ENG 271: Ovid's Gods, Nymphs, & Monsters
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- Ovid and Visual Representation
Orpheus and Eurydice
Detail from 'Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld'
by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, 1861. Image courtesy Wikicommons
F&M Library Image Source
- ARTstor Digital Library This link opens in a new windowAn image database featuring images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is the most comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else. Create an account to download images.
Google Image Search
- Google Image SearchSearch Google Image Search for one of Ovid's myths, e.g. orpheus and eurydice. On the results page, click on Tools, then on Usage rights--select Labeled for non-commercial reuse.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Met: Open Access ArtworksThe Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world. Enjoy more than 375,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the collection, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.
National Gallery of Art
- NGA ImagesA repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. Search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 51,000 open access digital images are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
The MLA Style Guide
- The MLA Style Guide via the Purdue Online Writing Lab/OWLOn this page, select from the MLA Works Cited menu: Electronic Sources and Other Common Sources. These pages offer citation examples for images found online, YouTube videos, photographic reproductions of artwork, etc.
• To cite a video game in MLA,
consult this site.
• To cite an opera, ballet and other
performances in MLA, consult this site.
⇒ Note: Just be certain your citation features the core
identifying elements of the source!