Citation Guides: Chicago Style
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Purdue OWL: Chicago Manual
Citing Images
How to cite works of art and museum wall text:
1. Citing works of art
2. To cite wall text, exhibition labels, or other didactic information, use these examples as a guide:
- Wall text:
- As a footnote: Wall text, Name of Exhibition, Name of Museum, Museum Location, Dates
- example: Wall text, Splendore a Venezia, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC, October 12, 2013-January 19, 2014.
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- In your bibliography: Name of Museum. Wall text, Name of Exhibition, Museum Location, Date.
- example: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Wall text, Splendore a Venezia, Montreal, QC, October 12, 2013-January 19, 2014.
- Museum label:
- As a footnote: Museum label for Artist Name, Title of Artwork, Name of Museum, Museum Location, Date
- example: Museum label for Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2014
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- In your bibliography: Name of Museum. Museum label for Artist Name, Title of Artwork, Museum Location, Date. [Optional: include name of exhibition or other relevant information]
- example: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum label for Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid, New York, NY, 2014.
