Art History/Classics Library - Art History Resources

Academic Search Complete - UCB access only
Comprehensive, scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
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Anthropology Plus - UCB access only
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture. This database combines the resources of Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature. Covers late 19th century to the present. Some full text.

ArchiveGrid
Access to nearly a million collection descriptions provided by thousands of libraries, museums, and archives . Researchers can contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.

Art Full Text - UC access only
This index covers the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. The Art Full Text component of the Art Index (1984-present) offers full text for approximately 160 of the journals from 1997 to present. Coverage is international. There are approximately 499 journal titles currently indexed, including ceased titles. Emerging areas of art research have also been expanded, including non-western art, contemporary art, feminist art criticism, crafts, costume, and textiles. The citations found in this index also include abstracts (50 to 300 words describing the content and scope of the article) from 1984 to the present.
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Art Index Retrospective - UC access only
A bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. It contains records for items in the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video. Coverage includes 1929-1984.
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ARTbibliographies Modern - UCB access only
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. ABM provides citations to sources on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. It includes abstracts of English and foreign-language material on a wide-ranging group of topics including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
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Artforum Index
The expanded, on-line version of The Artforum Index, initially published in print as Artforum, 1962-1968: a cumulative index to the first six volumes. It now includes volume VII, numbers 1-4, September-December 1968.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index - UCB access only
Available through ISI Web of Science. Click on Full Search or Easy Search to access database. Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage includes 1975 to present. Contains unique implicit citations that refer you to actual representations of a book, a work of art, a music score, or anything else. Since January 2000 the index contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts (as available) for the new articles entered into the index.
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Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - UC access only
Contains article citations in architecture and related disciplines. Subjects covered include archaeology, architecture, architectural design, city planning, furniture and decoration, interior design, historic preservation, history of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and planning. More than 1,000 journals in many languages are indexed. Recent citations contain brief abstracts. Coverage spans the 1930s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s.
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BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) - UC access only
BHA indexes over 1,400 and abstracts articles, art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and art exhibition and dealer's catalogs. Subjects include painting, sculpture, drawings, prints; decorative and applied arts; architecture and industrial design; popular and folk art. This extensive and comprehensive index covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. BHA includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: RAA (Repertoire d'Art et d'Archeologie) from 1973 to 1989 and RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art) from 1975 to 1989. Click here for the current database size & fact sheet plus a complete list of journal titles.
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Contemporary Artists Index
Developed by the Gund Library at the Cleveland Institute of Art, indexes over 15,000 artists, artists groups, photographers, craftspeople, designers, and design firms whose work appears in group exhibition catalogs added to the library since 1991, as well as the video periodical Art Today and View, a periodical specializing in artist interviews.

Current Research - UC access only
Full-text access to UC Berkeley dissertations filed since 1996 and citations for those filed prior to 1996.

Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) - UCB access only
Indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American, and selected European, graduate schools and universities. Dissertations published since 1980, and master's theses since 1988, include brief abstracts written by the authors. UC dissertations since 1996 are free for downloading. Other titles can be borrowed through interlibrary loan or purchased online in a variety of formats. Covers 1861 - present. See the Web database Dissertations & Theses @ University of California for free access to the full text of nearly all U.C. Berkeley dissertations filed 1996 onward.

DYABOLA Databases - UC access only
Dyabola provides searchable databases of classical art works and the literature of ancient archaeology.

The Subject Catalog of the German Archaeological Institute in Rome [DAI] Guide .
The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. Guide .
Attic Grave Reliefs of the Late 5th and of the 4th Century B.C. Guide .

Web access is automatic if you click on "Dyabola Databases" from UCB Library computers. On the screen, check the box labeled "IP-Zugang", then click on "Start", then choose database and language. To access these databases from off campus, please consult the UC Berkeley Library Proxy Server Service for complete information and instructions.

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(1) DAI Subject Catalogue describes one of the world's largest and oldest (founded 1829) collections of research material on Classical, Egyptian, and Near Eastern Archaeology; Byzantine Art; Epigraphy; Numismatics; and Ancient History. It is especially valuable because, in addition to listing its book holdings, it indexes articles in the journals it receives. It is searchable by controlled terms for author, title, journal title, etc. and by keywords in titles and other access points, as well as through use of an elaborate subject tree of controlled terms.

