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.
Galleries and Images
Art Images for
College Teaching (AICT)
Louvre
Metropolitan 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
WebMuseum, Paris
Jacques-Edouard Berger
Foundation : World Art Treasures
Orazio Centaro's art images on
the web
Individual artists
Medieval mystery: who is the master of the embroidered foliage? from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Bellini:creating re-creating, from theIndianapolis Museum of Art
Share the Perspective of Genius: Leonardo’s Study for the Adoration of
the Magi from the Library of Congress
Rembrandt's late religious portraits, National Gallery of Art, Washington
InfoGoya96: an initiative of the University of Zaragoza
Goya's last works from the Frick Collection
Girodet - romantic rebel, from the Art Institute of Chicago
Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro 1865–1885, from the Museum of Modern Art
Vincent van Gogh Gallery
Van Gogh's Van Goghs (National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Claude Monet
Turner Whistler Monet - from the Tate Gallery
On-Line Picasso Project
William Morris Gallery
Other useful websites
Oxford History of Art - online resources
Investigating
the Renaissance, from the Harvard University Art
Museums
Feminist aesthetics (a bibliography)
Milestones of Modernism
1880-1940: Selections from the Norwest Collection of The
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Cubism image
bank, originally created by the University of Southern
California.
Arts in Victorian Britain from the Victorian Web
Founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Handbooks,
encyclopaedias and dictionaries
These should be your starting point for basic information and key references about your artist or topic.
General
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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Art civilization. 1992.
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Concise history of painting from Giotto to
Cézanne. 1962.
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Dictionnaire universal de la peinture. 6
volumes. 1975.
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Dictionary of art and artists. 1965.
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Supplemented by the updated text in -
Penguin dictionary of art and artists. 6th ed.
1989.
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Dictionary of modern painting. 3rd ed.
1984.
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Essential art history. 1992.
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Hutchinson dictionary of the arts.: movements, terms, people:
from ancient art to world music. 1994
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Larousse encyclopedia of modern art. 1965.
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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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The world’s master paintings: from the early
Renaissance to the present day. 2 volumes.
1991.
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Artists - biographical
Giorgio
Vasari, Lives of the artitsts
Cambridge companion to Masaccio, ed. Diane Cole Ahl, 2002
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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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Biographical dictionary of artists. 1983.
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Renaissance
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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Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries
Encyclopedia of the romantic era, 1760-1850, ed C. J. Murray, 2 vols, 2003
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Dictionary of Impressionism. 1973.
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Encyclopedie du symbolisme: peinture, gravure et sculpture,
litterature, musique. 1979.
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L'Impressionnisme et son epoque. 1978.
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Nineteenth century painters and painting: a
dictionary. 1977.
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Thames and Hudson encycloppedia of British art ed. D. Bindman. 1985
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Twentieth Century
Styles, schools, and movements :
an encyclopaedic guide to modern art, Amy
Dempsey 2002.
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Art of our century: the story of Western art 1900 to the
present. 1990.
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Atkins, R. Artspeak: a guide to contemporary
ideas, movements and buzzwords 1945 to the present. 2nd
ed. 1997
Contemporary artists. 4th ed. 1996.
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Contemporary masterworks. 1991.
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Dictionary of Expressionism. 1973.
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Dictionnaire abrege du Surrealisme. 1938.
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Dictionnaire general du Surrealisme et de ses
environs . 1982.
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Dictionary of the avant-gardes, R.
Kostelanetz. 2nd ed. 2000
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Dictionary of twentieth century art. 1998.
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Dictionary of Surrealism. 1974.
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Glossary of art, architecture and design since
1945. 3rd ed. 1992.
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Oxford companion to twentieth-century art.
1981.
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Cambridge companion to Modernism. 1999.
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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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Artwords: a glossary of contemporary art theory.
1997.
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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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Women artists
Great women masters of
art, Jordi
Vigue 2002
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Dictionary of women artists. 2 volumes. 1997.
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Dictionary of women artists: an international dictionary of
women artists born before 1900. 1985.
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Women artists in history. 2nd ed. 1990.
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Clement, R. T. The women impressionists : a
sourcebook. 2000
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Atlases
Atlas of western art history: artists, sites, and movements from
ancient Greece to the modern age. 1994
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Chronologies
Calendar of creative man. 1979.
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Chronology of twentieth-century history: arts and
culture. 2 volumes. 1998.
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Chronologies are provided also in the following:
Art of our century: the story of Western art 1900 to the
present. 1990.
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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.
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.
Not a great number of explicitly art titles but some useful ones
such as:
Modernism/modernity (1994-), Leonardo (2001-), Victorian studies
1999-
Historical abstracts 1967-
Covers history 1450-, not medieval history, North America.
If you need newspaper coverage of art
exhibitions and news, use
Factiva, an index to Australian and international newspapers
with full text.
Older newspaper coverage can be found via theTimes(London) Digital archive at the State Library.
Web of science 1980-
Includes the Arts & humanities citation
index.
Can search by keywords or citation. Artists are cited.
British humanities index. 1917-1994.
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A subject guide to articles in British journals and
newspapers. Earlier volumes had a broader coverage. British
humanities index and Art index are useful sources of
contemporary comment from the 1920s to date.
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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Clement, R. T. The women impressionists : a
sourcebook. 2000
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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.
Art, Early Renaissance....browse countries....eg Italy
Art , Renaissance ....browse countries....eg Netherlands
Art, High Renaissance
Mannerism (Art)
Art Historiography
Art Methodology.
Symbolism in art
Prints.....browse dates and countries
Feminism and art
Women in art
Romanticism in art
Art, Modern 19th century
Impressionism (Art)
Painting, French
Art and society
Realism in art
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Painting, Victorian
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Painting, British 19th century
Pre-Raphaelitism
Aesthetic movement (Art)
Cities and towns in art
Artists' names.......Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da,
1573-1610
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528
Rubens, Peter Paul, Sir, 1577-1640
Manet, Edouard, 1832-1883
Cézanne, Paul, 1839-1906
or do guided keyword
searches for
durer
print?
(ALL OF THESE)
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