<
 |
Need help? Stop by or call the Reference Desk at 337-6600. |
CONTENTS
| Background Information |
- Grove Art -- REF N 31 .D5 1996
Note: This is an excellent place to begin. Covers painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and the performing arts, worldwide and all time periods. It is also available online, but restricted to the Gettysburg College community at:
Grove Art Online
- Biographical Dictionary of Artists -- REF N 40 .B53 1995
Includes colored, and black and white photographs of artists' works
- Encyclopedia of World Art -- Reference N 31 .E533
Covers all countries and all time periods. Subject matter covers painting, sculpture and architecture.
-
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art -- Reference N 33 M23
Information about artists' lives, artistic styles, periods, buildings, museums and art terms.
| Articles |
- Art Abstracts
(1984-present) Citations to articles, exhibitions, film reviews, and more (subject matter covers material from all time periods)
- Art Index Retrospective
(1929-1984) Citation to articles, exhibitions, film reviews, and more (subject matter covers material from all time periods)
- Grove Dictionary of Art
(1996-present) Full text articles covering subject matter from prehistory to the present.
- Humanities Abstracts
Provides citations to articles on all humanities subjects from 1984-present.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Provides citations to arts and humanities articles dated 1980-present.
| Encyclopedias & Dictionaries |
- ArtLex: Art Dictionary - definitions of more than 3,300 terms
- ArtCyclopedia - the guide to museum-quality art on the Internet
- Architecture Glossary
- Grove Dictionary of Art - (restricted to Gettysburg College) - an encyclopedia with full text articles (subject matter covers material from prehistory to the present)
| Images |
- The Artchive - a large database of images
- An Exhibition of Famous Paintings
- ArtCyclopedia - the guide to museum-quality art on the Internet
- Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- ArtServe - Australian National University. Image collection of prints from the 15th through 19th century and architecture and architectural sculpture from the Mediterranean.
- Information Databases and Image Banks - architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture from the Architecture Studies Library at UNLV.
- Architecture in Fine Prints - Georgetown University
- Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive
- Diego Rivera Web Museum
- Northern Renaissance ArtWeb
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - University of Virginia Library, Digital Image Center
- SPIRO, Architecture Image Database - University of California, Berkeley
- World Art Treasures
| Architecture |
- Architecture in Fine Prints - Georgetown University
- Digital Archive of European Architecture - images from the prehistoric into the 20th century - Boston College
- Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, images - University of Virginia
- SPIRO, Architecture Image Database - University of California, Berkeley
| Art History |
- Art History Network - resources for art history, archaeology and architecture
- Art History Resources on the Web - extensive and well-organized index of resources
- Architectural History - University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Medici Archive Project
- Northern Renaissance ArtWeb
| Museums |
-
Virtual Library of Museum Pages - worldwide links
-
The Museum Network - explore 33,000 museums worldwide
-
- American Museum of Photography
- Andy Warhol Museum - Pittsburgh
- Arizona State University Museum - Tempe, AZ
- Art Institute of Chicago
- British Museum
- Butler Institute of Fine Art - Youngstown, OH
- Carnegie Museum of Art - Pittsburgh
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dahesh Museum of Art - New York
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Frick Collection - New York
- Guggenheim Museums
- Harvard University Art Museums
- Kimbell Art Museum - Fort Worth, Texas
- Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum - Hungary
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
- Musée du Louvre - Paris, France
- Museum of Fine Arts - Boston
- Museum of Modern Art - New York
- National Gallery of Art - Washington, DC
- National Gallery of Canada - Ottawa, Ontario
- New Museum of Contemporary of Art - New York
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- San Francisco Museum of Fine Art
- Smithsonian Institution - Washington, DC
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - Richmond
- Winterthur Museum - Wilmington, Delaware
300 North Washington Street · Gettysburg, PA 17325