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Articles

Art Full Text
Indexes more than 400 key international arts periodicals.   Subject coverage includes, art, art history, archaeology, architecture, design, photography, and other arts related fields.  Full text from 1997 onward is available for select publications.

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Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

America: History and Life
Historical coverage (including Art & Architecture) of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Articles from 1800 jouranls are indexed, same dating back to 1955. Art History & Architecture are also covered.

Humanities Abstracts
Contains citations from more than 600 periodicals in archaeology and classical studies, area studies, communication, folklore, history, language, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

Art Index Retrospective
A companion to Art Full Text, this database provides citations to older articles published between 1929 - 1984 in international arts periodicals. 

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Indexing of over 1200 periodicals, some going back as far as 1907.  Also has coverage of many important scientific journals up to the 1950s.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages & Renaissance
A bibliography of articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, and encyclopedia entries pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 - 1700 AD). This material has been collected from 10,360 publications, including 1,710 journals.

International Medieval BibliographyCall Number: Reference D 111 I63
An index of journal articles, conference proceedings, Festschriften, and collected essays covering all aspects of medieval studies from 450 to 1500 on the continent of Europe and the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim Conquest.

Index to Nineteenth Century American Art PeriodicalsCall Number: Reference N 6510 .S35 1999
This two volume set indexes about 40 American art periodicals that were published during the 19th century.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Dictionary of Art. (Grove Dictionary of Art) Call Number: Reference N 31 D5 1996
This 34 volume set covers all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, and the decorative arts.  It includes articles on visual art from the prehistoric times to the present, biographies of artists, and 15,350 illustrations. Coverage is worldwide in scope--from Oceania to North America to Japan and Africa.

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Encyclopedia of the History of Classical ArchaeologyCall Number: Reference DE 5 .E5 1996

Encyclopedia of World Art. Call Number: Reference N 31 E4833

Primary Sources

Smithsonian Archive of American Art
A digitized collection of papers of artists and other archival material from the Archives of American Art including  letters, postcards, sketches, exhibition records, diaries, and other unique documents. The collection also includes transcripts of interviews with artists, collectors, gallery directors, and art historians.

Web Sites

Art History Resources on the Web
Links are arranged by time periods, Prehistoric to 20th Century. This site is maintained by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College.

Ancient Greek World
A virtual gallery from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

ArtCyclopedia
A searchable guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet.

National Gallery of Art