A very popular full-text journal database that might prove useful for this topic is Academic Search Elite . Archive goes back to about 1990. Search results flag journals held at Trexler Library. While such sites are not necessarily bad, they should be scrutinized. One way to screen web sites is to use a web directory as your search engine.
Web directories vary in restrictiveness, but all have some rating system for site inclusion.
A web directory that carefully selects the best web sites on a variety of topics is Librarian's Index to the Internet . There are also gateways and search engines specific to art, such as ArtSearch . A commercial site recommended for locating art online, searchable by artist or movement, is ArtCyclopedia , canvasing online collections from many different museums. Some museums provide research bibliographies for works in their collection. One such museum is the National Gallery of Art .