(2) Census is a database of images of ancient works of art that were known during the Renaissance, along with information about them: authorship; conventional title; provenance; current and former locations; Renaissance texts discussing them; and some modern scholarship. It includes 10,000 ancient monuments, 20,000 references to Renaissance texts, and 30,000 photographs.
NOTE: Public access to The Census is available at CENSUS-Database / CENSUS-Website (optimized for Mozilla Firefox).

(3) Attic Grave Reliefs database, with approximately 2,700 monuments and over 3,200 images, contains over 160,000 entries providing access to comprehensive corpora and a wealth of monographs and essays; in addition over 900 descriptive and typological terms were specially developed on the material for complete access to complex iconographic, epigraphic, social, chronological and geographic aspects.

Expanded Academic ASAP - UC access only
This index contains records for articles from over 3,500 popular magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Some full text is available for selected art journals, including Art Bulletin, Art in America , Art Journal, Artforum International, etc. Coverage varies but generally begins in the 1980s.

FRANCIS - UC access only
Contains records from more than 3,000 journals, books, dissertations, and other American and European sources covering the humanities, social sciences, and economics. FRANCIS is produced by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST). Most citations, abstracts, and subject headings are in French, with about 33% in English.
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The Getty Provenance Index
The Getty Provenance Index accumulates and disseminates information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art (primarily European paintings) gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files.

Image of France
Directed by George McKee at Binghamton University Libraries and supported by the ARTFL Project, this index comprises approximately 19,000 prints, engravings, lithographs, woodcuts, etc, published in Paris between the fall of 1811 and the end of 1830. The prints comprise all varieties, including caricatures, art reproductions, political portraits, religious cards, commercial labels, etc. Information is brief, usually providing only a work's title and publisher. May be searched by artistic personnel, title phrases & keywords, publisher, date, and identification number.

Index of Christian Art Database - UCB access only
A thematic and iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects to 1400, via Princeton University. Coverage: 1991-present. Note that the online version does not contain all of the images available in the original card files that are only available for consultation at The Getty and Princeton University. Images not available are labeled restricted in the record. Images that are available are referred to as public image . Simply click to access the image.

Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals - UC access only
The database indexes 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period. The Index describes the entire journal contents - articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements - and offers information on popular culture and industry, artists and illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture and design, exhibitions and sales, decorations, and collecting.
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International Index to the Performing Arts: IIPA - UCB access only
The IIPA draws its current content from more than 130 international periodicals and also indexes articles and obituaries appearing in the New York Times and the Washington Post. Includes retrospective citations from 46 periodicals, dating back to 1864. Most records contain an abstract.

International Medieval Bibliography (IMB) - UCB access only
Indexes over 4500 periodicals and 5000 conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften, edited volumes, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogues covering all aspects of the Middle Ages (400-1500 A.D.) in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. 1967 - present.

Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance - UC access only
Iter's bibliography covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for journal articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, catalogues, abstracts and discographies are included. Also included are citations for monographs, and material published in monographs and collections of essays. Indexes over 1,114 journals.

JSTOR - UCB access only
JSTOR is a full text archive of interdisciplinary scholarly journal literature. A list of included journals by discipline is available.

Left Index - UCB access only
Provides access to leftist and radical media from around the world with a primary emphasis on political, economic, social, and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia, including citations and abstracts and some full text from journals, books, book reviews, newsletters, and links to internet documents. Topics covered include art and aesthetics, the labor movement, ecology and environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, philosophy, history, education, law and globalization. Coverage is from 1982 to present.

Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index (AECI)
Created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Exhibition Catalog Index has descriptive information on nearly 136,494 art works shown in over 1,057 exhibitions held in this country and Canada up through 1876 (the Centennial year). Includes American and European artists and includes all media of art works - painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, etc.

Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists
Contains information and bibliographic citations on over 13,000 printmakers and their work ranging in date from the eighteenth century to 2001. Includes material compiled by Timothy Riggs and published in 1983 as The Print Council Index to Oeuvre-Catalogues of Prints by European and American Artists (see CALL: NE90.A12.R53 1983 Art/Classics), as well as expanded and up-to-date material by Lauren B. Hewes.

Project Muse - UC access only
250 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Topics include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others. Covers 1993 - present.

Research Library (ProQuest) - UCB access only
Indexes more than 2,500 magazine and journals on art, business, humanities, health, social sciences, and sciences. Interfaces available for many languages. 1971 - present. Some full text.

