Art History and Theory: Home

Other relevant Subject Guides include: Contemporary Art & Design, Film Studies, Media & Communications, Museum Studies

• eBooks for Art History and Theory  in the University of Sydney Library

• Some eJournals for Art History and Theory in the University of Sydney Library catalogue

• Databases for Art History 

• MET: TimeLine of Art History - both chronological and geographical. Each timeline page includes representative art from the Museum's collection, a chart of time periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events.
• Google - Art Project is a collaboration between Google and some of the world's most acclaimed and diverse art institutions. Museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries have contributed more than 40,000 high-resolution images of works, some are available in ‘gigapixel’ format, allowing you to zoom in at brushstroke level to examine incredible detail.
• History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History.
• Web Gallery of Art  is a virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 33.900 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music provided.
• Smarthistory a leading open educational resource for art history. High-quality introductory art history content is freely available. They offer nearly 500 videos.
• World Wide Arts Resources provides a site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artists and gallery portfolios.
• Art History Resources on the Web 
  This guide has been produced by staff at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, since 1995.
• ArtSource "a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture. The content is diverse and includes pointers to resources around the net as well as original materials submitted by librarians, artists, and art historians, etc.
• Modern and contemporary Asian art: a working bibliography by John Clark. Sydney : University of Sydney, 2005.
• Netdiver  Operating as a links page for new media art and artists, graphic designers, illustrators and photographers, Netdiver calls itself a "design + digital culture magazine that uncovers, reviews and publishes outstanding work by the international design community". The emphasis is on commercial applications of digital and new media.

• Art Cyclopedia 
• Gale Virtual Reference 
  Includes the International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers and the St James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
• Oxford Art Online  
  Useful for quick information on artists, art movements and the visual arts in general. Includes "Grove Art Online", "The Oxford Companion to Western Art", "Encyclopedia of Aesthetics" and "The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms."
• Oxford Reference Online  
  Comprises over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
• Oxford English Dictionary  
  Online access to the 20 volume second edition.