MALVERN CI LIBRARY
PATHFINDER
AVI3M – Visual Art
Art History Research
Ms Macintyre
January 2014
There are many resources where you can get information for your art history research presentation.
Open the Malvern Library web page (launch Explorer or on the Desktop  1358-Lib Folder).
This pathfinder is posted in the Red School House under Art.
A. Search Library Catalogue for Print Resources
Use subject keyword terms such as:
surrealism, fauvism, etc.
Write down the Call Nos. and search the shelves
(stacks) for the books.
Some of the books have been pulled out and are in the cart.
B.
Search Encyclopedias
- encyclopedias are always good places to begin your research

Brittanica Encyclopedia
- select High School and browse Western Painting
- explore Images & Videos
C.
Search eBooks
• eBooks (TDSB)
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- access Gale Virtual Reference Library
 Art
browse through the correct volume for the
appropriate era
D. Search Secondary Subjects

The Arts
 Metropolitan Museum of Art
- you can Search the Collection or go to Timeline of Art History
and search by artist (ex: Titian) or by painting (ex. Bacchus and Ariadne)
E.
Search the Internet
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Web Museum
http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/
1. Italian Renaissance Art
- http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/07.html
2. Renaissance Architecture
- http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/symmetry_sub.html
- http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/florence_sub2.html
3. Renaissance in Northern Europe
- http://www.flowofhistory.com/units/west/11/FC78
- http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/north_pavilion/
- http://vlib.iue.it/carrie/texts/carrie_books/gilbert/index.html
4. Mannerism
- http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/mannerism.html
- http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg21/gg21-main1.html
5. Baroque Painting
- http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/c/caravaggio.html
- http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/baroque/
6. Baroque Architecture
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1352473/Baroque-architecture
- http://www.pitt.edu/~tokerism/0040/syl/src1115.html
7. Rococo Painting
- http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/french18.shtm
- http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Rococo
10. Romanticism
- http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/realistic-impressions-investigating-movements-visual-arts
11. Realism
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm
12. Impressionism
- http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/
15. Fauvism
- http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html
16. Dada
- http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2006/dada/cities/index.shtm
17. Surrealism
- http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/surrealism/
For other websites, use Sweet Search.
• Sweet Search
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E.
a search engine for students, searches only 35,000
approved web sites. SweetSearch allows students to
choose the most relevant result from a list of credible
results, without the distraction of unreliable sites.
Cite your sources (ie. your references)
You must document your sources of information to give credit
to people for their ideas and works; otherwise, you are
plagiarizing.
The TDSB Research Guide is available online and provides
formats and examples of MLA (Modern Languages
Association) style of citation. It can be found on:

Malvern CI Library webpage  Research Toolkit
(Go to page 56 for example of Works Cited page
and 72 for format and examples of citation)
There are online citation creators which you can use:
 EasyBib (www.easybib.com)
 Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/index2.php)