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Art Research
| Indexes and Full-Text Databases |
Finding Journal ArticlesTo begin a project that requires current art and related information, you can use the following electronic databases and resources. All are available on campus at The University Center however some are specific to individual partner libraries. In those cases, you will have to use a login/password for access. |
| Academic
Search Premier (On Campus) although not exclusively art indexes, will provide articles that deal with art topics and some could be the full text of the article. |
| Biography
& Genealogy Master Index (On Campus) Use to find biographical information on contemporary artists and designers. |
| netLibrary
(Register at TUC for Off-Campus Access) provides access to a comprehensive collection of full-text eBooks, including many that will help with art research assignments. |
| ProQuest Direct (PVAMU, UH or Montgomery College) |
| Lexis-Nexis
(SHSU, TAMU or Montgomery College) Also provides some journal articles and newspapers articles on art topics. This articles are generally not academic in nature. |
| Art on the Web ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| Artcyclopedia
- The Fine Art Search Engine "The guide to museum-quality art on the internet." |
| Aesthetics
Online "A Society for the Philosophy, Theory and Criticism of the Arts. The American Society for Aesthetics sponsors four annual conferences, publishes the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and the ASA Newsletter." |
| American
Council for the Arts A national organization that supports the arts and culture through private and public resources. |
| ARLIS
Art Libraries Society of North America The Art Libraries Society promotes general knowledge of the public concerning art librarianship and visual resources. |
| ArtSource:
Links to Art and Architecture Resources Worldwide One of the most important sites for gathering a multiplicity of art information and sites including architecture resources, art/architecture gopher sites, art journals, image collections, museum information, organizations, etc. |
| Art on the Net |
| Arts Topic Links to selected Art web sites from Librarian's Index to the Internet |
| FineArt
Forum "This directory is meant to serve as a resource and jumping-off place for people interested in art, and in the possible relationships between art and technology." It includes conferences, festivals, events, some excellent academic resources,a comprehensive list of museums, etc. |
| Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Science, and Technology |
| SIRIS The catalog of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information Systems which includes five catalogs available for searching. They include: Library Catalog; Art Inventories Catalog; Archives & Manuscripts Catalog; Research /Bibliographies Catalog; and the Smithsonian Chronology Catalog. |
| Art History on the Web ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| The
Art History Research Centre "The AHRC is the first and foremost tool for art historical research on the internet. It shares key resources and methods of online research so that art historians can find the resources relevant to their work. Novices may wish to read the short essay The Internet as a Research Medium for Art Historians. The AHRC is hosted at the Art History Server at Concordia University, Canada" |
| ArtServe:
Art History Resources Online Australian National University Art History Server |
| Art
Historians' Guide to the Movies "The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies. It is intended to be a source for teachers of art history who are considering showing clips or entire films as part of their presentation of the traditional arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture." |
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Art History 101 from About.com |
| Art
History Resources on the Web Maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History Sweet Briar College, Virginia |
| Gardner's
Art Through the Ages: 11th Edition |
| Getty
Research Institute Gives the scope of the art history information programs sponsored by the Institute as well as searchable databases. An excellent site for doing Art History research. |
| The
Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology "The Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology, founded in 1984, is a component of the Department of Art of The University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee (USA), and is a Tennessee Center of Excellence. It is dedicated to the study of the art and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education. As part of its teaching and research, the Institute conducts an epigraphic survey in the Great Hypostyle Hall of Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt." |
| English Server Art and Architecture Resources |
| Mother
of All Art History Link Pages This web site is now maintained by Patrick Young with the help of graduate students at the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan. |
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Timelines
of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Seven
Wonders of the Ancient World "Six out of seven Ancient Wonders did not survive to this present day. Here is an alphabetical listing of some Forgotten, Modern, and Natural Wonders." |
| Artists, Styles & Movements on the Web ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| Art - Movements & Periods |
| Artist
Dictionary/Biographies at About.com "You can find hundreds of entries in the 200 page artist dictionary/biographies section. Each primarily short entry features date of birth, date of death, nationality, type of work, style/period and what the artist was (is) best known for." |
| Art
Guide "The Art Lover's Guide to Britain and Ireland." |
| Diego
Rivera Web Museum "The virtual museum devoted to the Mexican muralist on the internet." A wonderful visual experience. |
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Exploring
Leonardo |
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The Mattress Factory: Contemporary Artists on the Web |
| International
