Subject Guide for Art: Art History
Research Databases
Art Fulltext (1984+) International periodical coverage includes journals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT NetID & Password required
Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) International periodical coverage includes yearbooks, and museum bulletins. UT Password required
ARTBibliographies Modern Indexes journal articles, exhibition catalogs and books. Includes all forms of contemporary art including performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, textile art, and graphic design. UT NetID & Password required
Art Museum Image Gallery Over 155,000 superior quality images gathered from the collections of museums around the world. Covers a broad range of time and place including both decorative and fine arts. Many records include curatorial text, provenance data, detail or multiple views and related multimedia. UT NetID & Password required
Bibliography of the History of Art Indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Covers European and American art from late antiquity to the present. UT NetID & Password required
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums, highlighting the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times. UT NetID & Password required
Design and Applied Arts Index (1973+) Indexes design and craft journals and newspapers. Includes news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Covers all design fields including furniture, interiors, textile, graphic, multimedia, packaging, and theater. UT NetID & Password required
Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus A comprehensive controlled vocabulary of nearly 125,000 terms for describing objects, textural materials, images, architecture and material culture from antiquity to the present.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online Provides access to over 45,000 signed articles with over 22,000 image links. Provides extensive coverage of all visual arts from prehistoric times to present day with a multicultural scope. UT NetID & Password required
World Biographical Dictionary of Artists (International Artists Database) This online edition of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon contains information on visual artists from all over the world and throughout the ages, from antiquity to the present. Although the search interface and some of the search terms are available in English, the biographical full-text entries are in German only. UT NetID & Password required
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Biographical Materials
- Artcyclopedia
- ArtLex Art Dictionary
- Ask Artists Bluebook biographical information for American artists
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- Oxford Reference Online provides access to art and architecture dictionaries
- Symbols Dictionary
- Timeline of Art History
- Union List of Artist Names A structured vocabulary that contains around 220,000 names and other information about artists. The coverage of ULAN is from Antiquity to present, and the scope is global.
African & Oceanic Art
- Africa The Art of a Continent (Guggenheim Museum)
- African Art Museum
- African Life Through Art: Cycles
- African Studies Companion Guide to information sources, print and online
- AllAfrica
- Artheos.Org covers art from West Africa including numerous images
- Arts Council of the African Studies Association
- British Museum collection of African art
- Modern African Art: A Basic Reading List compiled by Janet Stanley (National Museum of African Art Library)
- National Museum of African Art
- Oceanic Art Society
- Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture
- Tribal Arts
Ancient & Prehistoric Art
- Aegean Art
- Ancient Art & Architecture
- Biblical Art on the Web
- Etruscan Art
- Museums, Archaological Sites and Monuments of Greece
- Old Stones Art & Archaeology of Rome, Egypt, India and Japan
- Perseus Digital Library
Asian Art
- American Council for Southern Asian Art
- Art & Architecture Mediterranean Basin & Japan
- Asian Arts Online journal
- Bibliography of Asian Studies UT NetID & Password required
- Bibliography of Contemporary Chinese Art
- Chronology of Japan's Fine Arts
- Guide to the Bibliography of Asian Art & Culture in UT Special Collections
- Siku Quanshu (Complete Library of the Four Branches of Literature) is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the 18th century. It was compiled during the years 1773-1782 and contains 3,460 works, totaling more than 36,000 volumes. The Wenyuange edition was produced in 1782. This is a Chinese Language database. UT NetID & Password required
- Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Visualization
Baroque & Renaissance Art
Medieval Art
- Bibliographies for the Study of Medieval Art
- Glossary of Medieval Art & Architecture
- International Center of Medieval Art
- International Medieval Bibliography Contains articles on medieval subjects and history, with an index containing reference to personal names, medieval and modern place names, subjects, texts and manuscripts. UT NetID & Password required
- Images of Medieval Art & Architecture
- Labyrinth Resources for Medieval Studies
19th Century Art
- Arts in Victorian Britain
- Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide A journal of nineteenth-century visual culture
20th Century & Contemporary Art
Women in Art
- Art Women.org
- Images of Women in Ancient Art
- Varo Registry of Women Artists
- Women Artists in History
- Women's Caucus for Art
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Jennifer Benedetto Beals
Art & Architecture Librarian
JBeals@utk.edu
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27 March, 2008