Gingrich Library: Painting I -- Fall 2017: Research Starter

The Assignent

Francis Bacon. Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X. 1953. oil on canvas. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa.

Before you start your research you should know what you are looking for. Consult the information shared by your faculty member:

A 15 minute group presentations on painting in the Medieval era, the Renaissance and Baroque periods, Surrealism, etc.

A good encyclopedia can provide beginning researchers with the following:

an overview of a topic and its various aspects
the vocabulary associated with the topic
the names of important people, companies or places,
a bibliography to lead to other relevant items on the topic, including major studies, books, articles and researchers.

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A biographical dictionary of artists [electronic resource]
Covering over 1300 artists, this dictionary is made up of alphabetically arranged entries for painters (such as Monet), architects (such as Aalto), and sculptors (such as Brancusi) from pre-Christian times to the present (see, for example, Berlin painter, Hockney). Each artist's entry includes dates, training, career, influences on his or her work, and, for approximately one-third of the artists, a bibliography of further reading.
Bloomsbury Guide to art [electronic resource]
Provides a fascinating insight into the origins and significance of the work of Western artists and architects. It includes tightly-focused entries on: individual artists (eg Salvador Dali); art, architecture and design terminology (eg Gothic); countries and their cultural significance (eg Art in France); theoretical concepts (eg formalism); and mythological and religious subjects and symbols (eg Christ).
Critical Terms for Art History
Essays cover a wide variety of "loaded" terms in the history of art, from sign to meaning, ritual to commodity. Each essay explains and comments on a single term, discussing the issues the term raises and putting the term into practice as an interpretive framework for a specific work of art.
North American women artists of the twentieth century a biographical dictionary / [electronic resource]
An illustrated reference that provides accurate, concise, and accessible biographical and bibliographic information on women artists from Canada, Mexico, and the US. Some 1,500 alphabetical entries cover widely recognized professional artists born before 1960 who work in a broad range of fields: painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, ceramics, fibers, metals, and performance art.
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists - Herbert Read; Nikos Stangos
A cross-referenced dictionary with coverage on artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements, including essential information on contemporary art and artists and on techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists.
Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms - Edward Lucie-Smith
Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, the decorative, applied and graphic arts from all periods throughout the world up to the present day: there is a table of the dynasties of Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, India and Japan.