CAMIO Art Database. 95,000+ images from the history of art. (See Plough Library's Using CAMIO PowerPoint for instructions on how the database works.)

Click here for additional Humanities databases (includes Art).

The best starting point for any sort of research, databases are large collections of information which may include citations, abstracts, ebooks, fulltext articles from scholarly journals or magazines, images, multi-media files and more.

• NEW: Films on Demand - Art and Architecture. Includes videos on art history, art appreciation, photography, and applied art (drawing, painting, sculpture). VIDEOS.
  

Find Journals on Art.

Journals found here are available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases. Look for the name of the journal you are interested in, for example:

• african arts
• ceramics art and perception
• journal of interior design

• Arts Journal Daily News
• Artdaily.org
• The Art Newspaper
• Artforum
• ArtsJournal
• BOMBBlog: Provides emerging artists and writers a platform, in a variety of formats, to articulate and explore their ideas, their own work, and their practice in relation to their peers and predecessors

• Atlas of World Art, New York: Oxford University Press, (2004),  R700.9 O94 2004.
• Bridgeman Art Library Archive, London: Bridgeman (2008), Credo eBook. Includes 15,000+ images.
• Encyclopedia of World Art. 17 vol., McGraw-Hill (1967),  R703 M178.
• Grove encyclopedia of classical art and architecture. Oxford University Press, (2007),  R722 G76 2007.
• Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art. Oxford University Press, (2008), R703 G76 2008.
• Hutchinson Dictionary of Symbols in Art (2005), EBSCO ebook.
• World Art History and its Objects (2008), EBSCO ebook.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus: AATO contains more than 125,000 terms covering “fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture” and is more than a thesaurus, including brief definitions and a navigable hierarchical tree. Extensive and still growing, it includes historic and contemporary terms.

Art Babble: source of online videos from museums and art organizations about art and artists. VIDEOS.

Art Deadlines List: Art contests and competitions, grants, scholarships

Artjob.org: Comprehensive listing of career and employment opportunities.

ArtLex: Art Dictionary: Provides over 2600 definitions of terms covering all aspects of art, along with quotations, pronunciation notes, illustrations, and links to related websites.

AskART.com: Information on over 34,000 North American artists, including biographies, books and articles on artists, artwork for

Digital Art Source: Opening the World of Digital Art: Links to sites on different aspects of digital art, organized by category.

Journal of Contemporary Art: Interviews with and projects by contemporary artists.

WolframAlpha Colors: Compute properties of colors, specify colrs using RGB, CMYK, HSV, and other values. (TIP: anywhere you see a >>, you can click on it for more examples.)

Art History

Archives of American Art: Provides access to the largest collection of documents on the history of visual arts in the United States.

Art in Historical Context: Offers free public access to information added by curators, dealers, artists, writers and others from around the world.

Bibliography of the History of Art: the world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing on western art, freely available from the Getty.

SmartHistory: Online, interactive art history website; browse by time, style, artist, or theme; includes video files. 

Timeline of Art History: Chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of history of art from around the world, as illustrated by Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Images

TIP: See the Library's Images page for links to and descriptions of image galleries from government agencies, museums, and more.

• Art Images for College Teaching: Intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-use basis to all levels of the educational community.
• Art Project (powered by Google): Google's street view technology lets you virtually enter selected galleries of major world musems where you can see art works as they are displayed. Zoom in to view selected works in incredible detail. Museums currently involved in the project include the Freer, the Frick, MoMA, London's National Gallery, Versailles, the Hermitage, the Tate, the Uffizi, the Metropolitan, the Rijksmuseum, and more.
• Mark Harden's Artchive
• Artcyclopedia: Artcyclopedia is a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

Museums & Galleries

• Art Museum Network: The world’s largest and most prestigious art museums collaborate on AMN to provide information about their collections, exhibitions, and news.
• Louvre Museum Official Website
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• National Gallery of Art (US)
• National Portrait Gallery (UK)
• National Portrait Gallery (US)
• Saatchi Gallery of Contemporary Art (UK)
• Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery
• State Hermitage Museum: St. Petersburg, Russia
• Victoria & Albert Musuem
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• World Art Treasures: Information and images of art treasures around the world.