Hello! This course guide has been created for students enrolled in Professor Schwab's art history course, AHST 1001 Exploring Art History: Technology and Art. In this guide, you will find several resources intended to help with your research coursework.
Below is a description of the pages found in the menu above:
Research librarians are available to help you! See the box on this page for the various ways to get help.OR contact the librarian who led your research session, Lisa Thornell, Head of Library Outreach & Communications, to set up an in-person or virtual research appointment at lthornell@fairfield.edu
Examples:
If I want to find out information about a Greek or Egyptian mythological figure, I would probably start with the subject matter and symbolism tab, and possibly also check the historical context tab afterwards.
If I want to learn about sculpting techniques or how a piece of jewelry was made, I would look under the style and function tab first.
No more than two students may sign up to work on one object. Object choices are in the Fairfield University Art Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Attic Red-figure psykter, warriors riding dolphins, attributed to Oltos, Gallery 154 (Greek)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/255946
Wall painting, Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, Gallery 164 (Roman)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247010
Artist’s gridded sketch of head of Senemut, Gallery 116 (Egypt)
Byzantine floor mosaic fragment with Personification of Ktisis, Gallery 301 (Medieval-Byzantine)
Reliquary casket with scenes from the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket, Gallery 304 (Medieval)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/464490
Fairfield University Art Museum:
Mosaic with Personification of Agora
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/portfolio?records=20&query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2287%22&sort=0
Wax Tablet and Stylus from Dura-Europas
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2285%22&sort=0&page=4
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2285%22&sort=0&page=3
Ostrakon with a Homily by Athanasius
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2281%22&sort=0&page=11
Byzantine Medallion with St. Nicholas
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2281%22&sort=0&page=12
Horus
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2285%22&sort=0&page=3
Greek Attic Red-figure Hydria fragment
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2285%22&sort=0&page=15
Roman Glass Jug with Dionysiac Symbols
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2285%22&sort=0&page=12
Greek Tetradrachm of Alexander III
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2282%22&sort=0&page=3
Sestertius of Nero
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2282%22&sort=0&page=9
Amazonomachy Frieze, Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2215%22&sort=0&page=48
Decree for an Alliance between Athens and Kios in the Bosphorus
Historic plaster cast
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2215%22&sort=0&page=7
Chariot Race with Apobates
https://embark.fairfield.edu/objects-1/info?query=Portfolios%20%3D%20%2215%22&sort=0&page=62
Title: Dionysus on ship with dolphins, interior of an Attic black-figure kylix
By: Exekias
Retrived from: ARTstor