General Art History Resources |
Analysis of the Visual Image |
ARLIS/NA: Art Libraries of North America |
Art and Architecture of Venice (Carl Gable) |
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine (comprehensive list of links to image archives and museum websites searchable by artist name, title, and location) (John Malyon) |
Art History WWW Resources (general art history portal) (Robert A. Duffy) |
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Art History Research Centre ("the first and foremost tool for art historical research on the internet") (Leif Harmsen, Concordia U.) |
Artist-Show.com (links to information on museums, galleries, exhibitions, auctions, art, resources for artists, etc.) |
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Art Materials and Techniques |
Painting |
Fresco |
Italian Painting of the Later Middle Ages: Fresco |
Oil Painting |
Painting in Oil in the Low Countries and its Spread to Southern Europe (images and introduction) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) |
Pottery and Ceramics |
Majolica/Maiolica |
Maiolica (introduction and images of maiolica) |
Majolica Overview (introduction, extensive description and recipes for majolica) (Linda Arbuckle, U. of Florida) |
Art on the Web (extensive compilation of art and art-history resources, including online courses, image collections) (Jeffery Howe) |
ArtServe (Art & architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan and now India) (Michael Greenhalgh, Australian National U) |
Avery Images: RLG Digital Image Access Project (DIAP) |
Carol Jackson Presents Fine Art (biographies and large pictures for over 100 artists) |
Clearinghouse of Image Databases & IMAGELIB Listserv Archives (U. Arizona Library) |
College Art Association (includes tables of contents for Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and online conference news) |
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Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities |
Homepage |
Conducting Research (list of and links to online research resources at the Getty) |
The Getty Vocabularies |
The Getty Vocabulary Program |
AAT: Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online (extensive art and architecture vocabulary) |
TGN: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online ("a vocabulary of 1.3 million names...focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture") |
ULAN: Union List of Artist Names Online ("more than 225,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects...") |
Grove Dictionary of Art ("instant access to award winning scholarship in 41,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific, with links to images and further information in museum and other art-related web sites"; require |
History of Art ("A resource of images for support of instruction:" images from ancient-modern art) (Dr. Chris Henige) |
Huntington Library Research Materials in Art History |
ICONCLASS Home Page ("ICONCLASS organizes iconography into 10 'main divisions' in which the definitions are ordered hierarchically. At present the system contains approximately 28,000 definitions of objects, persons, events, situations and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. The bibliography consists of c. 40,000 references to books and articles of iconographical and cultural historical interest.") (Available in English, French, German and Italian) |
Iconografische Thema's (guide to iconographical themes in historical art; includes images; in Dutch) (Jaconelle Schuffel) |
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Image Copyright & Intellectual Property Issues |
Copyright and Image Management (extensive, detailed guide to copyright issues relevant to academic text and image work) (Georgia Harper, Office of General Counsel, U. Texas System) |
Educational Fair Use Guidelines for Digital Images (Georgia Harper, Office of General Counsel, U. Texas System) |
International Directory of Art Libraries (searchable) (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) |
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Mark Harden's Artchive |
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Mother of All Art History Links Pages |
Resources of Scholarly Societies - Fine Arts (U. Waterloo) |
SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (Smithsonian catalogs, including libraries, archives and manuscripts, art inventories, Juley photographic collection, and specialized bibliographies) |
Thais 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (information and images on Italian sculpture from the Middle Ages to Modern times) (in English and Italian) |
Timeline of Art History ("a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art, as illustrated especially by the museum's collection") (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) |
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WebMuseum, Paris (Nicolas Pioch) |
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