Get Started: Suggested Resources for Renaissance Art Research
This page is a short list of our most recommended tools for finding resources about Renaissance and Early Modern art and architecture. You can find more specialized tools in the tabs menu.
Find Background Information
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYCCreated by the Metropolitan Museum of art, this resource includes timelines, thematic essays, and illustrative examples of artwork from the museum collection.
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Introduction to Renaissance Art - SmarthistoryThis website is a nice academic guide to Renaissance art. It covers the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy, Northern Europe, and Spain.
Find Scholarly Journal Articles
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Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowOffers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications. Areas covered include advertising art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, computers in art, crafts, decorative arts, fashion design, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, Interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-Western art, painting, photography, pottery, sculpture, television, textiles, video.
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BHA & RILA (Bibliography of the History of Art and Répertoire de la Litterature de l'Art) This link opens in a new window
BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) and RILA (Répertoire de la Litterature de l'Art) index and abstract art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs and periodical articles in many languages with an emphasis on European art from the medieval through modern periods.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
Find Images
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ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a database of images from museums, artists, libraries, colleges and universities, scholars, private collections, and photo archives available for teaching, education, and scholarship, with all images cleared for educational use.
Find Books
You can use the BU Libraries Search box to look for print and electronic resources available through the Boston University Libraries. These resources include print books and journals available in the library stacks, as well as e-books and full-text journal articles.
If we don't have the book you want, you can also request to have one delivered to you from another library using Interlibrary Loan.
Find Primary Sources
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EuropeanaEuropeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for.
