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This guide provides an overview of tools and basic strategies for conducting library research in Art History.
Please also take a look at the Digital Art History guide.
Table of Content for this Research Guide
I. Home
III. Books
IV. Databases
V. Time Periods - Ancient Mediterranean,Ancient Americas, Islam, and Asia , Medieval to Baroque Europe ,Modern and Contemporary
VI. Formats - Architecture Painting Photography
Vii. Place
VIII Images
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- Art Full Text and Art Index RetrospectiveIndexes articles (some full text) from art periodicals published throughout the world (mostly English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins) In addition to articles, this database indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. CLICK BOTH ART FULL TEXT AND ART INDEX RETROSPECTIVE to search everything at once.
- Oxford Art OnlineIncludes Grove Art Online (an encyclopedia of over 40,000 articles covering art, artists, and all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, as well as digital images of the most frequently studied works of art), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (entries by art historians, philosophers, and theorists), and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
- WorldcatConsolidated catalog of items held by libraries worldwide.
- ArtstorCurated collections of digital images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. Over 1 million images
Other Online Art History resources
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See the Ancient Art web guide DYABOLA Contains electronic subject catalogs of publications on the history of art and the ancient world. Based on the superb Archäologische Bibliographie this database is a true devil to search. Refer to the DYABOLA search tips for help Annee Philologique An international bibliography that contains citations for Greek and Roman studies. The database covers all aspects of classical languages, literatures, history, philosophy, art, religion, music, mythology, science, numismatics, and other subjects. Its scope is the period from 2000 BC to 800 AD.
The Beazley Archive Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum PERSEUS Digital Library The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the humanities. Collaborators initially formed the project to construct a large, heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world....The classical foundation has paved the way for literary and historical collections ranging across a much large time span. Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project |
Medieval, Renaissance, BaroqueInternational Medieval Bibliography The International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) is an interdisciplinary bibliography of the European Middle Ages, covering Europe, the Middle East and North Africa in the period 400-1500. Indexing begins in 1967 and the database regularly covers some 4500 periodicals and 5000 miscellany volume (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften and exhibition catalogues). IIter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance indexes journals covering the cultural aspects of the Renaissance in Europe from 1300-1700. It will eventually include all aspects of the Renaissance and Middle Ages (400-1500). Vatican Library (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana) |
ModernInventories of American Painting and Sculpture Catalog |
Non-WesternLinks to WWW sites related to African art . Caribbean Abstracts Handbook of Latin American Studies HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index |
Other related internet sitesWWW Gateways and Guides Associations, Institutes and Organizations Some Specialized Sites |
Subject Guide |
 Kim Collins  Links: Profile & Guides |
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