Practice Post #5 - Citing Other Sources

Academic Integrity

When you cite other sources (books, websites, magazines, other blogs) you need to always use:

• the author's name 
• and the title of the source (book title, article title, blog post title, website or webpage title).  

If you use the exact words from the source, you must put it into quotation marks.  Otherwise, you must put it into YOUR OWN WORDS.

Example:

Greek Footbath

I chose to research a beautiful bronze Greek footbath which is at the Metropolitcan Museum of Art in New York City.  It is beautiful and has an intricate design, and I can imagine using it!

According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/38.11.5a,b), this bronze footbath from Greece has a large, shallow bowl and "a delicate overhanging lip decorated with small beads and a pattern of narrow tongues around the outer edge."  This is from the late 5th or early 4th century, A.D.

Milne (1944), in her article, "A Greek Footbath in the Metropolitan Museum of Art" (http://www.jstor.org/stable/499216), writes that there are not many of these footbath around these days but that they "appear fairly often in vast paintings" (p. 26).  Therefore, this artifact is a priceless item that has survived since ancient times.

Milne notes that the bowl is separate from the base and can be removed.

Milne also shows evidence from other artwork (such as paintings on vases) and writings (such as stories in the Bible) that a footbath such as this one was used in both Greek and Roman times.

WORKS CITED

"Bronze footbath with stand [Greek] (38.11.5a,b)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/38.11.5a,b (April 2008)

"A Greek Footbath in the Metropolitan Museum of Art."

Marjorie J. Milne. American Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1944), pp. 26-63

Published by: Archaeological Institute of America

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/499216

Assignment

Please research Egyptian art, Grecian Art, Roman Art or Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Find one interesting piece of artwork and write a review of it for your blog post.  BE SURE TO CITE THE SOURCE (author/artist, website or article) and use quotation marks if you borrow the text.  Otherwise, please write the ideas IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

Title your blog post: Practice Blog Post #5