Center of Medieval Art "Founded in 1956, seeks to promote the study of the visual arts of the Middle Ages in Europe. Its worldwide membership includes academics, museum professionals, collectors and other enthusiasts. ICMA publishes a scholarly journal, Gesta; a newsletter; a list of dissertations on medieval art; and two continuing series, The Census of Romanesque Sculpture in North American Collections and The Census of Gothic Sculpture in North American Collections." |
| Michelangelo
Buonarroti An excellent comprehensive web site with biographical information, photographs of his more famous works. A beautifully designed site, it uses time periods to organize the information. |
| Claude
Monet's House and Garden |
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Picasso on the Web |
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Rembrandt Website |
| Research
on Surrealism in America |
| Salvador Dali |
| Totally
Tessellated: M. C. Escher "Here you will find a brief bibliography, and introduction to Escher's collective works, and a section on his tessellations, including an analysis of a selection of Escher's best, and instructions on how to create some of your own." |
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The Victorian Web: Arts and Culture of the Victorian Era |
| Yahoo's List of Artists |
| Art Education on the Web ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| Art
Studio Chalkboard "These pages are a resource for artists and art students that focus on the technical fundamentals of perspective, shading, color and painting. They were compiled and designed by Ralph Larmann, art faculty member in the University of Evansville Art Department, and are intended for educational use only." |
| Americans
for the Arts: Arts Education "AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS is the nation's leading arts information clearinghouse and advocacy organization -- with a forty year record of objective arts industry research -- dedicated to serving communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all the arts." |
| Education at the Getty "The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and the humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation." Art Educators' guide to lessons plans and resources online. |
| ARTSEDGE:
The National Arts and Education Information Network "ARTSEDGE supports the place of arts education at the center of the curriculum through the creative and appropriate uses of technology. ARTSEDGE helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts." From The Kennedy Center and MCI WorldCom. |
| Commentary
on Art An introduction to writing about art. Assignments, readings, and other information. By Jerrold Maddox, Penn State University |
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The Crayola Art Education Site "Gathering ideas for engaging your students? Crayola.com Lesson Plans are rich hands-on learning experiences, linked with core curriculum standards." |
| Art Galleries and Museums on the Internet ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| Virtual
Library Museum Page A distributed directory of online museums. |
| Art
Museum Network Online The official web site of the world's leading art museums since 1996. |
| The
Art Institute of Chicago Museum |
| CGFA
- A Virtual Art Museum A broad gallery that includes biographies and images for hundreds of well-known American, French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Japanese artists, such as Botticelli, Cezanne, Dali, da Vinci, Goya, Klee, Klimt, Monet, Munch, O'Keefe, Raphael, Rubens and Vermeer. |
| Cleveland
Museum of Art "Welcome to one of the world's great art museums, a favorite destination for art lovers and casual visitors alike. The collection of more than 40,000 works of art ranges over 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present, and includes masterpieces from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It is renowned for its superb quality and cultural breadth." |
| Contemporary
Art Museum Houston |
| Detroit
Institute of Arts |
| The
Freer Gallery of Art and The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The National Museum of Asian Art for the United States |
| Guggenheim
Museum Online |
| J.
Paul Getty Museum |
| Musee
du Louvre-Paris Virtual visit to the museum with panoramic pictures |
| Life in Ancient Egypt An introduction to The Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. |
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Louvre Museum Official Website |
| The
Menil Collection Houston area museum includes interactive maps, exhibition and collection images & information. |
| The
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| MOIFA:
Museum of International Folk Art Online "The Museum of International Folk Art is a unit of the Museum of New Mexico which operates four museums and five monuments throughout the state." |
| Musee
Online "An interactive directory to museums' collections including art, science, history, zoos, archaeology and aquariums, etc. providing links to their educational, entertainment, archive and shopping features." |
| Museum
of Ancient and Modern Art "Northern California's unique Art Museum" |
| Museum
of Fine Arts - Houston Special exhibitions are featured including the Splendors of Ancient Egypt |
| Museum
of Fine Arts - Boston |
| Museum
of Modern Art (NYC) |
| Museum
information from ArtSource |
| Museums
from Yahoo's Directory |
| National
Gallery of Art: Index of American Design |
| National
Gallery of Art -- the Collection "The National Gallery of Art, Washington houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present." |
| National
Gallery of Canada |
| National
Museum of American Art |
| The
National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution |
| Royal
Ontario Museum |
| San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Exploring
the Sistine Chapel Ceiling "Our images have been upgraded with our acquisition of slides of the Ceiling in its restored state. The new images include: five of the nine 'history' panels; seven of the twelve prophets and sibyls; and new images of spandrels, lunettes, medallions, and pendentives." |
| Capella
Sistina A virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel from The Vatican. |
| Smithsonian
Institution |
| The
USC Interactive Art Museum Removing the Barriers between Museums and their Constituencies |
| WebMuseum:
Bienvenue! |
| Whitney
Museum of American Art |
