Selected Image Databases
- ARTstor This link opens in a new windowA digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online CatalogDatabase 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.
- Oxford Art OnlineA 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.
Selected Electronic Resources
- Art History Resources on the WebComprehensive site providing links to information covering Prehistoric Art to Contemporary Art.
- Art TermsThe Tate's online glossary contains definitions, most with illustrations, of over 400 terms including artist groups and art movements, techniques, and media.
- AXIS: Online Resource for Contemporary ArtOnline 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.
- Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus OnlineA 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.
- Getty Union List of Artist Names OnlineDatabase includes over 375,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
- Gray’s Anatomy of the Human BodyFeatures 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.
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryA chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
- Helios: Photography OnlineDatabase of the permanent collection of photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- Intute: Arts & Humanities: Visual Arts ResourcesWeb 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.
- RhizomeAn online resource for media art.
Selected Reference Resources in Print
- Atlas of World ArtG1046.E1 O9 2004 Atlas
- Design EncyclopediaNK1370 .B93 2004 Reference
- Encyclopedia of American Folk ArtNK805 .E6 2004 Reference
- Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of ArtN7560 .E53 1998 Reference
- Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century PhotographyTR642 .E5 2006 Reference
- Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and ArchitectureN5610 .G76 2007 Reference
- Illustrated Dictionary of Architectural Preservation: Restoration, Renovation, Rehabilitation, ReuseNA105 .B87 2003 Reference
- Klee as in Clay: A Pronunciation GuideNX163 .M3 1986 Reference
- Modern Arts CriticismN40 .M63 Reference
- Oxford Companion to Western ArtN33 .O923 2001 Reference