Welcome to the course guide for Rishona Zimring's spring 2021 Gender Studies 300 class. This guide is designed to be a resource for students working on their Visual Culture Portfolio assignment. Please contact Erica with questions about using Artstor, finding other images, and more.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, The Vestal Virgin Tuccia, ca. 1555, oil on canvas, 152.5 x 86.9 cm. The National Gallery, London (accessed through the Gallery's digital collections: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giovanni-battista-moroni-the-vestal-virgin-tuccia).
Key Watzek Resources
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ArtstorA digital library of more than 2 million images across a variety of subjects, contributed by museums, artist estates, and a variety of institutions.
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Grove Art OnlineA searchable, regularly updated electronic version of Grove's Dictionary of Art, this is the key electronic reference source for visual art.
Activity for January 28, 2021
The group slideshow is now available through your course Moodle page, underneath the Visual Culture Portfolio assignment description.
Scanning
In some cases, the best way to obtain a copy of high-quality version of an image will be to scan it from a book (from Watzek, or obtained through Summit or interlibrary loan, etc.). Scanners are available in Watzek Library. The following document offers some surprisingly engaging guidance for ensuring a good scan.
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The Art of ScanningA downloadable "short treatise" from the University of Nebraska.
Visual Resources Librarian
