Library

Visual Arts Resources

Arts	Art History
Image Collections	Music
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Print Indexes

Humanities Index: 1974-Present
A cumulative subject and author index to humanities topics, including archaelogy, classical studies, performing arts, and language and literature. Also includes a separate book review section, with entry under author of the book reviewed. Updated quarterly.

Art Index: 1959-Present
A cumulative index to the periodical literature of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, crafts, motion pictures, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, photography & related fields. Selected yearbooks and museum bulletins are also indexed.

Arts

Internet Public Library Design Reference
A guide to web sites about costuming, periods & styles, architecture and art movements.

Drawing Materials & Drawing Techniques
An online glossary containing brief historical and practical information as well as some examples of materials and techniques used in drawing.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Ceramics
Find links to WWW resources, organizations, commerical sites and more about ceramics and technical ceramics from around the world.

World Wide Art Resources
Links to galleries, artists, museums and informational sites in the visual and performing arts.

Surfing the Net with Kids: Arts and Crafts
A small collection of kid-friendly links to arts and craft projects on the web.

Worldwide Books Online
This is a searchable database of international exhibition catalogues published since 1960 and books printed by trade and university presses since 1992.

CAA.Reviews
This online publication from the College Art Association is a "peer review of new books, exhibitions, and projects relevant to the fields of art and art history."

Art History

Voice of the Shuttle: Art & Art History Page
Large collection of art resources including art history links arranged by time period.

Art History Research Centre
Key resources and methods of online research to help art historians find reseources relevant to their work.

Timeline of Art History
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated
especially by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own collection.

HuntFor Art History
This is a pictorial gateway to art history resources. Arranged by time period.

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages
Hosted by the University of Michigan, this is an enormous collection of links to art history departments, research resources, image collections, online exhibits and more.

Art History: A Preliminary Handbook
A primer for the study and evaluation of art.

Art History Resources on the Web
This is an extensive listing of web links maintained by Professor Chris Witcombe at Sweet Briar College.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
A collection of links for academics relating to art history and computer applications in art history.

Getty Provenance Index Database
"Contains information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art, primarily of Western European paintings."

Image Collections

National Gallery of Art
A collection of over 4700 digitized images including detailed information about the object and its provenance.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Includes over 70,000 images from the museum's collections; from cermaics to paintings to porcelains. Click on the Art Imagebase icon to search the collection.

Web Gallery of Art
"The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 11,000 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available."

Artcyclopedia
This guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet links to about 100,000 works by 7500 artists.

Art Images for College Teaching
"AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community." Images are re-sizable and have a brief description attached.

Cupola's Building and Structure Galleries
Images of architecture from various periods.

American Museum of Photography
Online photography exhibits and access to the museum's research library.

Archives of American Art
From the Smithsonian Institution, a primary materials repository of "letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation" along with "catalogues, papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators, museums and related organizations."

Music

ChoralNet
The official website of the International Federation of Choral Music. Click on Resources and Links for additional web resources.

Music Education Resource Base
Indexes 32 music and music education journals form 1956 to present. Citations only, no full-text.

Music History
A guide to Western composers and their music from the Middle Ages to the present, complete with RealAudio sound clips.

Musicology and Music History Resources
From the Music Library at Indiana University, a list of 42 international Internet resources.

Last Updated: March 7, 2008