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Art History

This guide will help you in your research and writing for Art History. You will find databases, journals, books, where to find images, cite images and approved Web links.

Chicago Image & Artwork Citations

Art & Design disciplines frequently use the Chicago Manual Style of Citation for their research & writing.  Pay close attention to how the bibliographic entries, footnotes/ endnotes, & captions differ from each other.

Image Dürer, Albrect. Melancholia I. 1514. Engraving on copper. 239 x 168 mm.      Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Bibliographic entry – general
Dürer, Albrect. Melancholia I. 1514. Engraving on copper. 239 x 168 mm.
     Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Footnote/endnote – general
 1.   Albrect Dürer, Melancholia I, 1514. Engraving on copper, 239 x 168 mm.,
     Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Caption – general
(*note: captions can be done as figure, fig., illustration, or ill.)

Fig. 1: Albrect Dürer, Melancholia I, 1514. Engraving on copper, 239 x 168 mm., Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany.

Chicago Website Citation

Image Corot, Camille. Ravine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.

 

Bibliographic entry – online (websites or databases)
Corot, CamilleRavine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in.,
     High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
     https://www.high.org/collections/ravine-in-the-morvan-near-lormes/, accessed
     27 Aug. 2018.

Footnote/endnote – online (websites or databases)
 1.  Camille Corot, Ravine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in., High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.

Caption – online (websites or databases)
Illustration. 1: Camille CorotRavine in the Morvan, 1840 - 1845. Oil on canvas, 18 x 18 3/4 in.High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.https://www.high.org/collections/ravine-in-the-morvan-near-lormes/

Chicago Giving Credit Citation

You must give credit for images used with copyright restrictions and those that do not have any restrictions.

 

Images with Copyright Restrictions:

image Mississippi State University Libraries, Bully Sitting in a Chair (Starkville, MS: University Archives. Special Collections Department. Mississippi State University Libraries) S_3377 © no date, by Mississippi State University Libraries.

Reproduced with permission from Mississippi State University Libraries, Bully Sitting in a Chair (Starkville, MS: University Archives. Special Collections Department. Mississippi State University Libraries) S_3377 © no date, by Mississippi State University Libraries.

 

Images without Copyright Restrictions:


Image Jasper the Plott Hound, 2011. Courtesy of Corinne Kennedy. Photograph courtesy by Lisa Gaedtka.


Fig. 1. Jasper the Plott Hound, 2011. Courtesy of Corinne Kennedy. Photograph courtesy by Lisa Gaedtka.

Chicago Images from Books and E-Books

 

Images in a Book:

Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893.  Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, National Gallery, Oslo Norway.

Bibliographic entry 

Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893.  Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, National Gallery, Oslo Norway. In Modern Art, 3rd ed. by Sam Hunter, John Jacobs, and Daniel Wheeler, (New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 2000) 47.  

Footnote/endnote 
 1.   Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893.  Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, Tempura on cardboard, National Gallery, Oslo Norway, in Modern Art, 3rd ed. by Sam Hunter, John Jacobs, and Daniel Wheeler, 47.  New York, NY: Prentice Hall, 2000.  

Caption

Fig. 1 Munch, Edvard. The Scream, 1893.  Casein on paper, 85 x 65 cm, National Gallery, Oslo Norway.


Images in an E-Book

Bibliographic entry – e-book

Monet, Claude. The Beach at Sainte-Andresse, 1867.  Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 102.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.  In The Beach at Sainte-Adresse from Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw 1-6. Chicago, IL:  Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.  Accessed April 13, 2023, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vjqpmr.1.

 

Footnote/ Endnote

1. Claude Monet, The Beach at Sainte-Andresse, 1867.  Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 102.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, in The Beach at Sainte-Adresse from Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Chicago, IL:  Art Institute of Chicago, 2014) 1-6.  Accessed April 13, 2023, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vjqpmr.1.

 

Caption

The Beach at Sainte-Andresse, 1867.  Oil on canvas, 75.8 x 102.5 cm, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.  

Chicago Images from a print journals and e-journal

Villa Zeno - Casalto architectural plan by Palladio

Bibliographic entry – Journal Article

Johansen, John M. "Palladio, a Rocky Connecticut Hillside, the New Structural Technology: A House in Fairfield County, Conn.," Architectural Record 118 (December 1955): 152-157.

Footnote/endnote – Journal Article

1.   Palladio, Villa Zeno —Casalto, architectural drawing, ca. 1550’s, (Cessalto, Italy), reproduced in John M. Johansen, "Palladio, a Rocky Connecticut Hillside, the New Structural Technology: A House in Fairfield County, Conn.," Architectural Record 118 (December 1955): 152, illustration. 

Caption – Journal Article

Ill. 1 Palladio' Villa Zeno —Casalto, architectural drawing, ca. 1550’s, (Cessalto, Italy), reproduced in John M. Johansen, "Palladio, a Rocky Connecticut Hillside, the New Structural Technology: A House in Fairfield County, Conn.," Architectural Record 118 (December 1955): 152.

 

E-Journal

Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Fruit Dish, 1879-1880. Oil on canvas, 46x55cm.  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

 

Bibliography

Viraben, Hadrien. “Mechanisms of Canonisation Through Exposure: Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879-80) on the Parisian Art Scene at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century.” Oxford Art Journal 42, no. 1 (2019): 4. Doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcy028.

Footnote/ Endnotes

1.     Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Fruit Dish, 1879-1880. Oil on canvas, 46x55cm.  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, reproduced in by Hadrien Viraben, “Mechanisms of Canonisation Through Exposure: Paul Cézanne’s Still Life with Fruit Dish (1879-80) on the Parisian Art Scene at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century” Oxford Art Journal 42, no. 1 (2019): 4. Doi: 10.1093/oxartj/kcy028.

Caption

Fig. 1 Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Fruit Dish, 1879-1880. Oil on canvas, 46x55cm.  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.