Key Databases for Art History
- Primo This link opens in a new windowPrimo is the library's search engine for books at Watzek Library and at Pacific Northwest Academic Libraries via the Summit delivery system. It also contains audiovisual materials like DVDs and CDs as well as journal articles and ebooks.
- Art Full Text This link opens in a new windowFull text, abstracts, and indexing of an international array of publications.
Key Online Reference Sources
- Grove Art Online This link opens in a new windowA searchable, regularly updated electronic version of Grove's Dictionary of Art, this is the key electronic reference source for visual art.
- Encyclopedia of AestheticsOnline version of the "comprehensive survey of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts."
Specialized Databases for Art History
- Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowProvides an introduction to the specialized literature on different topics in Art History, as well as other subjects.
- L'Année Philologique This link opens in a new windowAn index to scholarly work in fields related to the language, literature, history and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.
- Index of Medieval Art This link opens in a new windowFormerly the Index of Christian Art. The Index records works of art produced without geographical limitations from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400 (extended in the case of the Morgan and Princeton Library projects to include manuscript holdings up to the end of the sixteenth century). There is a particular emphasis and focus on art of the western world. Seventeen different media are represented in the archive, and these include manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, glass, and so forth.
