Selected Internet Sources in Art and Art History

Library Online Catalogs

The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities Online Catalog (IRIS). - WWW version.
• California Institute of Arts Library Catalog
• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
• Watsonline The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library Catalog
• DADA, Online Catalog of the Museum of Modern Art
• The Library, Courtauld Institute of Art
• National Art Library Computer Catalogue Information, Victoria and Albert Museum
• Centre Georges Pompidou Museum Documentation Center
• Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Catalog 
• Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)
• See also catalogs available through MELVYL

 

Periodical Indexes

• International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) available on the Getty aka site.
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) which updates RILA above. Subfile of FRANCIS which is available via Eureka on telnet MELVYL - connect to MELVYL via telnet and type "eureka" at the cursor, the type fra and then bha.
• Art Abstracts - connect to MELVYL via telnet and type "art" at the cursor.
• Art Abstracts - connect to MELVYL via the WWW and select "ArtAbstracts(@OCLC)" from database options.

Art Libraries and Institutes

• GARLIC ~ Gallery of Art Research Libraries In California
• ARLIS/NA GUIDE TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB~ Web Sites of Art Library and Visual Resources Collections
• Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and Humanities
• The Getty Information Institute
• National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
• Art Libraries and Resources in NYC

Lists of Websites

• Research Resources in Art History
• AALN - American Arts and Letters Network - Created by the American Council of Learned Societies
• ArtSource - This site provides an extensive listing of art and architecture websites
• INFOMINE Scholarly Internet Resource Collection-Classified, annotated list of sites created by the University of California
• American Studies Web: Art and Material Culture
• ARLIS/NA : Guide to the World Wide Web (Art Libraries Society of North America)
• Mother of All Art History Link Pages
• World Wide Arts Resources
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Art History
• Internet ArtResources
• ArtFact's Cool Links
• English Server at CMU Art and Architecture
• MEXMASTER Arte/Cultura
• Selected Art Resources on the World Wide Web
• ADAM art, design, architecture & media information gateway
• MOMA Research Resources
• Gateway to Art History - For use with Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Image Databases

• Christus Rex - This is the Vatican site which contains thousands of images of art ranging from details of the Sistine Chapel to museum holdings.
• Art Images for College Teaching
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Art Imagebase
• Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame
• The age of enlightenment - Contains collection of paintings from French Museums.
• GSA Cultural and Environmental Programs - Includes Art in Architecture and Fine Arts Collection databases.
• ANU Art History:ArtServe - Images of Art and Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin
• DIVA - Digital Images from the Visual Arts Library (Monash U. Australia)
• Corbis
• Arriba vista image searcher
• PhotoCollect Virtual Photography Gallery
• ARLIS/NA : Image Sites and Sources for Art and Architecture (Guide to the World Wide Web)
• University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies - Art Image Browser
• Fine Arts History and Humanities images for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• Digital Imaging Project - Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from Classical Greece to Post-Modern.

Research Aids

• Arts Library Electronic Information Center
• Selected Art Bibliographies
• Ten Important Art Reference Sources
• Finding Images, Pictures & Paintings
• Finding a Catalogue Raisonne for an Artist
• Words of Art: An On-line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts
• Glossary of Digital Images
• ARLIS/NA : Publications : Inside the Discipline, Outside the Paradigm: Keeping Track of the New Art History
• The ICONCLASS Home Page
• The Use of Visual Information in Art
• Analysis of Visual Images
• Art Historians: A Biographical Dictionary
• Surrealism
• Women Artists Bibliography - compiled by Shirley J. Schwarz
• Strategies for Finding Sources in Precolumbian Art
• Art on Film
• Iconografische Themas

Artists Indexes

• Union List of Artist Names
• Artists Index--World Wide Arts Resources
• WebMuseum
• art in context
• Salazar Library Women Artists Archive
• CJFA (Carol Jackson Fine Arts)
• Axis-The National Artists Registry
• Varo Registry of Women Artists
• World's Women Online
• Artists in Canada

Professional Sites

• College Art Association
• Association of Art History (AAH) Homepage
• National Endowment for the Arts Homepage
• Art Deadlines List
• AEOL (Art Education Online)
• The International Directory of Photography Historians
• ninch~National Initiative For A Networked Cultural Heritage
• The Alliance For The Arts - Home Page
• Fine Art Online WWW Resources Directory: Discussion
• Worldwide Books Online Encompassing more than 30,000 titles on art, architecture and photography
• fineArt forum online
• Welcome to Arts USA
• Western Alliance of Arts Administrators
• H-Net Job Guide
• Museum Employment Resource Center
• ArtsEdNet
• NetArts - Schools

