Welcome to World History 10 students! This page will help you complete your Art History Renaissance Assignment, using "The 100+ Most Important Artworks of the Renaissance".

                                        Good luck!
                                        Miss Dearden & Ms. Lindsay

P. S. Remember: all information is NOT created equal.

---

Background information

• You can use Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga/hu/. for information to include in your proposal to Ms. Dearden.

• You can use Art and Architecture http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk, from the Courtauld Institute of Art for information to include in your proposal to Ms. Dearden.

Click on Gale eBooks to access the ebooks Renaissance: An Encyclopedia for Students and Arts and Humanities Throughout the Eras for background information on your artist.

How do you find information in Encyclopedia Britannica? See Photo and the web page (or the 3:16 min. movie).

A scholarly art, architecture, or art history book.

• History of Art by H. W. Janson,
• History of Architecture by Sir Banister Fletcher,
• Art History by Marilyn Stokstad, and
• A History of Art (2 vols.) by Fredrick Hartt

are all on the reserve shelf, along with other suitable sources for this project. Please keep all books on the Reserve shelf so that the entire class can access them at all times.

A scholarly article you locate using EBSCO

Check the library's magazine page magazines.html for detailed information about EBSCO.

See Ms. Dearden's assignment sheet for hints on searching.

A scholarly online resource

Try Art History Resources on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/

If/When you use Google, include site:.edu or other Google Operators GoogleTips.html in your search to increase your chances of finding a reliable, reputable, scholarly source.

Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pages_needing_attention/Modern_history to see why you should NOT cite Wikipedia itself for this project. However, Wikipedia does maintain (usually) excellent links (at the bottom of the pages), and their Wikimedia Commons is a good place to find copyright-free photos (to which the photographer must still be given credit).

What is correct bibliographic format? Follow:

• Miss Dearden's Samples for Citations or
• The Chicago Manual of Style Citation Guide from Ohio State University Libraries
  http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php