Art History - Catalogs
- Art Full TextArt Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from art and architecture periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.
In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Coverage: Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997. - OpenBibArt - History of Art BibliographyOpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS).
OpenBibArt reviews the literature on arts from Late Antiquity to the present day, providing access to close to 1.2 million of bibliographic records of periodicals, books, exhibition and auction catalogues, published between 1910 and 2007.
Art History - Dictionaries + Encyclopedies
- Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and ArchitectureIncludes entries from biographies to thematic entries on architecture, ceramics, metalwork, mosaics, painting and sculpture. The resource provides art historical and cultural information about art forms, artists, rulers, philosophers, architecture, renowned works of art, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. Updates related longer entries in Grove Art Online.
- Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in ArtOn materials in art practice (ink, enamel, digital materials); materials in conservation (e.g. adhesives); classes of artifacts (e.g. wallpaper, mosaic, ceramic); techniques and methods (book binding, gilding, printing, weaving), terms, tools, theory (technical examination, conservation controversies), fakes & forgeries, and conservation theorists and practitioners.
- Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon - Internationale Künstlerdatenbank - Online"The database Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon Online / Artists of the World Online is the world's most contemporary, reliable and extensive reference work on artists. It contains authoritative, up-to-date biographical information on more than 1 million artists - more than any other database in the world!"
- A Global Guide to Islamic ArtList of Islamic Museums worldwide. Written by Jonathan M. Bloom and Sheila S. Blair, the authors of the three-volume Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (2009).
- Benezit dictionary of artistsThe Benezit Dictionary of Artists is now available online for the first time via Oxford Art Online. With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language.
- The Index of Medieval ArtFormerly known as Index of Christian Art, from Princeton University.
Art History - Full Texts Databases ( keyword searchable)
- Signum - la biblioteca delle fonti storico-artisticheSignum – Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The Library of hystorical-artistic sources - born from the collaboration between the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento of Florence and Signum - is a project that offers to users digital versions of texts considered meaningful exemplars of the historical-artistic debate during the 16th century.
- Getty Research PortalAccess to digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.
- IRDS - Italian Renaissance Document SideThis website is a fully searchable database of the published documents relating to a number of Italian Renaissance artists (University of Kent).
Periodicals Indices & Abstracts
- Art Full TextArt Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from art and architecture periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.
In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Coverage: Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.
- Burlington Magazine Online IndexThe Burlington Magazine Publications Ltd has created an Online Index which includes the entire content of The Burlington Magazine dating from March 1903 until December 2002 (NB – currently up to December 1977, work on more recent years is in progress).
- Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsThe Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals provides a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, historic preservation, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Over 2500 publications are indexed, including scholarly and popular literature, professional association publications, US state and regional periodicals, and major publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Obituary citations have also been included. The index now incorporates 60,000 records from the 10-volume Burnham Index to Architectural Literature, published by the Art Institute of Chicago, adding additional coverage of Midwestern periodicals. The Avery Index is a copyrighted product of the Getty Trust and the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
- BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art) + RILA (Répertoire de la litterature de l'art)The Web side offers both basic and advanced search modules, and can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements. Note that the database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. RILA covers the years 1975–1989.
- Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984)The Art Index Retrospective is a periodical literature database that cumulates citations from the printed version of the Art Index, volumes 1-32 (1929-1984). The database cites articles from periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins internationally in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch publications. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective also indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in the periodicals covered. Subjects covered in the Art Index Retrospective include archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, folk art, crafts, antiques, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, motion pictures, museology, non-western art, and television. Coverage: 1929-1984.
- Index to 19th Century American Art PeriodicalsIndexed are 42 art journals published in the US during the 19th century, providing nearly complete coverage of journals from this period (articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements. Information on popular culture, industry, artists, illustrators, painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, architecture, design, exhibitions, sales, decorations). Coverage: 1840 to 1907
- caa.reviewsPublishes timely scholarly and critical reviews of studies and projects in all areas and periods of art history, visual studies, and the fine arts,providing peer review for the disciplines served by the College Art Association. Publications and projects reviewed include books, articles, exhibitions, conferences, and other works as appropriate. It also publishes peer-reviewed essays on these subjects, as well as on art education and policy and related topics. Coverage: 1998-present
- International bibliography of artCovers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. The IBA is the definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art, and is published exclusively by ProQuest. IBA is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records were created in 2008-2009, and cover scholarship up to 2009, including retrospective records for material published in previous years. ProQuest will be building on this by adding 25,000 new records per year going forwards, ensuring unbroken coverage of indexed journals.