Research Resources
Last updated July 2008
LISTS OF LINKS
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- Art webgraphie: Répertoire des ressources en histoire de l'art de la Renaissance à nos jours (maintained by Anne-Marie Bogaert-Damin, through Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin [BUMP], Namur, Belgium)
- Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources (Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- ArtSource (Mary Molinaro)
- The Art History Network
- Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Mother of All Art History Links Pages (Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan), with sections devoted to:
- Art on the Web (Jeffery Howe, Boston College)
- CODART list of museums with significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art (the Instituut Collectie Nederland)
- Art History Index, through World Wide Art Resources
- Art History (Yahoo list)
- Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library
- Architecture and Building Web Resources (Jeanne Brown, Architecture Studies Library, University of Nevada Las Vegas)
- Architecture Web Sites (maintained by Prof. Jeffery Howe, Boston College)
- Aesthetics and Visual Culture (lists of links provided by Bruce B. Janz)
IMAGE RESOURCES (slides, photographs, digital images, film, video)
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- State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (unofficial site with images of most of the museum's collection of paintings)
- Museum area (alphabetical listing of many artists of various nationalities and a selection of their works, through Russian Paintings)
- Courtauld Colour Slide Scheme
- Corsair: Images from the Pierpoint Morgan Library's Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
- Prometheus - Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung & Lehre e.V.
- Alinari, Florence, with an on-line digital catalogue of 50,000 pictures for research and study and selected by leading university professors in Italy and Europe
- AKG: Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, mit über 9 Millionen Bildern das historische Universalarchiv in Europa
- ICCD: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Ministero per i Beni e le Attivata Culturali (Italy)
- The Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives, over 30000 large-format colour transparencies covering fine arts, archaeology, religion, landscapes, historical places and portraits of historical personalities
- Archivision, the image resource for architecture, landscapes, public art and design (slides and digital files)
- The Bridgeman Art Library, London (source of art images for publication)
- Photographs of Archaeological Sites, through Peter Langer, Associated Media Group
- The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) (part of the Arts & Humanities Data Service - AHDS) providing, preserving and promoting quality digital resources for the visual arts
- Image Provider Directory (maintained by Don Beetham)
- The Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art
- Art on Film Online
- Stock Video (Large selection of royalty-free high definition stock footage. Preview each clip online)
- Internet ArtResources (a gateway to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions)
- Art Resource, New York
- Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (represents the copyright & intellectual property interests of the world's foremost artists)
- Scholars Resource, Freeport, Maine (high quality digital images for teaching art history), comprising Saskia, Ltd, Davis Art Images, and Hartill Art Associates. Browse by
- Universal Color Slide, with an Online Catalog
- American Library Color Slide Company
- Art on File (images of art, architecture and design)
- WorldArt Web Kiosk, a searchable image database of almost 19,000 images from throughout the world (Kathleen Cohen)
- Corbis Corporation (commercial site for stock photography and digital images)
- Foto Search Stock Photography and Footage (commercial site)
- Travel Photo Base World Image Collection (commercial site)
- AnthroArcheArt.org (a large selection of royalty free digital images for purchase)
- artdoc.de: Image Library for Contemporary Art (Roman Mensing)
- ArchArt, art and archaeology images (Giovanni Lattanzi) with a Main Index and links to:
- ArtOnLine
- History of Art: A Resource of Images for Support of Instruction (Dr. Chris Henige. The site includes images from his personal collection, as well as images he took of objects in the permanent collections of the Wright Museum of Art and Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College)
- Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), with links to:
- WorldImages, almost 50,000 images, global in coverage, includes all areas of visual imagery
- Africa-related images, including Ancient Egypt (African Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
- Olga's Gallery, organized by:
- Clearinghouse of Image Database Information (University of Arizona)
- Digital Art Collections (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
- DIVA,
Digital Images from the Visual Arts Library, Monash University, Australia
- Artchive (Mark Harden)
- Collage, a searchable image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London, including a link to Highlights of the Collections
- Surveys of Art History (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Western Art and Architecture (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Buildings and Structures, through Cupola (Howard Partridge), with links to:
- Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from Greece to Post-Modernism (Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio), with links to images through
- The WebMuseum, Paris (North Carolina mirror site)
- The Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures
- Paintings - Directory.com (Victor Reny)
- Fine Art Menu (Bert Christensen)
- PopArt.com, a databank and inventory of Pop Art on the internet
ARTISTS
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- Distinguished Artists, an alphabetical listing of over 500 deceased American artists (through Traditional Fine Art Online, Inc.)