Victorian Database Online - UCB access only
Indexes over 500 journals, books, and dissertations concerning Victorian Britain (defined as 1830-1914), in every field of nineteenth-century British studies including: painting, architecture, and music; philosophy and religion; histories of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the British Empire; military and naval history; politics, commerce, and economics; sociology, women's studies, law, and education; science, technology, and medicine; and literature, drama, poetry, prose, and fiction. This is an online version of the Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies. 1945 - present.

Art Portals

Artsource
A website of networked resources on art and architecture. Includes diverse content plus links to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, art historians, etc. Table of contents includes image collections, art and architecture programs, art journals online, general resources, etc.

INFOMINE
A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. Includes databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, etc. Created by librarians from the University of California and other educational institutions.

Mother of All Art History Link Pages
Web links to Internet resources related to art & art history. Categories include: Art History Departments; Research Resources; Resources for Visual Collections; Image Collections & Online Art; Fine Art Schools & Departments, Textual & Linguistic Resources, etc.

Voice of the Shuttle
Internet links to humanities and humanities-related resources. VoS emphasizes both primary and secondary (theoretical) resources. Categories include: Art & Art History; Cyberculture; Media Studies, and Photography.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
A collection of links relating to art history and computer applications in art history. The site is sponsored by CHArt , the Computers and History of Art Group.

Auction-Related Information

Artfact
The Artfact database contains auction records for antiques, art, jewelry, and many special interest categories traditionally sold by auction houses. The free version of Artfact allows browsing/searching of upcoming auctions, 6 million abridged auction records, and nearly 30,000 objects plus access to the Fine Art Price database. For free access, click on Sign-in/Register in the left margin. To access the entire database, a fee is required.

Artnet
Though one must subscribe to buy, sell and research fine art via Artnet , it allows access to information on the 1,300 galleries, 36,000 works (limited image access) and 13,000 primarily contemporary artists it represents. It also provides a directory of U.S., International, and virtual museums, exhibition and book reviews, museum and art fair schedules, international auction results, artist biographies, and a free newsletter. For easiest navigation, use the Site Map, which can be located by placing the cursor on the "Home" icon.

Auction Sales Indexes
New York Public Library guide to auction sale indexes, price guides and catalogs. Because individual auction houses do not issue their own indexes, the use of these compilations provides the best approach to finding sale information. Each index provides different coverage in terms of dates, contents and scope. This guide includes the following sections: Chart of Subjects Covered by Various Auction Indexes; Current Auction Sales Indexes; Retrospective Auction Sales Indexes; Price Guides; Electronic Resources for Auction Sales; Publications of Sotheby's and Christie's.

Bonhams & Butterfields
Based in San Francisco, Butterfields offers free photo appraisals as well as formal appraisals and consignments. Founded in 1793, Bonhams is one of Britain's largest fine art and antique auction house operating across all sectors of the fine art, antiques and collectibles market, etc. Offers sales advice and valuation services.

Catalogues of Sales: 1734-1945. (Print resource only)
Sotheby & Co. 1734-1945. ca. 10,000 catalogs on microfilm. Part I (Reels 1-71; 1734-1850); Part II (Reels 1-148; 1851-1900); Part III (Reels 1-155; 1901-1945). NEWS MICROFILM 16663.Z (40 Doe Library)
Covering catalogues from the British Museum collection, each catalogue is preceded by a contents card detailing the names of the owners, date of sale, number of pages, lots, illustrations, location of the copy filmed, and the contents of the sale. To facilitate use, the entries in the guides for each part are arranged in the same chronological order as the catalogues in the microfilm collection. Contents are categorized under the following headings: Autographed Letters, Art (Objects), Art (Pictorial), Books, Coins and Medals, Mss. (Western), Mss. (Oriental), and Other.

Christie's
Since 1766, Christie's auction house, with locations in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles, covers the fine arts, antiquities, American Indian and tribal art, Asian and Islamic art, furniture and decorative arts, the collectibles market, books and manuscripts, photographs and prints, etc.; it also offers appraisals and evaluations.

Davenport's Art Reference & Price Guide. (Print resource only)
R.J. Davenport. Ventura, Calif.: Davenport's Art Reference, c1986-. Latest edition in Doe Reference. Doe Reference/Main N8670.D38
Price data on over 275,000 international artists, listed alphabetically, for oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures, prints, posters and photographs. Provides auction house and sale date, subject matter for which artist is known, references cited, signature information, and brief biographical information.

Getty Provenance Index Databases
Includes archival documents (1550-1840), sale catalogs (1650-1840) and public collections from American and British Institutions (1500-1990).

