ARH315: Studies in Roman Art,
At Home in Pompeii
Spring 2008 - Barbara Kellum
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

GETTING STARTED

Art & Architecture & Classics Library Subject Pages
These pages provide links to online resources covering a wide variety of topics (some available only to members of the Smith College community).

Oxford Reference Online
Access to Oxford University Press's series of reference dictionaries and companions, including Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, language dictionaries, and literary sources.

Specific Sites: Descriptive, Pictorial & Bibliographical Information

Oversize DG70.P7 H38 (Restricted Circulation -- art library use only)
Hauser in Pompeji. [10] vols. Tubingen: E. Wasmuth, 1984- .

DG70.P7 P57 1981 (Restricted Circulation -- art library use only)
Pitture e Pavimenti di Pompei. 3 vols. Roma: Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Istituto centrale per il catalogo e la documentazione, 1981-1986.

Open Reserves DG70.P7 P65 1990 (Restricted Circulation -- art library use only)
Pompei: Pitture e Mosaici. [10] vols. Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1990- .

Iconographic & Literary Sources

Crane, Gregory R. (Ed.). The Perseus Project. Online. Tufts University. Established 1995. Available: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/. February 6, 2008.
Perseus is a collection of digital resources on Archaic and Classical Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology as well as Latin texts and tools.

Art Reference BL715 .G713 1986
Grimal, Pierre. The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Art Reference N7760 .L49 1981
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 9 vols. Zurich: Artemis, 1981-1999

Art Reference PA3623 - PA6968 (near the current periodical shelves)
Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Art Reference DE5 .O9 1999
The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
The 3rd, revised edition (2003) is available at Neilson Reference DE5 .O9 2003.

Useful subject headings for library catalog searches are:
[building name] (Pompeii), for example: Casa dei Vettii (Pompeii); House of Menander (Pompeii)
Pompeii (Extinct City) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct City)
Interior Architecture -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct City)
Interior Decoration -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct City)
Mural painting and decoration, Greco-Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii

Five College Library Catalog
The online catalog provides access to the combined library holdings of Smith, Amherst, Hampshire, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

WorldCat
WorldCat is universal in subject scope and includes records for over 41 million items held in thousands of libraries throughout the United States and Europe. It is an excellent source for developing a bibliography and verifying citations. It is updated daily. To request items found in Worldcat through Smith's Interlibrary Loan Service, plan ahead and allow at least two weeks for delivery.

FINDING PERIODICAL ARTICLES & OTHER ANALYTICS

Use indexing and abstracting services to find periodical articles, analytics of collected works such as Festschriften, conference proceedings, and anthologies, as well as monographic publications--book, exhibition catalogs, and other works.

Arts and Humanities Index
Indexes 1,300 journals covering all arts and humanities disciplines. The database of almost 2.1 million records includes materials published from 1980 to the present. The only humanities resource that provides citation searching, i.e. makes it possible for the user to identify publications citing an author or a specific work. Updated weekly.

Art Abstracts and Art Index Retrospective
These two databases cover all aspects of the visual arts, providing cover to cover indexing of over 400 periodicals published throughout the world. They provide access to articles, exhibition reviews, and reproductions. Art Abstracts covers 1984 to the present, Art Index Retrospective covers 1929 to 1984. Art Abstracts is updated monthly and abstracts are provided for records added after 1994.
Useful subject headings for Art Abstracts searches are:
[building name] (Pompeii), for example, House of the Faun (Pompeii)
Pompeii (Ancient City) | Houses -- Rome
Mosaics, Pompeian | Mural Painting and Decoration, Pompeian

DYABOLA: RealKatalog DAI Rom
DYABOLA: RealKatalog DAI Rom is an electronic version of Archäologische Bibliographie, the subject and alphabetic catalogs of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and the standard bibliography of material on classical art and archaeology. It provides regular access to over 1,100 journals and series and includes citations to books and essays in Festschriften and other collections published throughout the world. Hillyer holdings of the printed index are 1932 to 1993 (Storage Art Periodical Z5132 .A67). The electronic form covers 1956 to the present and is updated annually.

L'Année Philologique
Covers all aspects of classical studies, including art and history in periodicals, conference proceedings, and other publications issued from 1959 to present. Help provides tips on search strategy and interpreting results.

CITATION FORMATS FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIES & NOTES

Style Manuals & Citation Guides. Smith College Libraries. January 25, 2008.
Links to online versions MLA, Chicago, and other popular manuals for writing papers, preparing manuscripts, and formatting footnote and bibliography citations.

Art Reference Z253 .U69 2003 Online Edition
The Chicago Manual of Style. 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Completely searchable online version of this important style manual, providing quick answers to style, editing, and citation format questions (for print and electronic sources).

Neilson Reference Desk PN171 .F56 W35 2006
Walker, Janice R., and Todd Taylor. The Columbia Guide to Online Style. 2nd ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
"Presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources."

CONTACT THE ART LIBRARIAN

Contact Barbara Polowy, Head of the Hillyer Art Library and instructor for your library session: bpolowy@email.smith.edu, 121 Hillyer Art Library, X2941.

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