Subject guides: Art History and Theory: Articles & more

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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.
Art History Resources on the Web
This guide has been produced by staff at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, since 1995.
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.
Art history
a leading open educational resource for art history. High-quality introductory art history content is freely available. They offer nearly 500 videos.
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.
Modern and contemporary Asian art: a working bibliography
by John Clark. Sydney : University of Sydney, 2009.
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.
BHA and RILA
Bibliography of the History of Art and Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art provided by the Getty. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1973-2007. For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
OpenBibArt (alt. acess to BHA and RILA)
The enhancement site "OpenBibArt" offers open access consultation, to all the bibliographical references from the Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie and from the Bibliographie d'Histoire de l'Art produced by INIST-CNRS.
Islamic Heritage Project
Through the Islamic Heritage Project (IHP), Harvard University has cataloged, conserved, and digitized hundreds of Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from Harvard’s renowned library and museum collections.
Nazi records of looted art
The website was created using the archives of the German agency tasked with cataloguing the plundered art works from 1940 to 1944 - the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg.
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This database brings together for the first time in searchable illustrated form the remaining registration cards and photographs produced by the ERR covering more than 30,000 art objects taken from Jews in German-occupied France and, to a lesser extent, in Belgium. Searchable by individual objects and by the owners from whom these objects were taken, the database is a detailed record of a small but important part of the vast seizure of cultural property that was integral to the Holocaust.
Art Gallery of NSW Research Library
Exhibition catalogues and pamphlets, books, manuscripts and ephemera.
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The library’s catalogue reflect the Gallery’s artwork collection areas, with an emphasis on Australian and British art and in more recent years contemporary art, Asian art and photography. Our ephemera files documenting Australian art and artists now comprise over three-quarters of a million items, beginning with early exhibition catalogues and pamphlets through to catalogues and reviews of current shows. The library also holds extensive files on Australian art societies, competitions, prizes and art institutions as well as press clippings on the arts. It also houses the archives.

Online Reference

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."
Gale Virtual Reference
Includes the International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers and the St James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
Oxford Reference Online
Comprises over 175 cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Includes many titles in Art, Design, Architecture and History
Oxford English Dictionary
Online access to the 20 volume second edition.
Artcyclopedia