CCAD Packard Library: Medieval Art: Reference

Art & Design History

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

A comprehensive online resource that offers coverage of interior, industrial, and graphic design and crafts, from 1500 BCE to the present day. Includes Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design and World History of Design.

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

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Art History

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

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AskART Academic This link opens in a new window
Information on historical and contemporary American artists, containing biographies, auction records, images, museum holdings, and bibliographies.
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.
Index of Medieval Art
A comprehensive database of iconography from the Middle Ages that has been cataloged and indexed to allow users to browse and search images based on subject, location, medium, and other facets
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Citations for books, journal articles, reviews, essays, etc., pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Mapping Paintings
Mapping Paintings is an attempt to compile and visualize provenance data for individual artworks, from owners to past locations to details of sales.
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.