Subject Guides: Baroque Art: Home

Video guides to research by Kelly Cannon

Getting started (2:24)
A review of the assignment, and selecting a topic.
Finding background information in books (6:08)
This video discusses using Encompass Search to locate scholarly background information on artists and periods.
Locating mention of specific artworks in journal articles and books (9:25)
Using Google Scholar and Google Books to locate mention of specific artworks.

Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, updated regularly and covering global art and architecture from prehistory to present day. Includes peer-reviewed articles contributed by over 7,000 scholars from around the world, accompanied by images, bibliographies, and links to additional resources.

Encompass Search
Encompass Search searches for books and other resources, first in our own library, and then beyond, in other research libraries.

Books (monographs, collected essays, exhibition catalogs):

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Index and selected full text from art periodicals, 1929-present. Full text journals include Architects' Journal, Art Bulletin, and Art Journal.

Google Scholar
May be used in conjunction with interlibrary loan. Access to full text is maximized by searching from the Muhlenberg network.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A substantive archive of about 3,000 full text scholarly journals plus scholarly books in the arts, humanities, social sciences and biological sciences. As an archive, there is typically a lag time of 3-5 years from publication until new issues appear in JSTOR. Journals include core titles from a variety of disciplines: history, economics, biology, and more.

For tips on citing print and electronic sources, visit Trexler Library's Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources.

Or visit the Online Writing Lab at Purdue.

For automated citation, try the shareware Zotero. Directions for installing Zotero here.

For help with annotated bibliographies, visit Purdue's Online Writing Lab for definitions and format of an annotation.

Articles and books not found in Trexler Library can be ordered on interlibrary loan.