| Ceramic & Pottery Resources ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| Ceramics
Monthly "Founded in 1953, Ceramics Monthly is an internationally distributed magazine on ceramic art and craft. For ceramic news, as well as inspiration, there isn't a better source." |
| The Ancient Greek World - Pottery |
| Greek
Painted Pottery "In 1979 the Beazley Archive began a text database, on Oxford University's central computer, recording information about Athenian figure-decorated vases illustrated in publications available to the Ashmolean Library. There are now over 67,000 entries, with fourteen fields, including bibliographical references, find-place, shape and iconographical terms. In 1992 the Archive began to participate in a European Union project (RAMA) linking the collections of seven museums across Europe via the Internet. This project enabled the Beazley Archive to begin digitising its photographs and drawings. So far, more than 27,000 images have been linked to the textual records, and this enhanced version of the original database is now available on the Beazley Archive web site." |
| The Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art |
| Shapes of Greek Vases |
| Perseus Project Home Pages |
| The Ceramics Web |
| JHP Pottery Tutorial Page |
| Pottery Making Illustrated |
| Studio Potter |
| Virtual Ceramics Exhibits |
| Virtual Library: Ceramic Arts |
| Art Publications on the Web ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| ArtDaily The first art newspaper on the net. |
| ArtNet
Magazine "artnet.com is internationally recognized as the premier site on the web for art content and e-commerce. Through its online auctions, member galleries, printstore, artists' web sites, magazine, bookstore, art research tools and resources, artnet.com empowers people from around the world to make art a part of their lives." |
| fineArt
Forum Art and technology net news |
| Journal
of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "Established in 1942 by the American Society for Aesthetics, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism publishes current research articles, symposia, special issues, and timely book reviews in aesthetics and the arts." |
| Journals
and Zines The "Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research" by Alan Liu, English Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106 |
| Finding Images on the Web ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| SILS
Art Image Browser "This is a database of art, architectural, and museum object images. The images included in the database currently come from four collections: University of Michigan Museum of Art, Kelsey Museum of Archeology, Slide and Photograph Collection, Department of the History of Art, Los Angeles Chicano Murals, and the Private Photograph Collection, Susan Atkins." |
| AICT
- Art Images for College Teaching "AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community." |
| Image
Galleries & Exhibitions Sponsored by the Getty Research Institute, this database retrieval system is an excellent resource for finding images on the Internet. |
| Digital
Image Collection from the University of Virginia "The Digital Media Lab of the Robertson Media Center is a digital media support facility that is the result of a collaboration between the University of Virginia Library and the division of Information, Technology and Communications (ITC). It also creates, collects and provides access to digital collections, including digital versions of the library's traditional materials." |
| Amazing
Picture Machine Good for educational uses, from the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium. |
| AltaVista
Image Search "Finds pictures anywhere on the Web or on the sites of AltaVista partners, proven suppliers of quality images. Searches the AltaVista index and returns those pages that contain images associated with text that matches your query. AltaVista also stores information about the visual qualities of images, so it can display a list of images "similar to" a given image." |
| Classroom
ClipArt: Clipart for Students Site contains over 19,000 photographs, clipart, and historical images designed for use for educational purposes. Searchable or browse by topical areas. |
| Ditto "ditto.com delivers highly relevant thumbnail images – and the highly relevant sites that host the original images – to any browser in the world.ditto.com has compiled the largest searchable index of visual content on the Internet." |
| Google Image Search |
| KidsClick!:
Image Search Tools Twenty-two image and art search tools on one page. Includes: Diggit Image Search, Pics4Learning, ZOONET Archives, Smithsonian Photo Data Base, SILS Art Image Browser, the Astronomical Image Library, and more. |
| Lycos
Pictures The Lycos Image Gallery search engine. |
| Orazio
Centaro's Art Images on the Web "The most complete catalogue of art images on the web." |
| Pics4Learning "Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers." |
| TimePix "Time, Inc. is putting online hundreds of thousands of photographs from its collection of more than 20 million photos taken since the 1930s for its publications, including Time, Life, People, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Time-Life Books. In addition, they've added more than a million historical images (prints, illustrations, and photographs) from the London Mansell Collection. An excellent search engine and help files. Registration (free) required." |
| Glossary/Dictionary of Art ** [Return to TABLE OF CONTENTS ] ** |
| ArtLex:
Visual Arts Dictionary "You will find definitions of more than 3,300 terms here, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web." |
| Art
& Architecture Thesaurus "The AAT is composed of terms that represent discrete concepts. This makes the thesaurus more powerful and versatile. Therefore, the term "Baroque cathedrals" will not be found in the AAT; this phrase must be constructed from separate AAT terms. "Baroque" is in the Styles and Periods hierarchy; "cathedrals" is in the Single Built Works hierarchy, under "<churches by location or context>." When the two concepts are combined they retain their individual meanings: They mean structures that are built in the Baroque style and serve as cathedrals (the seat of a bishop)." |
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