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Library Intensive Web PagePrepared by Darwin F. ScottAssistant Director for Research and Instruction,
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This course surveys the movements in painting and sculpture from the French Revolution through the periods of Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism.
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Brandeis Research Guides for Art, Architecture, and Photography
Basic Electronic Resources for Researching 19th-Century European Art History
QuickStart Guide: Art, Architecture & Photography
Provides links to the most commonly used resources for art history research, both electronic and print.
Guide to Research in Art, Architecture & Photography
More extensive guide to the best resources to use for art history research, both electronic and print, divided by topics.
Use Basic LOUIS for locating titles, authors, or artists already known to you.
Use Advanced LOUIS for searching keywords.
Subject analysis of topic for effective keyword searching: who--what--where--when
To find useful books (or articles) that focus on topics beyond a particular artist yet include this artist within the theme of the book, an analysis of terms associate with your artist can provide powerful keywords for searching.
This analysis should include (as appropriate): a particular group that included the artist (school, race, gender, etc.); the particular medium (painting, sculpture, etc.); the geographical location and nationality, both nouns and adjectives (from broad, such as continent, to narrow, such as city); and time period (both century and descriptive name).
Click here for a Web page devoted specifically to this topic.
Electronic, full-text version of the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, with continuous updating of content and thousands of image links to art works.
Provides detailed and often extremely important articles not only for artists (such as David, Goya, Houdon, Turner, Constable, Delacroix, Daumier, Courbet, Degas, Seurat, and van Gogh, among many), but also under terms and styles (for example, 19th-century classicism, romanticism, 19th-century landscape painting, Orientalism, Barbizon School, Impressionism, and Symbolism) and countries and regions (such as France, Spain, England, and Germany).
The articles on countries break down into subsections that variously address the 19th century, such as:
Explore Grove Art Online"
The Explore Grove Art Online feature offers a unique way to create customized browse lists from over 45,000 articles in Grove Art Online. By selecting from one or more of the five major subject categories of Art and Art Forms, Geography, People, Styles and Cultures, and Time Periods, and then an array of subtopics, you can create very detailed lists of articles that meet your specific criteria.
Example: To see articles related to French 19th-century woman painters, you would make the following selections:
Art and art forms > Paintings and drawings
Geography > Europe > France
People > Women Artists, Architects and Craftsmen
Time Period > 1800-1900
Always begin a research project with a thorough search of this essential resource.
Enter artist's name into search box -- click go.
Select article on artist from the results list.
After article appears, click on Image Links at the left of the task bar (under Grove Art Online).
Links to individual artworks are found under Works, arranged in alphabetical order by the holding institution (use "find in this page" [ctrl+F] to search).
Note: when clicked, the links connect directly with the museum or image site in a new window.
Search for citations (with abstracts) to articles in a wide variety of art journals published from 1984 on.
Use the 
button to locate an electronic or print copy of an article.
Search for citations (with abstracts) to articles in academic art journals, articles within collections of essays (conference proceedings, festschrifts, etc.), and academic books covering topics in art history, from 1975 to the present.
Use the button to locate an electronic or print copy of an article.
A journal article database for ALL subjects; includes citations for many art journals and full-text for some.
Coverage is very current--particularly useful for locating information on current or recent exhibitions, trendy or controversial topics, articles in newspapers such as the New York Times, etc.
In searches, put quotes around expressions such as "Museum of Modern Art" or "New York."
Full text articles available directly from this resource have 
HTML Full Text and/or 
PDF Full Text under the citation.
For citations only, use the button to locate an electronic or print copy of an article.
Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of hundreds of scholarly journal titles from most disciplines to the recent 2-5 years.
Click the following links to see current lists of art and architecture journals now in JSTOR:
Before searching, be sure to check Art & Art History under SELECT DISCIPLINES OR JOURNALS. (This includes the architecture titles as well.) To include art-related articles in history journals, you may also want to check off History.
Outstanding interdisciplinary resource for locating articles on art Europe, Asian, African, and Latin America published in non-art journals.
Use the button to locate an electronic or print copy of an article.