[Hislop's] Art Sales Index via ARTINFO
The Art Sales Index database contains over 3.5 million auction records for paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, works on paper, and miniatures dating back to the 1920s. Over 200,000 artists from more than 500 auction houses worldwide are represented. Free registration required.

Hislop's Art Sales Index (CD-Rom only)
N8670.A66 compu/d (request at Circulation Desk)
Contains 2.6 million art auction results worldwide for over 214,000 artists, from 1979 through June 2005. May be searched by artist name or nationality, picture title or description, medium, dimensions, date painted, auctioneer, date of sale, catalogue title, medium, hammer price in pounds or dollars, country and city. Provides contact details of the auction houses including email and web address.

Lugt's Répertoire Online - UCB access only
NOTE: To search either Répertoire or Libraries, use scroll bar on left-hand side of page to scroll down to bottom to locate the two search bars--Click on either Search Répertoire or Search Libraries to open up a search window. Online edition of Lugt's Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques, fN8650.L8, v.1-4, Art/Classics, lists over 60,000 art sales catalogues dated 1600-1900 from libraries in Europe and the U.S.A. The catalogues provide information on the provenance of art objects, the history of collecting, and historical market trends. Numerous catalogues have been added to the original work and corrections made. Searchable by Lugt number, date, place, provenance, auction house and existing copies. In addition, the Libraries database allows the searching of libraries holding art sales catalogues.

SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs - UC access only
SCIPIO (Sales Catalog Index Project Input Online) was formed to help researchers identify annually published auction catalogs; it is a particularly valuable resource for those seeking information on the provenance of art objects and rare books, connoisseurship, the history of collecting and collectors, historical and contemporary market trends, and the relationship between art and economics. Includes sales catalogs dating from the late sixteenth century to currently scheduled auctions. Important private sales as well as sale catalogs from all major European and North American auction houses are covered in subject areas of world art from all time periods, books and manuscripts, painting, sculpture, drawing, prints and photographs, furniture, decorative and applied arts, musical instruments, and objets d'art.
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Sotheby's
London based Sotheby's, founded in 1744, with offices throughout the world, covers all areas of the fine and decorative arts. Provides appraisals; auction estimates; restoration; and, repairs.

UCSB Arts Library
The UCSB Arts Library is the UC depository for auction catalogs. The most recent five years of Sotheby's and Christie's are housed on-site; earlier catalogs are stored in the off-campus Library Annex. A small number of these catalogs, as well as the Knoedler Library on Microfiche collection of retrospective sales catalogs, are indexed on SCIPIO .

Bibliographies

Bibliographies for the Study of Medieval Art
Compiled by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) providing an overview of the principal hardcopy and electronic resources on four periods in the Middle Ages: Early Christian Art (c.250-c.500); Early Medieval Art (c.500-c.1000); Later Medieval Art (c.1000-c.1500); and, Byzantine Art & Architecture.

Bill Viola: Bibliography
A leading video artist, Bill Viola has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, and works for television broadcast. Includes selected artists' writings, books, catalogues, articles and reviews. Compiled by Bill Viola.

Medieval Sources Bibliography (Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University)
A searchable database of texts written in the Middle Ages now available in modern editions and translations, printed or online. Includes literary works, devotional treatises, philosophical writings, private letters, wills, household accounts, chronicles, court proceedings, etc.

Rosalind Krauss: A Bibliography
A professor of art history at Columbia University, Rosalind Krauss is a specialist in 20th-century art. Formerly on the board of Artforum, she was also an original founder of October. Compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan, librarian at the University of California, Irvine. Covers works, 1964-1998, by Rosalind Krauss, plus reviews and selected texts about her work.

Books & Exhibition Catalogs, Electronic

University of California Press (eScholarship Editions) - UC access only
1400 online full text titles from University of California Press covering a wide range of subjects, including art, art criticism, art history, art theory, and art and architecture. Click on By Subject , for a title list by subject.

Dictionaries/Glossaries/Thesauri

Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Created by the Getty, this structured vocabulary can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and material culture. The AAT is a structured vocabulary of more than 133,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

ArtLex
ArtLex provides definitions for more than 3,300 terms used in discussing visual culture, including thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross references.

Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
This electronic edition is not a verbatim transcription of the original, in that minor corrections have been made in the body of definitions where the original text contained obvious and unambiguous typographical errors. These have not been noted, so readers should consult the printed text when in doubt. In most cases, defined terms (whether descriptors or lead-in terms) have been left as they were in the printed text. Exceptions to this rule are discussed in textual notes.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms - UCB access only
From Baroque to Postmodernism, batik to mezzotint, and canvas to porcelain, provides succinct and accessible explanations of over 1,800 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world.

Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
Medieval art and architecture terms compiled by Jane Vadnal of the University of Pittsburg. Includes supporting images and cross references.

Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians
Published by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, this glossary covers specialized terms used by art historians in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, with a U.S. English index.

Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The TGN is a structured, world-coverage vocabulary of 1.3 million names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
ULAN, published by the Getty Research Institute, is a structured vocabulary that contains over 250,000 names and other information about artists. Coverage is from Antiquity to the present, and the geographical scope is global. The scope includes any individual or corporate body involved in the design or creation of art and architecture. The focus of each record is the artist. Linked to each record are names, relationships (including student-teacher relationships), locations (for birth, death, and activity), important dates (such as for birth and death), notes, and sources for the data. Names for any artist can include the vernacular, English, other languages, natural order, inverted order, nicknames, and pseudonyms. The database is updated monthly. ULAN typically has more variant names and better biographical information than the Library of Congress’s Name Authority File.

Electronic Mail Art

CROSSES of Mail Art
Mail art forum including worldwide mail art links. Developed by Hans Braumüller, a Chilean-German visual artist.

Electronic Museum of Mail Art (EMMA)
The objectives of EMMA are to introduce electronic and (snail) mail art communities to one another, develop the concept of e-mail art, encourage e-mail art interactivity, and to promote image exchange. Included is an extensive list of websites related to e-mail art, featuring Correspondence of Ray Johnson. Edited by Chuck Welsh, who has written extensively about mail art. Includes online issues of Netshaker Online, and contents for Eternal Network: A Mail Art Anthology.

Encyclopedias/Biographical Sources

AskART - UCB access only
Includes information for over 123,000 artists. International coverage. Entries for artists may include biographical information, images, exhibitions, and auction records. Includes separate directories of art museums and dealers.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists - UCB access only
Based on the Oxford Dictionary of Art, this is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western Art from ancient Greece to the present day. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, Impressionism, the Ashcan School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing. 2,500 entries.

Dictionary of Art Historians: A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art
An index of art historians mentioned in major art historiographies, including Eugene Kleinbauer's Research Guide to the History of Western Art (1982) and his Modern Perspectives in Western Art History (1971), Heinrich Dilly's Kunstgeschichte als Institution (1979) and some of Kultermann's Geschichte der Kunstgeschichte (1966). The database is designed to give researchers a beginning point to finding information on the background of major art historians of western art history. Edited by Lee Sorenson, art reference librarian, Duke University.

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art - UCB access only
Broad coverage of painting, sculpture, and graphic art, encompassing all the major movements and styles of the twentieth-century, including entries on art schools, galleries, exhibitions, prizes, terms, techniques, collectors, critics, dealers and patrons. Features many of the interesting figures at the periphery of modern art.

Encyclopedia of Aesthetics - UCB access only
Featuring more than 600 articles by more than 500 art historians, philosophers, and theorists, provides coverage of historical accounts and critical discussions on the subject and covers the full breadth of critical thought on art, culture, and society. Surveys major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts, from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture.

Grove Art Online - UCB access only
Grove Art Online contains the full-text of The Dictionary of Art (ed. Jane Turner, 1996) the landmark encyclopedia of world art from prehistory to the present in over 45,000 articles. Since its launch in 1998, Grove Art Online has added over 700 new articles and over 5,500 updated articles. Grove Art Online also includes all 2,800 articles from The Oxford Companion to Western Art [OCWA] (ed. Hugh Brigstocke, 2001) and continues to offer new content and revisions on a quarterly basis. Grove Art Online offers over 1500 colour images and line drawings; links to the Art Resource searchable image database; and links to over 40,000 images on museum and gallery websites. For copyright reasons, Grove Art Online cannot publish all of the images in the print edition online.

Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture - UCB access only
Encompassing over four thousand years and with over 1,000 entries, spans every art form, medium and civilization, from Cycladic, Minoan, Helladic, and Etruscan art to the fall of the Roman Empire. Features in-depth articles, including biographies and thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture. Art historical and cultural information about art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, renowned works of art, archaeological sites and stylistic developments.

Oxford Art Online - UCB access only
Gateway into art research and access point for Oxford art reference resources, including Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Oxford Companion to the Photograph - UCB access only
Over 800 biographical entries, both on photographers and on others who have influenced photographic culture from the 19th century to the present, plus a wide range of technical information. Over 1,600 entries in total.

