WWW sites
General
Art History
Resources on the web. Chris Witcombe's excellent guide.
Mother
of All Art History Resources.
WWW virtual library - History of Art
Intute: visual arts is a searchable
catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully
selected and catalogued.
Artnet - includes a
research library with
thousands of articles form the Grove Dictionary of
Art.
Portraiture websites
National Portrait Gallery (London)..... and its Making art in Tudor Britain
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (US)
National Portrait Gallery (Canberra)
Understanding British Portraits
Tudor and Elizabeth portraits
Holbein in England - a 2007 exhibition at the Tate Gallery. (I have ordered the catalogue but we have other Holbein titles by Susan Foister)
Podcast: Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein, from the National Museums Liverpool.
William Hogarth and 18th century print culture - has a section on physsionomy
Las Meninas
Ddigital image of the painting 'Las Meninas' (1656) by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), and an accompanying critique by the art historian Kenneth Clar, taken from Clark's book 'Looking at Pictures'
InfoGoya96: an initiative of the University of Zaragoza
Goya's last works from the Frick Collection
Gallery websites
Art Images for
College Teaching (AICT)
Louvre
Metropolitan Museum of
Art
........and its exhibition Age of Rembrand: Dutch paintings in the Metropolitam Museum of Art
National Gallery of Art,
Washington
Uffizi, Florence
National Gallery,
London
Tate
Gallery
Royal Academy of Arts
Yale University Art
Gallery
Museum of fine Arts, Boston -
European Paintings
Rijksmuseum (Netherlands)
Age of Enlightenment in thepaintings of France's National Museums
Handbooks,
encyclopaedias and dictionaries
These should be your starting point for basic information and key references about your artist or subject.
General Art
The two largest encyclopedieas are:
Dictionary of art. 1996. 34 volumes.
(Grove)
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Parts of this are available online via the research library at Artnet:
16,000 artists
biographies, 130 articles on materials and
techniques,
1000 articles on styles and
movements.
and
Encyclopedia of world art. 15 volumes. 1958.
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Other ones are:
Britannica encyclopedia of art, ed.Sir Lawrence Gowing, 5 vols, 2005
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The Oxford companion to
western art, edited by
Hugh Brigstocke 2001.
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The Oxford companion to Christian art and architecture.
1996.
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Oxford dictionary of art. 2nd ed.
1997.
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Renaissance Art
Painting of the Golden Age : a biographical dictionary
of seventeenth-century European painters.
1993.
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The dictionary of 16th & 17th century British
painters. 1988.
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W326di
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Encyclopedia of the Renaissance ed. P. F Grendler, 6 vols. 1999
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Historical dictionary of Renaissance art, Lilian H. Zirpolo, 2008
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Art terminology
Art history : the key concepts, Jonathan Harris, 2006
709 H3147a main collection and also online Art history - the key concepts
Nelson R. Critical terms for art
history, 2003
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Dictionary of art terms and techniques. 1969.
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Thames and Hudson dictionary of art terms E.
Lucie-Smith, Edward 2003.
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The concise Oxford dictionary
of art
terms, Michael
Clarke 2002.
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Looking at prints, drawings and watercolours : a guide to technical terms, Paul Goldman,
2nd ed. 2006
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Symbols and Iconography
Encyclopedia of comparative iconography - themes depicted in works of art, ed. H. E. Roberts. 2 vols 1998
Very good - longer articles with bibliographies.
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Dictionary of symbols in art : the illustrated key to Western
painting and sculpture.
Sarah Carr-Gomm, 2000
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Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art, James Hall, 2nd. ed. 2008
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Encyclopaedia of themes and subjects in painting.
1971.
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The complete dictionary of
symbols in myth, art
and literature, ed.Jack
Tresidder.
London : Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004
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Continuum encyclopedia of
animal symbolism in art Hope
B. Werness 2004
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History
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Europe 1450 to 1789 : encyclopedia of the early modern world, ed. J. Dewald 6 vols. 2004
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Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000, Peter N. Stearns, 6 vols, 2001
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Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, ed. T. G. Bergin, 1987
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Historical dictionary of the Elizabethan world : Britain, Ireland, Europe, and America, J. A. Wagner., 1999
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Historical dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603, R. H. Fritze, 1991
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Historical dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689, R. H. Fritze, 1995.
