The Reference Shelf: Art and Architecture
About Body Art
Images and text about painting, piercing, scarring, tatooing, and shaping. From the Australian Museum. |
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Art History Resources on the Web
Extensive web site; arranged by country and time period. |
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Artist Colonies and Residency Programs
For writers and artists in all media. Listed by region (U.S.) and country. |
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ArtLex
Definitions for terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, quotations, and cross-references. |
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Dictionary of Architecture
Containing thousands of entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles, this is a highly comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary covering all periods of Western architectural history. It includes biographies of architects and others who have made a contribution to architecture, from Brunelleschi and Gropius to Le Corbusier and Brunel. A number of longer entries explain the different schools, from Bauhaus to the Federal Style, and set each movement in its historical context. |
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Dictionary of Art
A 34-volume, award-winning resource which serves as a unique guide to all the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, drawing, printmaking, as well as the decorative arts. The Dictionary ranges far both geographically and historically... Providing depth as well as breadth, The Dictionary of Art examines important art forms and key issues of design, taste, function, and patronage, illuminating them in light of the cultural context in which they developed. |
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Dictionary of Modern Design
From Art Nouveau to Postmodernism, Benetton to Frank Lloyd Wright, this dictionary covers the past 150 years of international design, with accessible and succinct entries on ceramics, furniture, graphics, industrial design, interiors, and fashion. Designers and manufacturers feature in a range of biographical entries, and the dictionary's international focus takes in major movements, key concepts, design terminology, and important design institutions, museums, and heritage sites |
Oxford
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The Great Buildings Collection
This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3-D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more. |
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The Louvre
Official web site of the Louvre Museum. Over 35,000 images online. |
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Oxford Dictionary of Art
Guide to the art of the Western world. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present. |
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
More than 18,000 images online, with more added daily. Both keyword searching and browsing by type and subject of work are enabled. (For example, browsing by type Folk Art and subject Animals retrieves almost 200 carvings, paintings, and more.) |
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North American Women Artists of the 20th Century
Professional and biographical information on women artists born before 1960 in Canada, Mexico, or the U.S., and who made a serious professional committment to the visual arts. Includes bibliographies. |
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Timeline of Art History
The timelines—accompanied by world and regional maps—provide a linear outline of art history, and allow visitors to compare and contrast art from around the globe at any time in history. |
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Virtual Library Museum Pages
These pages provide an eclectic collection of WWW services connected with museums, galleries and archives. |
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Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available. |
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