 1400s Patrons and Artists in Late 15th-Century Florence Siena in the 1400s Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance In-Depth Studies—Revelations from Reproductions: Fifteenth-century Italian Paintings Streaming Slideshow—Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi: The Adoration of the Magi

Tips for searching (for books, Articles, websites…) Start with a general keyword search to see which subject headings work best. Try to think of different terms to describe your topic. Subject headings in the catalog are also links. Click on them to see what else you get.

Other Helpful Hints See writing guides for art history: Writing the Art History Paper (Dartmouth College) http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/arthistory.shtml Art History Writing Guide (Wesleyan University) http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/departments/arha.html Writing for Art History (Univ. of North Carolina - Chapel Hill) http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/arthistory.html