Theatre 352: Set Design II
Image Research for Le Nozze di Figaro
Fall 2003-Edward Check
Reference Contact: Barbara Polowy x2941

GETTING STARTED

Art & Archaeology Library Subject Page
Links to resources covering a wide variety of art and architecture topics (some resources are available only to members of the Smith College community).

Landscape Studies Subject Page.
Links to a resources in a broad range of disciplines including the arts, environmental science, and social sciences.

How to Find, Use, and Evaluate Images
Sources for finding images in print and electronic sources, information about evaluating the quality of the images and data about them, and legal considerations for using images in educational settings, in publications and other public presentations.

REFERENCE SOURCES

Art Reference N31.D5 1996 and Groveart.com, the online version
The Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
The dictionary has an extensive survey article about Spain which includes interesting "related articles" links and excellent articles on individual architects, painters, etc.Also consult articles about the artistic climate in 18th-century Spain during the reigns of Charles III and Charles IV. Each article is supplemented by a bibliography of major primary and secondary sources.

Art Reference SB450.95 .E52 2001
Encyclopedia of Gardens: History and Design. Edited by Candice A.
Shoemaker. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

Art Reference NK1165 .E48 1997
Encyclopedia of Interior Design. Edited by Joanna Banham.London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.

LIBRARY HOLDINGS

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. Useful subject headings for finding illustrations in books and catalogs for this assignment are:

• Architecture--Spain | Architecture--Modern--17th-18th Centuries
  Architecture, Baroque--Spain | Architecture, Rococo
  Castles | Palaces
  Ribera, Pedro de, 1681-1742 | Villanueva, Juan de, 1739-1811
• Gardens | Landscape Architecture
  Garden Structures | Garden Ornaments and Furniture
  Pavilions | Follies (Architecture)
• Interior Decoration | Interior Architecture
  Decoration and Ornament, Rococo | Furniture
• Festivals | Festivals in art
• Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788 | Charles IV, King of Spain, 1748-1819
• Art, Spanish -- 18th century | Art, Rococo
• Goya, Francisco, 1746-1828 | Paret y Alcazar, Luis, 1746-1799
• Eighteenth Century
  

Art Library Browsing Guide

Click here for a guide to the subject arrangement of the books, catalogs, and other resources in Hillyer Art Library. Areas of particular interest for this asssignment are:

• DP199 -- Spain and Portugal (History, Georgraphy, etc.)
• N6420 to N6449 -- 18th century art, Rococo
  N7103 to N7105 -- Spanish Art
• NA590 -- Baroque and Rococo Architecture
  NA1040 to NA1053 -- French Architecture
  NA1100 to NA1124 -- Italian Architecture
  NA1300 to NA 1313 -- Spanish Architecture
• NK 1700 to NK3505 -- Interior design and decoraton
• SB451 to SB485-- Gardens, landscape gardening, parks and public reservations
  

DIGITAL IMAGE RESOURCES

Find Images
Links to electronic sources of images of all types--works of art, news photos, other illustrations.

Insight Database the database including over 100,000 images from AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium), digital reproductions of numerous objects from the Mortimer Rare Book Room and the Smith College Museum of Art, and more than 5,000 images used for teaching and study from the Department of Art Image Collections. Insight is accessible only on the Smith campus.

Gallica.
Sponsored by the Bibliotheque National de France. The section called "Iconographie, monnaies et pierres gravées: Fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France" is of particular note for this assignment.

Corbis
Commerical picture agency. A good source for excellent contemporary photographs of Spain -- buildings, landscape, people.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

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

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