Oxford Companion to Western Art - UCB access only
In-depth coverage of Western Art with entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of materials and techniques. Critical appreciation and factual information on over 1700 artists from classical times to the 20th century are included with 49 feature articles covering a broad spectrum of topics from art history and its methods to wall painting. 2,600 entries.

Oxford Dictionary of Art - UCB access only
Its focus on the Western world, provides both fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present. Over 3,800 entries.

WAAND / Women Artists Archives National Directory
Directs users to archival repositories in the U.S. with collections of primary source material about women visual artists active in the U.S. after 1945 in addition to primary source material about the organizations, collectives, publications, alternative spaces, and artists' communities where the artists worked or continue to work. The Collections Database describes the primary source material for each artist (or organization, collective, publication, alternative space, artists' community) that is held by the repository.

Image Databases

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - UC access only
This Archive is a primary source database from the Associated Press that takes users on a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. The archive contains over 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary, since late 1995, with the earliest from 1840. Older photos are being scanned and added for earlier periods. The Archive features two databases: International Photo Archive; Euro/Asian Photo Archive. International Photo Archive features state, regional, and national photos from North America, as well as the best of the international photo report made since late 1995. The Euro/Asian Photo Archive features thousands of regional photos dating from 1995, plus a selection of historical images from Europe and Asia. Also includes a selection of pictures from a 50 million image print and negative library dating from 1884-present. Click on Search link at the top of the page; then enter search information in the What/When/Where windows provided at the top of the page.
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African & Asian Visual Artists Archive
The most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period. The archive houses over 6,000 slides of artworks and exhibitions, as well as publications and videos about and by artists. There are over 200 individual artist folders, as well as curators, art historians, cultural critics and arts organization files. AAVAA is searchable by keyword, including title, artist, subject, technique, and description. Sponsored by University of East London.

AHDS Visual Arts
Located at The Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, AHDS' mission is to support research, learning and teaching by providing visual arts digital resources, as well as advising in all areas of digital creation, use and management. Materials cover all subject areas of the visual arts, including their practice, study and curation. Image databases featured are the Imperial War Museum, London College of Fashion, National Arts Education Archive, amongst others. Access and services are free to higher education sectors, though one-time registration is required. To search images, click on "Search Images" located in the top, left-hand column; you will then be required to fill out a brief registration form.

American Memory
Created by the Library of Congress, American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.

American Museum of Photography
Virtual museum dedicated to educating, informing, and sharing photographs. Site includes over 5,000 images from daguerreotype portraits to Ansel Adams. Established by William M. Becker, historian of photography.

ARTstor - UCB access only
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Highlights of some of the special collections include: Huntington Archive of Asian Art, The Illustrated Bartsch, The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection, Native American Art and Culture from the Smithsonian Institution. Additionally, digital image collections from many major museums are included, i.e., Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Harvard University Art Museums, Frick Collection, LA County Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and numerous others.
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Note to Mac users: For offsite access, you must use VPN (Virtual Private Network)

The Beazley Archive
The Beazley Archive is the largest single collection of images (over 27,000) from Greek vases, and is excellently indexed, not only by painter, vase shape, location, etc. but by subject. A good place to find images from both classical myths and from everyday life, with full scholarly apparatus.

Biblioteca Ambrosiana -- Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings
In cooperation with the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, Italy, Professor Robert Randolf Coleman of the University of Notre Dame is producing this inventory-catalogue of the Ambrosiana's collection of some 12,000 drawings by European artists who were active from the fourteenth through nineteenth centuries.

British Museum
Currently includes 279,713 objects in the online collection, of which 126,401 have one or more images.

Web access is automatic if you click on "Dyabola Databases" from UCB Library computers. On the screen, check the box labeled "IP-Zugang", then click on "Start", then choose Census database. To access these databases from off campus, please consult the UC Berkeley Library Proxy Server Service for complete information and instructions.

Accessing using Mac OSX: Only Safari and Netscape are supported for access through the proxy server for Dyabola databases. Even if you are accessing from on-campus locations, we recommend using these browsers to avoid service interruptions.

COMPASS
An on-line database featuring around 5,000 objects that reflect the range of the British Museum's collections. Features numerous links, background information and maps. Each object is illustrated with high quality images that you can enlarge.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum : CVAOnline
A searchable collection of more than 100,000 digital images of decorated Greek pottery, drawn from the illustrations of the out-of-print fascicles of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. The print version of CVA is arranged by country, then by holding institution, and surveys comprehensively collections of Greek vases in museums around the world.

