Guides: ARTH 430 Baroque and Rococo Art: Home

Welcome

This research guide will point you toward online research resources and strategies available to you as scholars doing literary research at Pepperdine.

Boucher, Francois. Madame de Pompadour, Mistress of Louis XV. 1758. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Web. 30 August 2013

ARTstor Images for Your Presentation

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi). The Musicians. ca. 1595. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ARTstor. Web 6 Aug. 2015.

Find images for your presentation or paper in the database, ARTstor. Log on to ARTstor, create a personal account and create an image group. Then view information on how to Export to Power Point

You can search ARTstor by the name of an art work, by geography, by classification (for example, architecture), or by collection (for example, Beyond the Taj). Use the Advanced Search to limit by date.

Helpful videos on using ARTstor can be found on YouTube

Getting Started

For background information, start with an exhaustive reference work such as Grove Art Online. Both the 'Guided Tour' and 'Tips for Users' (available from the Home page) provide useful information on searching Grove/Oxford Art Online.

Bibliographies located in books or at the end of journal articles can be very helpful. To learn if Pepperdine has access to a particular journal, search for the name of the journal in the library catalog, or use the 'Journals & Periodicals' search feature on the Library's Web site.

Finding Articles

Search these online databases to find articles on your topic/artist:

Art Full Text
Featuring full-text articles (from more than 300 journals), indexing and abstracting of an international array of publications,

Full-text articles from more than 300 periodicals dating back to 1995
High-quality indexing and abstracting of over 600 periodicals dating as far back as 1984, including 280 peer-reviewed journals
Indexing and abstracting of over 13,000 art dissertations
Indexing of nearly 200,000 art reproductions
JSTOR
Access to an extensive archive of journals in 30 subject disciplines in the Arts and Sciences, including the history and study of art and architecture. Pepperdine subscribes to the Arts & Science I, II, III; articles from other modules may be obtained by using InterLibrary Loan.
Academic Search Complete
Provides full text coverage to nearly 9,100 journals, including over 7,900 peer-reviewed titles in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education and more. Full-text coverage dates back to 1985 and is updated daily.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
The Getty Research Institute provides access to the BHA and to the Repertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site. The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
Access to nearly 3 million searchable citations. Full text for most dissertations since 1997 with 1.2 million full text dissertations available for download in PDF format. Approximately 70,000 new dissertations and theses are added each year. Coverage from 1743 to the present.More Info

Specialized Online Encyclopedias

Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
Contains over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures including hundreds of entries on the qualities and historical uses of materials, concise definitions on art forms and styles, and in-depth articles discussing the history of armor, jewelry, furniture, textiles, and ceramics.
Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques
Historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.

Coverage includes materials in art practice (e.g. ink, enamel, digital materials); materials in conservation (e.g. adhesives); classes of artifacts (e.g. wallpaper, mosaic, ceramic); techniques and methods (e.g. book binding, gilding, printing, weaving), terms (e.g. rustication), tools (e.g. easel, laser), theory (e.g. technical examination, conservation controversies), fakes & forgeries, and conservation theorists and practitioners.
Grove Encyclopedia of American Art (GEAA)
GEAA deals with all aspects of American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art. There are articles on all subject areas in American fine art including: biographies of major artists, architects and patrons, architecture, painting, new media, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art, new media art, art education, and more.

Watch Streaming Video

Caravaggio.
A film by Derek Jarman available on Kanopy Films

Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available, delivering almost 70,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.