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Most professors of art history require that you use of the Chicago citation style to create bibliographies and footnotes. There is also a variant of Chicago known as the Turabian citation style that is used as well. Because citations direct your reader back to the work of scholarship you are using in your research, they will differ slightly depending on the type of research material you are working with. For example, an article in a book will include information about the publisher of the book, while an article in a journal will include the name of the journal and its volume and issue number. It is best to include as much information about the resources you are working with as possible so anyone who wishes to look at those resources will be able to find them.
Title: Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location of work: Private Collection
Captions are used to offer basic information to your reader about images you provide in your papers or digital projects. When captioning artwork you should include the location where the image was acquired.
Fig. 1. Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress, 1926. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Fig. 1. Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress, 1926. Oil on canvas. Wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Self_Portrait_in_a_Velvet_Dress.jpg
Fig. 1. Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress, 1926. Oil on canvas. In Title of Book, by AuthorFirst AuthorLast. City: Publisher, Date.
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