Combine with America: History and Life (see above) by selecting "World history including US and Canada" in the pull-down menu of the search box.
Use this resource locate the full-text of reviews or feature articles in newspapers, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, or Boston Globe.
The coverage is extremely current.
The searching interface recently changed significantly; here is the best way to find art reviews and feature articles:
For most searches, select the GENERAL (default) option in the red task bar (for reviews and feature articles); only use NEWS for a discovery, theft, obituary, or other newsworthy item.
For most searches, the Easy Search option (the default) is sufficient; the Power Search option requires more complex search formatting, but also allows more powerful drilling down to specific newspapers or other sources.
Tips for formatting searches in Easy Search
Use key terms from the title of the exhibition and the museum holding the exhibition.
"And" is always assumed between search words (renoir impressionism = renoir AND impressionism).
Use quotation marks around phrases ("barcelona and modernity"; "metropolitan museum").
If you know the name of the exact source you want to search, include its name in quotes in the search box ("new york times"; "washington post".
For "Search Within", use the default "Major U.S. and World Publications".
To see the publications searched, click on the "i".
The default date range is two years; click the drop-down box for narrower or wider ranges.
A combined (union) catalog for most of the libraries in the United States and many foreign libraries as well.
The best way to find books and journals not at Brandeis. Use the "Libraries" button in the full record of a particular item to locate libraries in the Boston area that have the book or journal.
You can request ILL (interlibrary loan) directly from a WorldCat record by clicking on the button.
A vast collection of images and related data covering many time periods and cultures. Documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Sources include museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.
You must turn off pop-up blockers for image zooming to work.
See also Grove Art Online above.
Use the guidelines in the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style to format all footnotes and bibliographies:
The Chicago Manual of Style Online (complete text)
Examples of basic forms from The Chicago Manual of Style
There are numerous ways to cite an online encyclopedia, and specifically, an article in Grove Art Online. Here are the forms I recommend.
A signed article with one author for the entire article:
Footnote:
Sarah Whitaker Peters, "O'Keeffe, Georgia," Grove Art Online (2004), http://www.groveart.com (accessed 7 September 2007). [Note: unrevised article.]
Franklin Kelly, "Hudson River School (rev. 27 September 1999), Grove Art Online, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 7 September 2007). [Note: revised article]
Bibliography:
Wicks, Ann Barrott, " Literati" (rev. 30 April 2002), sec. V ("Painting"), 4 ("Painters and Institutions"), ii of "China." Grove Art Online, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 7 September 2005 ). [Note: revised article]
Kelly, Franklin. " Hudson River School" (rev. 27 September 1999). Grove Art Online, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 7 September 2007). [Note: revised article]
A signed article, person is author of a portion of the article:
Footnote:
Ann Barrott Wicks, "Literati" (rev. 30 April 2002), sec. V ("Painting"), 4 ("Painters and Institutions"), ii of "China," Grove Art Online, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 7 September 2005). [Note: revised article]
Bibliography:
Wicks, Ann Barrott, " Literati" (rev. 30 April 2002), sec. V ("Painting"), 4 ("Painters and Institutions"), ii of "China." Grove Art Online, http://www.groveart.com (accessed 7 September 2007). [Note: revised article]
Citing an Exhibition Catalog
Bibliography example:
Shackelford, George T. M. and Claire Fréches-Thory. Gauguin Tahiti. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2004. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin Tahiti," organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibition held September 30 2003-January 19, 2004 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on February 29-June 20, 2004. (Based on The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed.)
Footnote example:
George T. M. Shackelford and Claire Fréches-Thory, Gauguin Tahiti (Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2004), p. 43. [Note: this truncated bibliographic data is only possible if you have a full citation in the bibliography at the end of your paper.]
Writing Guides
Sylvan Barnet: A Short Guide to Writing about Art, 7th ed. (Longman, 2003).
Creative Arts Reference: N 7476 .B37 2003
Henry M. Sayre: A Short Guide to Writing about Art, 4th ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002).
Creative Arts Reference: N 7476 .S29 2002
