Start your research by exploring the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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In the boxes below you'll see our suggestions for resources you can use to better understand the topic you have chosen to research for your class.
Librarians call these types of sources background sources because they are sources that are written to give readers who don't know anything about a topic information to help them get started with their research.
In the video below, I show you how to use two of the background sources we often recommend for art history students: your course textbook and Grove Art Online. The video is close captioned.
Here are some of the library's online reference resources which can help you get some background information on your topic. These resources are available on and off campus.
Here are some reference books that are located in the library's Reference area. Although they cannot be checked out, students are able to photocopy pages.
Art in World History (Full Color Edition) by 
Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists by 
The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
Larousse Encyclopedia of Byzantine and Medieval Art by Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistoric and Ancient Art: Art and Mankind
The Oxford Companion to Art by 
The Oxford Dictionary of Art by