Reference and data sources for Art and Art History
There are a number of online and print reference and data sources available:
| Reference and data sources online | |
|---|---|
| Art and Architecture Thesaurus ® online | From the Getty Museum |
| Artcyclopedia | Articles on artists, works and movements with links to external images and info |
| ArtLex Art Dictionary | Definitions with supporting images |
| Artonline | Information on artists and art collections |
| Artists’ Papers Register | A location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland |
| Digital Library for the decorative arts and material cultures | Links to a range of full-text resources |
| Timeline of Art History | From the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Visual Arts Data Service | Database of digital images for use in art education |
| Web Gallery of Art | Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture 1100-1850 |
| WorldImages | Database of images covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License |
| Print Resources | |
|---|---|
| The complete dictionary of symbols in myth, art and literature | IC 302.222303 (C |
| The concise Oxford dictionary of art and artists | IC 703 (C) |
| The concise Oxford dictionary of art terms | IC 703 (C) |
| Dictionary of Art | WBL REF703 (D) |
| A dictionary of art and artists | WBL REF 703 (M) |
| A dictionary of art titles | IC 703 (R) |
| Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art | WBL REF 704.94603 (H) IC 704.94603 (H) |
| An illustrated dictionary of words used in art and archaeology | IC 703 (M) |
| International dictionary of art and artists | WBL REF 703 (I) |
| The Oxford dictionary of art | IC 703 (O) |
| The Thames & Hudson dictionary of art terms | IC 703 (L) |