LibGuides: TC 302: Roman Art & Society / Taylor: Background information (good for learning more about your objects)

More about your object from the Blanton or SAMA

Images (don't forget to cite your images!):

DASE (Digital Archive Services) Collection This link opens in a new window
If you chose something from the Blanton, there may be an image kept here. If not, representations of your subject in Roman Art may be here as well. And in ArtStor, below.
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ARTstor This link opens in a new window
High quality images ready for your visual analysis.
Updated regularly. Comprised of over 2.5 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Designed to be used by researchers in fields that do not traditionally use images as well as by art historians.
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Articles:

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
How was your subject represented in Roman art?
Updated daily. Provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with annual additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links.
Covers the artistic traditions of the world's leading cultures, countries, cities, towns, and regions as well as important archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings. Includes over 45,000 signed articles on every aspect of the visual arts from prehistory through the present as well as over 40,000 web links to important art images in galleries and museums around the world. Both the fine arts (painting, sculpture, and architecture) and the decorative arts (ceramics, textiles, jewellery, interior design, furniture, glass, metalwork, and more) are included.
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Oxford Classical Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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An authoritative reference to all aspects of the ancient world. Offers, across the whole range of the study of the ancient world, both information presented in a form accessible to non-specialists and factual material and bibliographies detailed and specific enough for specialist. Covers literature, art, philosophy, law, biography, mythology, science, geography, daily life, and broad cultural and historical trends.