"Art Supplies" by B_Zedan is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
Not sure where to start and need some ideas for research? Start with the Topics in Art & Art History page for a good foundation. The sources on this page will give you a general look at various topics, then the books and journals pages will provide tips for finding more specific sources. The web resources page provides links to various online organizations and image libraries.
Digital Art History
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Rembrandt, Vermeer, and the Gift in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art
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This book offers a new perspective on the art of the Dutch Golden Age by exploring the interaction between the gift's symbolic economy of reciprocity and obligation and the artistic culture of early modern Holland. Gifts of art were pervasive in seventeenth-century Europe and many Dutch artists, like their counterparts elsewhere, embraced gift giving to cultivate relations with patrons, art lovers, and other members of their social networks. Rembrandt also created distinctive works to function within a context of gift exchange, and both Rembrandt and Vermeer engaged the ethics of the gift to identify their creative labor as motivated by what contemporaries called a "love of art," not materialistic gain. In the merchant republic's vibrant market for art, networks of gift relations and the anti-economic rhetoric of the gift mingled with the growing dimension of commerce, revealing a unique chapter in the interconnected history of gift giving and art making.
These books can be found, by the call number indicated, in our Reference collection located on the 4th floor.
Biographical encyclopedia of artists
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The Dictionary of Art
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Encyclopedia of World Art
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Facts on File encyclopedia of art
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The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
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