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Credo is an online fullt text database of over 400 reference sources. You can search them all together to bring up a variety of articles related to a topic.
As you are starting to explore a new research topic, reference sources are a good way to gain background information on your topic. High quality, academic, multivolume sets, will often give you the beginnings of scholarly research on a subject by providing a short bibliography of important works on the subject.
Even with advanced subject knowledge of an area, you will run across unfamiliar people, places and events. Library reference sources will allow you to quickly fill in those gaps and improve your contextual knowledge with more reliability than a Wikipedia article.
Most of these titles are located in the reference section on the first floor of the library. Remember, you will be more likely to find information if you search for the topics that surround your image than if you search for your image specifically. To search for other reference titles, click here.
The Dictionary of Art by 
Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture by 
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography by 
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art by 
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation by 
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts by 
New Catholic Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance by 
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment by 
The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed. by 