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Longman companion to the Stuart age, 1603-1714, J. Wroughton. 1997
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Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. Michel Delon, 2 vols, 2001
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Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment, John W. Yolton, 1992
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Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850, ed. Christopher John Murray
Biography
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Oxford dictionary of national biography : in association with the British Academy : from the earliest times to the year 2000, ed.H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols, 2004
Each article in the new edition has a link to the original article from the 1885- edition.
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Routh, C.R.N. Who’s who in Tudor England. 1990
Artists: from Michaelangelo to Maya Lin. 2 volumes. 1995.
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International dictionary of art and artists. 2 volumes. 1990.
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Larousse dictionary of painters. 1981.
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Artists of the world: a bio-bibliographical index. 10 vols. 1999
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Finding journal
articles:
Indexes, Databases and Bibliographies
Art
Art index. 1929/32-1998
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continued by
Art Abstracts 1984-
Artbibliographies modern.
1969-
NOT IN BSL
State Library (1969-1987) and University of South Australia Library
(1969-1996)
A comprehensive coverage of art and design of the 19th and 20th
centuries.
BHA: bibliography of the history of art. 1991-1995.
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Covers the current literature of European art and of American art;
and of art anywhere in the world that reflects contact with the
Western tradition. The material is arranged within broad
periods by topic then by country.
Use the Subject Index to locate all articles on an individual
artist or specific theme.
History
Historical abstracts 1967-
Covers history 1450-, not medieval history, North America.
The Royal Historical Society bibliography - the most comprehensive index to British historical journals.
Interdisciplinary indexes and databases
Academic OneFile1980-
20 million peer-reviewed, articles, a large
proportion of which are full-text from more than
8000 journals, including many art journals.
Academic Search Premier
Full text for over 4000 of the 8000 journals aross all
subject areas, including art.
JSTOR includes full text of older issues of journals,
including:
Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Periodicals index online
A database of millions of article citations published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Links to full text in PAO Periodicals archive online
An
archive of hundreds of digitised journals published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences.
This is a useful source for finding contemporary articles about art
in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Many of the older journals are held either in the BSL or State
Library - check catalogues.
Project Muse full text of nearly 250 quality journal
titles from 40 scholarly publishers covering the fields of
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts,
cultural studies etc etc.
Bibliographies
Iconographic Analysis a bibliography from
Rutgers University Art Library
Parshall, L. B. Art and the Reformation : an annotated
bibliography.
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Kaufmann, T. Art and architecture in Central
Europe, 1550-1620 : an annotated bibliography .
1988
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Parsons, C. A bibliography of Salon criticism in Second
Empire Paris. 1986
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German expressionism in the fine arts : a
bibliography, by John M. Spalek. 1977
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Kleinbauer, W. E. Research guide to the history of Western
art. 1982
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Finding books in the library catalogue
Use these terms to either search the catalogue under the subject
heading option or use them as part of keyword searches.
Portrait painters
Portrait painting
....browse up and down,,,,17th century, British, England, English etc
Art, Early Renaissance....browse countries....eg Italy
Art , Renaissance ....browse countries....eg Netherlands
Art, High Renaissance
Art Methodology.
Symbolism in art
Painting, French
Art and society
Kings and rulers.....browse
Kings and rulers in art
Art and state
Self portraits
Artists portraits
Art patronage.....browse...also use under names of kings etc,....eg...Henry 1491-1547 Art patronage
Great Britain Court and courtiers History ...browse dates
Art Political aspects.....browse
Propaganda.....browse
Great Britain History .....then browse subdivisions, such as:
Great Britain History Tudors 1475-1603
Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603... and Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary etc
Great Britain History 16th century........or 17th century
Great Britain History Stuarts 1603-1714
Names of artists and famous individuals can be searched as subject headings:
Elizabeth I Queen of England, 1533-1603
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669
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