Print Sources | Databases | Internet Resources

Print Sources

• Most print resources on Art History are located in 700 and 709.
• Print resources on Paintings are located in 700, 709, and 759.
• Be sure to search the General and Reference sections of 700, 709, and 759.
• Print resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online Catalog for books.
• Some example search terms:
  • Art – History
  • Art, Baroque
  • Art, Italian
  • Painting, Dutch
  • Vermeer
• ~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library

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~ Biographies, magazine, and newspaper articles

~ Reference articles

~ Clipart, photos, fonts, and more

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~ Magazine and newspaper articles

~ Reference articles, magazines, newspapers, images, and TV/radio transcripts

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~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources

~ Reference, magazine/newspaper, and primary sources

~ Magazine and newspaper articles in the arts and humanities

~ Reference, magazine, newspaper, and primary sources

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Internet Resources

Art History

History

• Art History Resources on the Web ~ Search by time period or geographic region.
• Art History Periods and Movements ~ Categories from Yahoo Directory
• British Library - Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Mother of All Art & Art History Links ~ Mega-site from the University of Michigan. Click Research Resources and Image Collections.
• Timeline of Art History ~ from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Virtual Library Museums Pages ~ a directory of online museums
• Web Gallery of Art ~ "A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15.400 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available."

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Museums

• Art and Design at the Smithsonian ~ Washington D.C.
• Art at the Getty ~ the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
• Art Institute of Chicago
• The Guggenheim Museums ~ New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin, Las Vegas
• The Louvre ~ Paris
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art ~ New York
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) ~ New York
• Museums Around the World ~ A directory of museums around the world
• National Gallery of Art ~ Washington D.C.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum ~ Washington D.C.
• Tate Britain ~ "Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art...the entire Tate Collection is available online."
• WebMuseum Network ~ Click Famous Artworks to search for art by period, movement, or geographic area.

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Painting

• The Cave of Lascaux
• Claude Monet: Life and Art
• The Diego Rivera Mural Project
• Drawn by the Brush: Oil Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens
• Jackson Pollack: 1912- 1956 ~ from the National Gallery of Art
• Pigments in Paintings: How Artists Have Colored our Lives
• Shakespeare Illustrated ~ "a work in progress, explores nineteenth-century paintings,
  criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another.

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Photography

• American Museum of Photography
• Charles W. Cushman Photography
• Daguerrian Society
• Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
• The Digital Photography Exhibit
• International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
• The National Portrait Gallery
• Photomuse
• TimePix [Portfolio of photos from Time and Life Magazines]

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Reference

• Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine 
• ArtLex Art Dictionary
• Artnet
• Art on the Web
• ArtsJournal.com
• The British Library - Art Resources on the Web
• International Directory of Art Libraries
• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Created: 4/28/06 Last Update: 2/8/08 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org