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From web page: Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.
From database description:
This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications including: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.
Art Retrospective
From database description: An invaluable, in-depth record of contemporary art history, Art Index Retrospective allows users to search 55 years of art journalism at a keystroke. Users can research leading English-language sources, plus others published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Besides periodicals, users have access to data from important yearbooks and select museum bulletins.
Some of the subjects covered: Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles.
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ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) provides full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, PhD dissertations and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with more than 13,000 new entries being added each year.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA)
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The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its Web site.
The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
Index to 19th Century American Art Periodicals
Description:
42 art periodicals published in the United States during the 19th century.
Oxford Art Online
Includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
ARTstor
From database: The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities and sciences.
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The British School at Rome: Library and Archive Digital Collections
This collection includes Photographs but also other resources: Maps, Prints, Documents, Postcards, Drawings, Paintings and Manuscripts.
From database: Design and Applied Arts Index is the leading source of abstracts and bibliographic records for articles, news items and reviews published in design and applied arts periodicals from 1973 onwards.
From web page: With more than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources, JSTOR is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content which includes art related materials.
Humanities International Complete
Academic and magazine articles in the humanities including the arts.
LexisNexis Academic
Great source for newspaper articles around the world as well as government information.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
A bibliography comprised of secondary source material pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). Citations for books and journal material (articles, reviews, review articles, bibliographies, abstracts and discographies) are included, as are citations for dissertation abstracts and essays in books (including entries in conference proceedings, festschriften, encyclopedias and exhibition catalogues).
A major source for peer reviewed scholarly articles including those in the arts with full text. From database:
100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
World History Collection
Articles in world history including Art.
New York Times Historic Archive
The US newspaper of record! Coverage going back to the 1800s includes exhibition reviews.
OED-Oxford English Dictionary
The definitive record of the English language.