- Visual Artists Index (World Wide Arts Resources)
- Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet (John Malyon)
- artpx.com (Bernard Huyvaert), with links to:
- Renaissance to Modern Artists, through Carol Gerten's Fine Art, A Virtual Museum (North Carolina mirror site: check out the mirror nearest you), with links to:
- European Paintings Gallery, from the early Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century (The Matthiesen Gallery, London, and the Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery, New York)
- Web Gallery of Art (created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
- Index of Artists (through the WebMuseum, Paris)
- Images from the Fine Art Collection, Special Collections, California State University Library
IMAGE FINDERS
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VISUAL RESOURCES, NETWORKS AND PROJECTS
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RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY
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- Bridgeman Education, providing access to the visual culture of every civilization from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and every period from prehistoric times to the present
- An Introductory Guide to Research in Modern and Contemporary Art ( prepared by Benjamin Lima)
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- The Material Renaissance: Costs and Consumption in Italy, 1300-1650 (a collaborative research project, University of Sussex)
- The Site for Research on William Hogarth (1697-1764), including a bibliography (Bernd Krysmanski)
- KunstbuchAnzeiger (books in German on art, design, architecture, photography)
- fotobibliografica, a virtual bibliography of monographs on key photographers of the past century (Claudio Vanin)
- Provincetown Artist Registry
- Artists' Papers Register (a location register of papers and primary sources relating to artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom)
- Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (CKD), Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
- Palau de la Música Catalana (The Barcelona Music Hall, 1906). A methodological approach to interpreting the building, by Frederic Chordà (in Catalan)
- ArtLex dictionary of visual art (Michael Delahunt), including longer articles on the following topics
- Art History: A Preliminary Handbook (Robert Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
- Writing About Art (Marjorie Munsterberg, The City College of New York)
- Yahoo's Art History Subject Listing
- Words of Art: An On-Line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts: A through Z (Robert Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
- intute: art and humanities
- Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece (Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Tufts University) - Art and Archaeology, which access to:
- The Beazley Archive (University of Oxford)
- The National Art Library, London: a research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Visual Arts, a searchable database of Russian art and artists (through From Russia with Art)
- Russian Art (George Mitrevski, Auburn University)
- The Medici Archive Project, focusing on the Archive of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1537-1743), housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, Italy
- Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik (Universität zu Köln, Archäologisches Institut)
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison), including links to
- Electronic Facsimiles - Digitized texts from the University of Wisconsin Libraries and the Chipstone Foundation
- Documents - Primary Sources, Journals, and more
- Images - Chipstone images, image databases, virtual exhibits
- Resources - Associations, libraries and archives, museums, guides, directories, dictionaries and more
- The JOCONDE Database: Catalogue des Collections des Musés de France: Archéologie, beaux-arts, arts décoratifs, ethnologie, histoire, sciences et techniques
- Direction des Musées de France Catalogue collectif des bibliothèques des musées nationaux (the union catalogue of the libraries of the French national museums, which includes 24 libraries specializing in art and archaeology. The database is available free and already gives access to some 170,000 records for monographs, serials and CD-Roms, in a wide range of languages. More is being added )
- NICE Paintings: The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (an inventory of all the 22,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings in public collections in the UK, created by the National Inventory Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow)
- Digital Archive of Art, Online images from Boston College (Jeffery Howe), with links to:
- All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (over 5000 paintings accessible through a Dutch language search engine: click on Zoeken = Search. Vervaardiger = Artist)
- The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive (Ohio State University)
- The Costume Gallery (Online Research Library for fashion and costume, maintained by Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier)
- La Couturiére Parisienne (period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century)
- Costume History (through The Costumer's Manifesto, maintained by Tara Maginnis, University of Alaska Fairbanks), providing links to
- The Index of Christian Art, Princeton. The Index of Christian Art is available online on a subscription basis.
- Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (surveys, interprets and records the built heritage of Wales)
- FACIT (part of the U.S. General Services Administration)
- Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame)
- The Vatican Library
- The Canadian Architectural Archives
- CoOL: Conservation OnLine, Resources for Conservation Professionals
- Conceptual and Intermedia Arts Online (CIAO)
- The Warburg Institute, London
- Corsair, the online catalog of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
- Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz
- Dutch University Institute for Art History, IUO, DUIA, NIKI, Florence
- Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome
- Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Vienna
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
- Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
- Deutsche Kunsthistorische Institute und Institutionen
- Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität, Bonn
- Kunstgeschichte-Online.com
- The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) focuses on Western and particularly Dutch visual art from the Late Middle Ages to the present day
- Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität, Zurich
- Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich/Lausanne
- Villa I Tatti, Florence (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
- International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)
- Art History: Resources in France (many links to museums, libraries, etc.)
- CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
- The Getty
- International Directory of Art Libraries (through International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA))
- The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
BOOKS, REVIEWS, DISSERTATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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Books
- Find That Art Book (many links to publishers, on-line stores, video distributors specializing in books and videos about art)
- Andrew D. Washton Books on the Fine Arts (Specialists in scholarly, out-of-print and rare books on the arts of the early Middle Ages to the mid-19th century)
- Davaco Publishers (16th and 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Art)
- George Braziller, New York
- Michael Shamansky, Bookseller (searchable database of books available)
- SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs, through Research Libraries Group (RLG)
- Lugt's Répertoire online (online edition of the Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques by Frits Lugt - subscription only)
- Casalini Libri, general Italian book dealers, Fiesole (Firenze), Italy
- Ars Libri, Ltd, rare and scholarly books on the fine arts, with a searchable database
- Worldwide Books Online, with a searchable database for International museum and gallery catalogues published from the 1960s to the present, and American trade and university press art books published since 1992, including forthcoming titles
- Maremagnum Librorum, Antique, secondhand and out of print books
- Russell R. duPont, Bookseller, Books, Prints, Ephemera & Art
- Librairie Lardanchet (Thierry Meaudre), Books on Fine Arts
- Arts of India Catalogue, including Books on Art History published in India (Vedams Books International, New Delhi, India)
- Vietnam Art Books (a Montreal-based publisher with the close support of U.S., Canadian and Vietnam artists and educators)
Reviews
- CAA Reviews, an online peer review of new books relevant to the fields of art history
- Kunstform: Rezensionsjournal zur Kunstgeschichte
- sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften
Dissertations
- ProQuest Digital Dissertations
- UMI's Online Dissertation Services
Bibliographies
- The Literature of Art by
E. H. Gombrich, with a Supplement (translated from the German by Max Marmor), Arts Library, Yale University
- The Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliographies (bibliographies of people who have spoken at the University of California, Irvine), including
- Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), through Research Libraries Group (RLG)
- Researching Your Art Object (Jeffrey Weideman's Reference Bibliographies)
- Karla Huebner's Feminist Art History Bibliography
- Retrospektive Tendenzen in der bildenden Kunst (14.-16. Jahrhundert): Auswahlbibliographie (Klaus Graf)
- International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography by Alexander C. T. Geppert, Jean Coffey and Tammy Lau
- Nexus Virtual Library, an annotated bibliography of research references in architecture and mathematics (through Nexus Network Journal, an online research resource for studies in architecture and mathematics edited by Kim Williams)
ONLINE JOURNAL AND PERIODICAL SEARCHES
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Journals
- Burlington Magazine (Contents only)
- American Art, the online edition of the journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artforum
- Nexus Network Journal, a peer-reviewed online research resource for studies in architecture and mathematics (Kim Williams)
- Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, a journal of nineteenth-century visual culture
- n.paradoxa, an international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices
- TRANS> arts.cultures.media, a bilingual cultural publication with a focus in the visual arts
- Images re-vues, revue en ligne d'histoire de l'art (beginning April 2005)
- PART, a journal of art history and visuality (Art History Department at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York)
- Resource Library Magazine, America's Magazine for the Representational Arts (through Traditional Fine Art Online, Inc.)
- fineArt forum
- Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal
- Cosmopolis (English edition) (Louis Gerber www.cosmopolis.ch Switzerland)
- Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art (Contents only)
- ArtNexus (a magazine on Latin American art)
- Master Drawings, A Quartely Journal Published by the Master Drawings Association
- Peregrinations, Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
Periodical Searches
- Ingenta [formerly UnCover] Article Index
ONLINE ART NEWSPAPERS & ARTS NEWS
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- The Art Tribune (Didier Rykner's La Tribune de l'Art in English), the latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930s, with an Exhibition Calendar
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Observatoire Critique des ressources numériques en histoire de l'art et archéologie. See also the newsletter in French and in English (Corinne Welger-Barboza)
- The Art Newspaper.com
- Art Daily, The First Art Newspaper on the Net
- Arts Journal
- Arts & Letters Daily
- e-Art Magazine, European Art Magazine (in Italian)
- Art Knowledge News, online news magazine
- Art-of-the-Day Info: what's on in Europe
- Exibart.com, eventi, mostre, news
- Fine Arts in the News (collected articles published in the New York Times)
- BBC Online - Arts, with a link to Art
- Asian Art, The Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries
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