Art History: Other Resources
Internet Resources
- art and architectureFrom the Courtauld Institute of Art
- Art Cyclopedia9,000 artists, 2,900 art sites indexed and 160,000 links
- arthistoricumGerman virtual art library
- Arts JournalLinks to current arts stories in the news
- Axis: the online resource for contemporary art"The website features profiles of professional artists and curators, interviews, discussions, art news, debates and showcases the artists to watch."
- Best History Websites: Art HistoryA site designed for schools but has a useful collection of art history web sites
- British Library Images Online"a unique resource for picture buyers, graphic designers and publishers, enabling you to license thousands of high quality images from the British Library's unparalleled collections"
- British MuseumThe 'Explore' page
- Dictionary of Art Historians"A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history."
- Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1660-1980 This link opens in a new window"The Dictionary of Scottish Architects (DSA) is a database providing biographical information and job lists for all architects known to have worked in Scotland during the period 1840-1980"
- Europeana"Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions."
- Getty Provenance Index DatabasesIncludes archival inventories and sales catalogues
- Getty Vocabularies"The Getty vocabularies contain structured terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture, archival materials, visual surrogates, and bibliographic materials."
- Google Art ProjectAllows you to browse art work from over 150 collections
- KubikatKubikat is the collective catalogue of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history:
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institut (www.khi.fi.it)
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich (www.zikg.eu), funded by the Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus, Wissenschaft und Kunst
Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte / Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art in Paris (www.dt-forum.org), funded by Max Weber Stiftung - Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome (www.biblhertz.it) - National Art LibraryInformation about the V&A National Art Library
- National Registry of Archives"The NRA contains information on the nature and location of manuscripts and historical records that relate to British history."
- New York Public Library Digital Collection"over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collection"
- Union List of Artist Names® Online"The four Getty vocabularies are intended to provide terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture and material culture."
- V&A Art auction sales, sales catalogues and price guides study guide"This guide describes resources and standard reference works useful for finding information on prices paid at auction for works of art and locations of sales catalogues for provenance research."
- V&A CollectionsSearch the collections of the V&A
- VADSthe online resource for visual arts. A wealth of collections and resources from the UK HE community.
- Wikimedia Commons" is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips)"
Online Reference Books
- CREDO Reference This link opens in a new windowoffers over 650 major reference books - dictionaries, encyclopaedias, thesauri, biographies, books of quotations, atlases and quick reference works on every subject
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowa collection of over 125 core academic subject, language, and quotations dictionaries
- Who's Who and Who Was Who This link opens in a new windowa directory of the noteworthy and influential in every area of public life, published worldwide. Who Was Who includes 100,000 people, now deceased, who were included in previous editions of Who's Who creating the definitive roll-call of British history.
Credo Reference is a collection of many reference books grouped together for cross-searching. Includes:
Aesthetics A-Z
A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda
The Bloomsbury Guide to Art
The Bridgeman Art Library Archive
Critical Terms for Art History
The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art
If the Paintings Could Talk National Gallery Collection
The National Gallery Companion Guide
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of 20th Century Architecture
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of British Art
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
The Thames & Hudson Encyclopaedia of Impressionism
Oxford Reference also contains many reference books that can be searched simultaneously:
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
A Dictionary of Modern Design
The Oxford Companion to Architecture
The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
The Oxford Dictionary of Art
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Who's Who and Who was Who is a directory of over 100,000 entries for the "noteworthy and influential in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide."