CCAD Packard Library: Latin American & Pre-Columbian Art: Reference

Art & Design History

A digital library images of art, design, history, and architecture.

A comprehensive online resource that offers coverage of art, architecture, design and crafts, from 1500 BCE to the present day.

An online gateway into art research, which provides access to the Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, and other resources.

Expert recommendation on the best works available in Art History by top scholars.

ArtxHistory
ArtxHistory is an education resource of commonly available images, videos, mini-lectures and scholarship of the decades which influenced or defined the mid-century through contemporary art.

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
Biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present.

Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus® Online
What is cinnabar? What is a rhyton? The Getty thesaurus contains terminology for art, architecture, decorative arts and other material culture.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Includes maps, time lines, thematic essays, and an index.
HENI Talks
Short films on art history from leading artists, curators, and academics.
The Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Art Web Archive
Collects publications in all formats that document contemporary art and artists of Latin America and the Caribbean from 1975 to the present.
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic supplement for the traditional art history text.
WikiArt
A not-for-profit online art encyclopedia.
WordReference.com
An excellent online dictionary covering dozens of languages.