ARTH 204/645 Medieval Art and Architecture

For the purpose of this guide, the time period is 500 CE to 1500 CE.

Sources for Background Information

Guides and Handbooks

• A Guide to Mediaeval Antiquities and Objects of Later Date
  NK480 L6 B75 (Ref)
• Art History
  N5300 S924 2002 (Ref) v. 1
• Art in the Christian World 300-1500: A Handbook of Styles and Forms
  N7832 A78 1982 (Ref)

Encyclopaedias Dictionaries, Glossaries

• Dictionary of Art - Oxford Art online
  (includes Grove Art Online)
• Dictionnaire des miniaturistes du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance dans les differentes contrees de l’Europe
  N7616 A4 1969 (Ref)
• Dictionnaire des sculpteurs français du Moyen Age
  NB552 B4 1992 (Ref)
• Dictionnaire d'iconographie romane
  N7825 T47 1996 (Ref)
• Glossary of Medieval Art & Architecture online
• Medieval Art: A Topical Dictionary
  N7850 R67 1996 (Ref)
• The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopaedia
  CB351 M565 1989b (Ref)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
  DF521 O93 1991 (Ref) v. 1-3

Finding Journal Articles

Search first in these Art History databases. You may also wish to search this specialized database:

• ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  Contains citations for secondary source material about the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, 400-1700.

Other Resources

Citation Guides

• Chicago Manual of Style

Image Resources

Images and Reproductions of Art Works

Internet Sites

• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
• ICMA (International Center of Medieval Art)
  Promotes the study of the visual arts of the Middle Ages in Europe during the period between ca. 300 and ca. 1500 C.E.
  Provides links for valuable resources including dissertations (click on 'Census of Dissertations').

Writing Resources

• A Short Guide to Writing about Art
  N7476 B37 2008(Ref)
• Writing about Art
  N7476 S29 2006(Ref)
• Writing Tools (McGill Library)

Biographical Dictionaries and Biographical Information

• A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists, with Reference to Their Works, and Notices of Their Patrons, from the Establishment of Christianity to the Eighteenth Century
  ND2890 B8 (Ref) v. 1-3
• Artist Biographies Master Index
  N40 A78 1986 (Ref)
• Benezit. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d’écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers
  N40 B47 1976 (Ref) t. 1-14
• Havlice. Index to Artistic Biography
  N40 H38 (Ref)
• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (includes Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon)
  A world biographical dictionary of artists. Includes, as nearly as possible, all known painters, sculptors, engravers, architects, and decorative artists. Signed articles by outstanding scholars, long bibliographies. Locations of works of art frequently given. Numerous cross-references.

Bibliography

• From Justinian to Charlemagne: European Art, 565-787: An Annotated Bibliography
  Z5933.2 N44 1985 (Ref)
• Medieval Christian Literary Imagery: A Guide to Interpretation
• Stained Glass Before 1540: An Annotated Bibliography
  Z5956 G5C38 1983 (Ref)