Dome of the Rock circa 687-691 From Artstor. Image provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.
For background information, start with an exhaustive reference work such as Grove Art Online. Both the 'Guided Tour' and 'Tools and Resources' (available from the Home page) provide useful information on searching Grove/Oxford Art Online. The Oxford Companion to Western Art edited by Hugh Brigstocke is also part of Oxford Art Online.
To place art and architecture in context, consult Art and Humanities Through the Eras
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 'Access Databases and E-Journals' search feature on the Library's Web site.
Jocho, (Heian period). Amida Nyorai: detail of Buddha image seated on lotus. wood, covered with gold leaf. Byodo-in, Phoenix Hall, Kyoto. Data From: Art Images for College Teaching. Available from Artstor.
van Eyck, Jan. Portrait of Margareta van Eyck. 1439. Musea Brugge-Groeningemuseum [Groeninge Museum] ARTstor. Web 6 Aug. 2015
The best place to find images for your presentation is 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 UTube
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