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Medieval Art & Architecture

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Images & Manuscripts

This guide will provide resources for art and architecture from early Christianity to the 10th century.

Sources of Images



Images from Museum and Library Collections

Citing Images

Images or illustrations can enhance your papers and presentations. Like written sources, images also need to be properly cited. Always cite (give credit) where you found the image. Here are examples of the information needed.

A museum object
cerberus

Artist's Name (First and Last)
Title and Date
Museum Name and Location
Image Source and ID Number


Example:

Andokides Painter
Neck-Handled Amphora: Herakles & Cerberus, Ca. 510 B.C.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
ARTstor: UCSD_41822000405785

 

An image from ARTstor
geese

Title of the Work
Artist's Name (First and Last)
Date of the Work
Image Source
Date of Citation
Electronic Database


Example
:
Three Geese. Simon de Vlieger, c. 1600-1653.
The Illustrated Bartsch. Vol. 1, Netherlandish Artists.
[cited 22 October 2004].
In ARTstor [database online].

An image from a Web Site

haystacks

Title of the Work
Artist's Name (First and Last)
Date of the Work
Image Source
Date of Citation
World Wide Web Site


 

Example:
Haystacks. (Effect of Snow and Sun) Claude Monet. 1891. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [cited 5 June 2008]

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_29.100.109.jpg