Renaissance Art
General Information
Text Book
Print Sources
Databases - Encyclopedia Articles
A word about Wikipedia:
Great for gaining background knowledge, images, ideas, keywords, checking for additional sources
Avoid using this a a source of evidence for your projects
Print Sources:
Use the Media Center catalog
First do simple searches for the time period (i.e. Renaissance or Reformation). Unless the event, artifact, person is prominent (i.e Mona Lisa, Chemistry, Galileo) there will probably not be an entire book devoted to the topic.
When you find a book on this time period you can look in the index.
Databases:
Keep your search simple - one or two words
Ebooks:
If the search feature does not work look at the table of contents or index
Internet:
Web of Art Gallery (when citing from this website do not use the URL finder in easybib - cite manually)
Museum websites
College/university History or Science Dept. Websites
History.com (although has a lot of ads)
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