4.  ART HISTORY PAPERS AND THESES: ILLUSTRATIONS:  

  or how to treat figures (illustrations) in your text, on the figure plate, and in your list of illustrations.  

  REFERENCES:   

  Barnett, Sylvan, A Short Guide to Writing about Art. Boston, Toronto: Little Brown and Company 1981.

  TEXT:

  In your text the citation is brief, and the following form is usual:

Artist, Title, date, (Fig. number)....

Figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear/are introduced in your written text. Once       a figure has been cited, if it is cited again pages later, it still retains its original figure number.  Figures cannot jump around.  There is never an occasion when Fig.1 can be followed by Fig. 15 and then jump back to Fig. 4.

  Correct citation in text:

     Manet's Olympia, 1863, (Fig. 1). . . .

  ON THE FIGURE PLATE: YOU MUST ALSO CAPTION YOUR ILLUSTRATIONS....

  THIS FORM MUST BE FOLLOWED, THE CAPTION MUST APPEAR UNDER THE ILLUSTRATION:

         Fig. 1. Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. oil on canvas, 51 x 74 3/4". Louvre, Paris.

  "Captions ... include artist (or for anonymous works, the culture), title, date, medium, size (height precedes width), and present location." See examples in Barnett 96.

  IN LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:

Fig. 1. Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863. Oil on canvas, 51 x 74 3/4". Louvre, Paris.

                                (Robert Rosenblum and W.H. Janson, 19th-Century Art)