Art: Web and Reference Resources

A guide to art on the Internet.

Database providing access through group or item records to about 75% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Many of the catalog records are accompanied by digital images--about 1.2 million digital images in all.

A gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the content of Grove Art Online and Oxford art reference in one location, including a "search for images only" option.

The Image Gallery includes over 210,500 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.

a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 22.600 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available.

The Journal of Art Historiography, an open-access peer-reviewed e-journal, is dedicated to the self-critical exploration of art history as a methodological practice. The journal’s commitment to inclusivity results in remarkable breadth of coverage, with each issue collating commissioned articles, conference papers, book reviews, and primary research materials (including translations of influential texts). Its cross-disciplinary emphasis makes this journal of great interest not only to the art historian, but to sociologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnographers and scholars of many other disciplines.

A new open-access digital journal published jointly by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Offering a dynamic viewing and reading experience on an interactive, multi-media platform, BASresponsively adapts to tablet, computer, and phone screens. Content can also be saved, downloaded, and read offline.

A scholarly, refereed digital journal devoted to the study of nineteenth-century painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, architecture, and decorative arts across the globe. Open to various historical and theoretical approaches, the editors welcome contributions that reach across national boundaries and illuminate intercultural contact zones. The chronological scope of the journal is the “long” nineteenth century, stretching from the American and French Revolutions, at one end, to the outbreak of World War I, at the other.

The A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research.

Comprehensive site providing links to information covering Prehistoric Art to Contemporary Art.

A portal to library catalogs, image databases, electronic publications and web resources. In German with the option to browse in English.

The Tate's online glossary contains definitions, most with illustrations, of over 400 terms including artist groups and art movements, techniques, and media.

Online directory of artists and curators which features over 2500 profiles with images, audio, video, biographies, statements and an events listing. All artists and curators are selected to reflect the quality and diversity of art produced today.

A database of 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

Database includes over 375,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.

Features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.

More than 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history are listed below and illustrated on this web site with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models.

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Database of the permanent collection of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Web site providing free access to high quality visual art resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.

An online resource for media art.

A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. A free, copyrighted, scholarly database for the use of researchers, students and the public.

OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS).

OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.

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