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• A password to open the files. The password is assigned specifically to your instructor's readings. You MUST GET THE PASSWORD FROM YOUR INSTRUCTOR.
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These are library resources that require a log in with your SAM (Student email) account.

Oxford Reference Online offers access to the following reference books:

• The Oxford Dictionary of American Arts and Artists
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
• THe Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art
• A Dictionary of Modern Design
• The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
• A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
• The Oxford Companion to Western Art

Academic Search Complete

Provides full text for nearly 5,318 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, biological & ecological sciences, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. ASC can also be searched for over 180,000 image files.

Searching the image collection in ASC:

• On the top toolbar, click More. From the resulting drop-down menu, select Images. The Image Collections Search Screen appears.
• Enter your search terms for the image you want in the Find field
• Click Search. A Result List consisting of thumbnail images with brief descriptions appears.

VC/UHV Library Online Catalog

Use to search for books and other materials in the VC/UHV Library. The library has many books and videos on Art History. Do a search on this subject term Art-History to see what's available in the library. No login is required unless you are accessing an electronic book.

 

 

Websites

Art Images for College Teaching

Intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access,
free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.

Artcyclopedia

Dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world's most comprehensive centralized database about American artists and to the inclusion of painters, sculptors, and illustrators. Contains detailed information on nearly 28,000 American artists. Also provides directories of museums, dealers, auction houses, and professional organizations and a glossary of art terms.

British Museum

Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history. You will find art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures.

 

 

The Louvre, Paris

Home to some of the most famous art pieces in history, this website offers virtual tours of the museum's collections as well as an analytical and interactive exploration of their most famous works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. The online site contains images and descriptions of many works in their collection.

Mother of All Art and Art History Links

Extremely useful as a gateway to more than 400 sites: academic, museum, commercial, and studio. Affiliated with the University of Michigan, the site is kept fairly current.

National Gallery of Art

Website of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Contains thousands of images of the collection with a searchable index.

Smithsonian Archives of American Art

Repository of primary materials. Has some 16 million documents--letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation--along with catalogues, papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators, museums and related organizations.

Vatican Museums

Contain masterpieces of painting, sculpture and other works of art collected by the popes through the centuries. The Museums include several monumental works of art, such as the Sistine Chapel, the Chapel of Beato Angelico, the Raphael Rooms and Loggia and the Borgia Apartment.

Web Gallery of Art

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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