BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Most individual works of art do not have entire books written about them.  Try searching Pegasus by the artist’s name for a book on his/her works, or use other information about the work to broaden your search to find books (on, for example, the time period or century, region or culture, medium, movement, subject, and/or institution housing the work) that might discuss the work. EXAMPLES: Title   Ophelia   Artist John Everett Millais Period 19th century Region England, Europe Medium Painting Movement Pre-Raphaelitism Subject   Shakespeare in art; Women in art Location Tate Gallery, London     Title   Great Buddha of Kamakura (a.k.a. Daibutsu or Amida Buddha) Artist   Period Kamakura Region Japan, Asia Medium Sculpture Movement   Subject   Amitabha; Buddhist gods in art; Pure Land Buddhism Location Kotokuin Alternatively, search for an article on the specific artwork, since articles tend to be more focused on narrower topics than books.

REFERENCE SOURCES

*Selected* examples of resources used in traditional approaches to art research, such as iconography, provenance, and connoisseurship. Index of Christian Art       Iconographic index of records about works of early Christian, Byzantine, and medieval art before 1400. Includes bibliographic citations for books and articles as well as references to reproductions and some links to images. For more information on subjects and symbolism in art, consult an iconography dictionary. Keywords for searching Pegasus: themes, motives; symbolism in art. Getty Provenance Index       Free web resource, with indexes to archival documents (especially inventories), sales catalogs and their contents, and paintings in public collections with provenance information. Provenance information may also be found in exhibition catalogs, collection catalogs, auction/sales catalogs, and catalogues raisonnés. Keywords for searching Pegasus: provenance, inventories. The Classified Directory of Artists' Signatures, Symbols & Monograms Art Reference N45.C36 1982       Additional resources on artists' signatures and monograms can also be found in the N45 call number section. Oxford Art Online       Information on major works of art may be found within topical or biographical entries. For better results, choose full text search and type double quotation marks around phrases.

Oxford Art Online is a gateway to Grove Art Online, the definitive encyclopedia for all aspects of the visual arts, available in print as the Dictionary of Art (Art Reference Blue N31.D5 1996), The Oxford Companion to Western Art (Art Reference Blue N33.O923 2001), a dictionary covering painting, sculpture, graphic arts and artists, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, covering the classical period through today, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, listing 1,800 entries on art terms, critical periods, and styles in the visual arts.

AUCTION AND SALES INDEXES

Arts Library staff cannot provide appraisals or endorse commercial appraisal services, but researchers may consult auction and sales indexes in the Art Reference Green section to estimate the approximate monetary value of works of art. To find auction catalogs, search SCIPIO for the UCSB Libraries' holdings. The most recent five years of Sotheby's and Christie's are housed at the end of the Art Exhibition Catalog collection; earlier catalogs are stored off-site and may be requested by filling out the annex request form. Knoedler retrospective sales catalogs are available on microfiche in the Art Reference Room. More information about auction and sales indexes can be found at New York Public Library Research Guide: Auction Sales Indexes. Keywords for searching Pegasus: prices; sales catalog; art auctions; art as an investment; collectors and collecting; expertising.