CORSAIR
A collaboration between the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Index of Christian Art, CORSAIR provides access to more than 5,000 digital images from the Morgan Library’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, spanning some ten centuries of Western illumination. Includes a complete list of manuscripts with images in CORSAIR.

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection - UC access only
Containing over 13,600 maps online, the collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the world, Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented. Collection categories include antique atlas, globe, school geography, maritime chart, state, county, city, pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps. The collection can be used to study history, genealogy and family history.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
Produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, with support from the Chipstone Foundation of Fox Point, Wisconsin. The Chipstone Collection contains over 400 images of more than 100 pieces of Early American furniture. The database also provides full-text electronic facsimiles of texts significant for the study of American decorative arts and material culture.

Digital Scriptorium
Published by the University of California Berkeley, the Digital Scriptorium is an image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. Note that separate searches are available for the Huntington Library's collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts as well as images from selected from Census of Petrarch Manuscripts.

Enluminures Database
Contains 14,000 selected images from over a thousand illuminated manuscripts preserved by French public libraries.

Estate Project for Artists with Aids Virtual Collection
The Estate Project for Artists with Aids Virtual Collection is a database of high quality images representing the works of artists with HIV/AIDS. It includes 4,000 images, photography, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, etc. drawn from the collections of Visual AIDS, Visual AIDS/Boston, Visual Aid/San Francisco, and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center.

Farber Gravestone Collection - UC access only
The Farber Gravestone Collection documents gravestone sculpture, mostly prior to 1800. These early stones are both a significant form of artistic creation and records of biographical information, such as name, death date of the deceased, stone location, and information concerning the stone material, iconography, the inscription, and (when known) the carver.

Gemini (Graphic Editions Limited)
Published by the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), this online catalogue raisonné features publications of the Los Angeles print and sculpture workshop from its beginning in 1966 through 1996. Includes more than seventeen hundred print and sculpture editions by artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jasper Johns.

George Ortiz Collection
The George Ortiz Collection, regarded as an important private collection of ancient art and ethnography, is available on-line as an academic resource. Included are 20 key works from the collection presented in 3-D format. Fully searchable catalogue entries are available for each object, as well as glossaries.

Getty Research Library, Photo Study Collection
The Getty Research Library's Photo Study Collection, a work in progress, contains approximately two million photographs that document works of art and architecture. Approximately half of the Getty photographic holdings are represented.

Google Image Search
Database of over one billion indexed images. To use image search, simply type your query in the image search box and click the "Search" button or hit "Enter" on your keyboard. When you see the results page, click on the thumbnail version of the picture you want to view. This displays a larger version of the image, as well as the page on which the original image is located. Advanced search recommended.

Hartill - UC access only
Approximately 20,000 high quality slides. The images reproduce architecture and the built environment from antiquity to the present, and include thousands of details of architectural sculpture, mosaics and stained glass. Note that the Hartill collection is also available via ARTstor.

Helios: Photography Online
Online collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum Photography Collection.

Himalayan Art
The mission of the Himalayan Art Project is to create a comprehensive research archive of Himalayan and Tibetan art. The project identifies and catalogues paintings, sculpture, block prints, initiation cards and murals from museum, university and private collections around the world.

Hoover Institution Poster Collection - UC access only
The Hoover Institution Archives Poster Collection includes political posters from around the world. Thousands of posters date from World War I and World War II, though the posters cover the entire twentieth century. Posters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Russian empire and the Soviet Union, and France are well represented, but also included are posters from more than eighty countries. The online collection consists of selected Russian posters. Additional images from other countries will be added.

ICONCLASS
Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system and a hierarchically ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine images represented in various media such as paintings, manuscripts, posters, photographs and newspaper clippings.

ImageBase
ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Japanese Historical Maps - UC access only
The Japanese Historical Maps Collection of the East Asian Library contains early maps of Japan and the world. Represented in this collection are a selection of maps and books. The maps were selected by Yuki Ishimatsu, Head of Japanese Collections at the East Asian Library at U.C. Berkeley. Noteworthy in the collection are a range of Japanese city maps dating back 300 years.

Joconde Database
Entirely in French and operated by the Direction des Musées de France, the database provides over 135,000 works, 21,500 of which contain images of drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture, photography and art objects. Representing over 80 French museums, the database spans the 17th century to the present. Each record provides highly detailed information on a work of art, including artist, date of birth/death, location, dimensions, etc. For a guided search, click on "Recherche guidée"--This link provides alphabetical lists of Artists, Schools, Museums, Subjects and Literary Sources. To access the search engine, click on "Recherche experte."

