Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
topic they are researching. They provide a head start for students as they begin their
research project.
RENAISSANCE
ART AND
ARTISTS
Most materials on Renaissance Art and
artists will be between 700 and 760 in both the
numbered and reference sections in the Media Center.
Some subject headings you can search for are:
Art, Renaissance
Renaissance Art
Art, Italian
Artists
Individual artists by name
(last name first)
Some titles we have are:
| 709 BAR |
Barter, James.
Artists of
the Renaissance. San Diego, CA : Lucent Books, 1999. |
| 709.02 COL |
Cole, Alison. Renaissance. New York : Dorling Kindersley, c1994. |
| 709.024 COR |
Corrain, Lucia.The Art of the Renaissance. 1st ed.-- New York : Peter Bedrick Books, 1997. |
| 709.024 SMA |
Smart, Alistair.
The
Renaissanceand Mannerism in Northern Europe and Spain : With 178 Illustrations. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. |
| 709.03 MAR |
Martindale, Andrew. Man and
the Renaissance.-- New York : McGraw-Hill, 1966. |
| 759.03 MAT |
Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr.
Western
European Painting of the Renaissance. Tudor, 1948. |
| 759.5 MIC |
Michelangelo/Titian. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1971. |
SELECTED WEB SITES
Selected 15th Century Renaissance
Art.
A page from the Web Gallery of Art. Excellent site that offers renaissance artists both north and
south, paintings and sculpture, and some information on the artist and his work.
16th Century Renaissance Art
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTH16thcentury.html
From the same source as the
previous site, but covering the 16th century.
Northern Renaissance ArtWeb
A collection of links for exploring the Renaissance of the North.
Atrchive
http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
A collection of some of the worlds most famous
artists, listed alphabetically, with excellent quality
images.
ARTCYCLOPEDIA
A fine arts search engine that can be search by artist’s name and leads to many valuable links to
museum and other art sites.
World Art Treasures: The
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation. Contains excellent images
of most of the major renaissance artists.
Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/
Information on the art, architecture, science,
politics, and religion of the Renaissance.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references. Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.
bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.
Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.
REMOTE ACCESS
They are
also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the
Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:
and enter your public library card
number (from Methuen or any MVLC member
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.
CITING SOURCES
- Using MLA Style to Cite and
Document Sources
www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
- OWL Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Works-Cited
Online tool to assist you in citing your sources easily and correctly in the MLA style format.
Using these links
indicates the user is leaving
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.
Edited by Media
Staff
11/17/08
Date last edited