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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Art plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
Liaison
Liaison in charge: James T. Deffenbaugh
Research: Getting Started @ Swem
Database/Article Indexes
Print Resources
Background Information
Web Resources
- Art History Resources on the Web
This home page is especially good in its coverage of sites in the history of ancient and western European arts, though it does not neglect most areas of non-European art.
- Artcyclopedia .
Can be searched by artist's name, artworks by title, or art museums by name or location. The database of 7000+ great artists can be browsed by art movement (e.g., Pop Art, Impressionism), medium (e.g., sculptors, illustrators), subject (e.g., landscape painters), or by nationality.
- Artchive
This web site, also known as Mark Haden's Artchive after its originator, is a tour-de-force. All the following are accessible on this resource: reproductions of important artworks; critical essays on particular artists or artistic movements; reviews of art CD-ROM's; links to other valuable web sites; notes on exhibits and other noteworthy activities at important museums worldwide; and bibliographies accompanying most of the entries in all sections of the site structure.
- Artdaily.com .
Latest news from the art world. This daily online newspaper features artists, works, events, exhibition schedules, and related web links.
- Digital archive of American architecture .
Consists of almost 900 digitized images of American architecture. Originally a Boston College course web site, this home page also includes study guides for midterm and final exams, several walking tours in and around Boston, lists of buildings, and connection to numerous other architecture links.
- Images of medieval art and architecture.
Consists mostly of slide reproductions of important European cathedrals and religious art.
- MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).
Includes glimpses of recent exhibits (including full-text essays from exhibit catalogs), bibliographies for further study.
Mother of all art history links
A product of the Department of History of Art at the University of Michigan, this site includes sections of other university art history departments, research resources, resources for visual collections, online art and images, and links to a wide variety of topics relevant to art history (including art museums and sacred art).
- National Gallery of Art
Fine web resource on the collections, activities, and services of the U.S.'s finest and largest public-owned museum. The number of both small and enlarged colored images that can be retrieved from the site's "Collections" section is truly outstanding.