Sites by Area, Period, or Genre

Classical Period

• Perseus Project Home Page - Located at Tufts, but a project of international scope, Perseus provides an extensive database with images and text of classical architectural sites and objects including coins and vases.
• Dionysos in Western Art
• Diotima's Visual Images Links (Women & Gender)
• 19th-Century Photography of Ancient Greece
• Western Art
• Medici Archive Project: Entrance
• ARTFL Project - This project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language located at the University of Chicago contains a number of image databases.
• LANIC - Latin American Network Information Center Art ppage
• Arts & History: Virtual Forum of Mexican Culture
• Mexico,Arte y,Cultura Folklore
• Americas Society
• Archive and Museum of Flemish Culture
• Leonardo da Vinci Websites
• The Rossetti Archive
• Frida Kahlo Home Page
• International Dada ArchiveThe University of Iowa Libraries
• The Arts & Crafts Movement Review...
• MYTHMEDIA - Mythology in Western Art
• The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery
• The Arts in Victorian Britain
• Pre-Raphaelite Overview
• Princeton Index of Christian Art. This site is available at UCLA only on the two Electronic Information Center machines in the Arts Library and in Arts Special Collections where the rest of the Index is housed.
• Non-Western Art
• Asian Arts
• Identity: American Indian Sites
• Islamic Language and Art resources (MSA @ SUNY/Buffalo)
• Perú - Pais Arqueológico
• The Mayan Epigraphic
• The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology
• African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
• Art and Life in Africa Online
• Trophies of Honor - Art Chronicles of Indigenous Peoples
• Emory University M. C. Carlos Museum - Permanent Collection
• Genres
• Center for Book Arts
• CBA - Paper, Art & the Book
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Ceramic Arts
• Mail Art Sites

Contemporary Art Sites

• ArtScene- Guide to Southern California Galleries and Museums
• Gallery Guide Online 
• Find Arts
• art in context
• Institute of International Visual Arts (UK)
• Axis-The National Artists Registry
• Varo Registry of Women Artists
• World's Women Online
• ArtNet(r) Worldwide
• The Artists Resource
• Art Resource Database
• Artists & Galleries Online in Australia
• Visual Artists in Canada Directory
• A R T W E B - Dutch Fine Arts
• Netherlands-menu: Kunst
• Artnoir Showcase
• Dia Center for the Arts, New York
• Center for Electronic Art
• Ars Electronica Center
• NAMES Project
• ArtAIDS Home Page
• The Kennedy Center's ArtEdge
• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
• Los Angeles Murals Home Page!
• Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles
• Plaza de la Raza
• Queer Arts Resources
• Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art - information, communication, action
• Critical Neon
• BME: Body Modification Ezine
• Womenhouse
• PLEXUS
• Art Links

Electronic Journals

• Welcome to TRANS
• Journal of Contemporary Art
• Journal of Postmodern Culture
• Modernism/Modernity Home Page
• Leonardo Electronic Almanac Home Page
• PARALLEL Gallery // Journal - two
• The Electronic Visual Arts Journal
• Art Times
• The Art Brief
• CHArt
• CurareCurare, Espacio Crítico para las Artes
• The Sleeping Dog

Museums

• Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources on the Web
• Yahoo - Arts:Museums
• Art Museum Network North America
• ArtNet(r) Worldwide
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
• Art Guide- Art Lover's Guide to Britain and Ireland
• UCMP Museum Resource Guides
• Library of Congress Exhibits
• The Smithsonian Web Site
• National Museum of American Art home page
• Artists for American Indians Virtual Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• UC/Riverside--California Museum of Photography
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
• Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
• Welcome to The National Palace Museum
• Museums of Paris
• Musées de Paris
• Paris Pages Musee du Louvre
• Artcom Museum Tour: Museum Of Neon Art, Los Angeles, CA
• American Museum of Photography a Virtual Museum

UCLA Websites

Los Angeles Websites

Last updated 11/11/98, Send e-mail to Web Administrator@ucla arts library