Research Guides
Art: Art History
This guide offers the top recommended resources for Art, Art History, and Design.
Art History Databases
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Art Full TextComprehensive resource covering fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as photography, folk art, film, and architecture. 1995 - present.
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Arts & Humanities Citation IndexVended Periodical Index. Coverage: 1975 - Present
"Multidisciplinary index 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. For journal directory, click here."
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Art Index RetrospectiveIndex to articles about art published in scholarly journals, art dissertations, magazines, and art reproductions. 1929 to 1984.
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) -2007The name BHA has been used informally to refer to a group of databases: RAA, RILA, BHA, and IBA. Includes most of the prominent European-language art journals and its focus is western (European) art. BHA ended in 2007. International Bibliography of Art is the successor to BHA.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online18th century English-language publications in the humanities, arts, and sciences
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Facsimile FinderFree Public Online Database
A comprehensive catalog of fine facsimile editions, created with librarians in mind. A super-fast search engine that delivers descriptions, photos and prices in just a few clicks. Search, compare and find the best facsimiles at the best prices.
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Index of Medieval ArtInformation on photographic reproductions of Christian art from early apostolic times through A.D. 1400.
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International Bibliography of ArtDefinitive resource for scholarly literature on western art.
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ULAN- Union List of Artist NamesFree Public Online Database
The standard thesaurus of artists' names, based upon the several operating programs of the Getty Information Institute (formerly the Art History Information Program). Increasingly used in cataloging art objects, image collections, etc. Useful to the scholar for tracing variant forms of artists' names.
Archives and Research Resources
"Over four million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more."
International Foundation for Art Research
Two electronic resources — a database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation.
An innovative web directory to U.S. archival collections of primary source materials by and about women visual artists active in the U.S. since 1945.
World Art Visual arts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America within the context of international art processes.
A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 419 billion archived web pages.
The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. The Portal is free to all users.
Museum of Modern Art Exhibition History
Exhibitions from its founding in 1929 to the present are available online. These pages are updated continually.