Art History
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Background Information
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Background InformationUse the databases below to find definitions and other basic information about your topic; for a more comprehensive list, consult Research Tools: Background Information
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Oxford Art OnlineStart here for background information on artists, artistic media, and art movements. This tool comprises these important reference works: Grove Art Online, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Oxford Companion to Western Art.
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Encyclopedia Britannica OnlineFind basic information and clarify terms in any field of study.
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WikipediaUse cautiously for quick information - but verify in scholarly resources if used for research.
Search for Articles
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Search for ArticlesUse the databases below as a starting point to identify scholarly journal articles on your topic; for a more comprehensive list, consult Research Tools: Journal Articles.
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Academic Search UltimateA scholarly, full text database that indexes academic journals in nearly every academic field of study.
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Art Full TextCovering journals published from 1985 to the present, look here for citations and some full text of scholarly and popular journals in the field; for older articles from these journals, search Art Index Retrospective below.
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Art Index RetrospectiveCovering journals published from 1929 to 1984, look here for citations and some full text of scholarly and popular journals in the field.
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International Bibliography of Art (IBA)Look here for scholarly articles published from 2008 to the present; for older materials in the same sources, use BHA below.
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Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)Preceding IBA, above, use this index for scholarly articles published between 1975 and 2007.
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JSTORSearch this archive of full-text scholarly journals spanning a number of disciplines.
Google Custom
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Search art museum websites in U.S., Canada, and many European countries
Featured Resource
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KubicatSearch the collective catalog systems of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome.