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ART 101: History of Art: Prehistoric to Gothic (Quiros-Loudoun)

This guide has been created by librarians at NOVA to help you find books, articles, and other types of resources related to your assignment. Direct comments to Julie Combs, jcombs@nvcc.edu.

Websites

Search Google for your topic keywords. Look for government, education, and/or organization webpages as well as news/magazine publications. Be cautious if using Wikipedia as the content cannot be verified.

Google Web Search

Before using information found on a webpage, consider the following criteria to evaluate its credibility.

  • Who is the author?
  • What are his/her qualifications?
  • Why was the website created?
  • When was it last updated?
  • How reliable is the information?

For further guidance, please refer to NOVA Libraries' How to...Evaluate Websites research guide.

Museum Websites

Though it may be tempting to just do a search in Google or Wikipedia for your artist and their work, solid sources for background information on your topic may be found on a museum website. These museums employ art historians whose job it is to research the artists and movements owned and exhibited by the museum. This means that the information found on these websites is of good quality and would be considered reputable. Listed below are two examples of reputable websites.