The Kidder Smith Slide Archives on American Architecture
Selected images from the 3,400 slides in the Kidder Smith Slide Archives at MIT. The slide archive systematically covers 805 buildings from the pre-Columbian period to 1978 and includes sequences of 6 to 10 or more slides for some buildings. Approximately 2000 of the slides document mid- and late- 20th century buildings, with special attention to the 1950s and 1960s.

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
A complete documentation of the frescoes of the upper church of San Francesco in Assisi, undertaken in 1977 by Luigi Artini.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collections Online
This searchable database includes approximately 45,000 records and 25,000 images from a wide variety of LACMA curatorial departments.

LUCI - UC access only
The Library of UC Images contains 3,690 images on ancient Greek and Roman antiquities and California art and architecture.

Map History/History of Cartography by Tom Campbell
Includes map images listing over 1,200 sites that lead to digitized images of early maps. The section is arranged by geographical region, with listings of the larger sites and a page on themes.

Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (National Library of the Netherlands)
Includes over 10,000 images from 400+ manuscripts.This database contains information about the illuminated medieval manuscripts of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum. Searchable in German, French or English.

MOAC (Museums in the Online Archive of California) - UCB access only
The MOAC collection contains a selection of images from 7 California museums and libraries including the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Japanese American National Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Covers all time periods.
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Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
Includes digital records of Europe's collections.

NYPL Digital Gallery
Access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Online Archive of California (OAC)
Online Archive of California (OAC), in partnership with the California Digital Library (CDL), is a digital resource providing access to materials held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California. Primary sources include letters, diaries, manuscripts, photographs and other pictorial items, architectural records, artwork, artifacts,ephemera, etc. Advanced searching available.

Parker on the Web Prototype
A collaborative project between Stanford University Libraries, the University of Cambridge and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will eventually provide hundreds of medieval manuscripts available on the Internet. The prototype version includes the Matthew Paris Chronica Maiora manuscripts. Users must register (at no cost) in order to search the prototype version.

Photographic Portraits of American Artists from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection
Created by the fine art photography firm Peter A. Juley & Son, this group of 4,700 photographs records a broad range of artists. Highlights include portraits of Thomas Hart Benton, Selma Burke, Alexander Calder, Edward Hopper, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, etc. Some of the images show artists in their studios or offer glimpses into the artistic and social climate in which they worked.

Picture Collection Online
Includes 30,000 digitized images, mostly pre-1923, from the New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, Picture Collection. Images derive from books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, prints and postcards. Subjects include clothing & dress, costume, design, fashion drawings, New York City, etc. May be browsed by image titles, names, subjects, author and title. Search fields include creator/author/name, title, subject, source code, and image id.

Portfolio (Princeton University Library)
Includes images from the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, including photographs, portraits, illuminated manuscripts and miniatures, illustrated books, and works of art on paper.

Réunion des Musées Nationaux Photo Agency
More than 100,000 color transparencies and 500,000 black-and-white negatives relating to works of art in France's national museums: paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, drawings and photographs. Also includes 120,000 glass plates (the Fonds Vizzavona-Druet) documenting artistic life in the first half of the twentieth century. Offers a representative survey of the history of art, archaeology, architecture, and ethnology. English version available.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Collections Access Online
Search for specific artworks or artists in SFMOMA's collections, or browse by artist, medium or subject. The database represents only a portion of the collection.

Saskia - UCB access only
Founded in 1966, Saskia publisher offers more than 26,000 high-quality, digital art historical images with a special emphasis on core images required for teaching the history of Western art. Saskia has documented many of the world's prominent collections including the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Uffizi Palace, and the Prado as well as many important archaeological sites including Ephesus, Pergamum, and Mycenae to support teaching at universities, libraries and museums around the world.

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WHAT'S NEW!

SEARCH THIS SITE

Art Indexes

Art Portals

Auction-Related Information

Bibliographies

Books & Exhibition Catalogs, Electronic

Dictionaries/Glossaries/Thesauri

Electronic Mail Art

Encyclopedias/Biographical Sources

Image Databases

Journals, Electronic

Journals, Print

Library Catalogs

Museums, Bay Area

Museums, Worldwide

Organizations, Art-Related

Research Guides

Copyright © 2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Last updated 4/21/08. Server manager: Contact

Copyright © 2008 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Last updated 4/21/08. Server manager: Contact