11. VISUAL RESOURCES
Indexes to Sources of Illustrations
Bartsch, Adam von. Le Peintre Graveur. 21 vols. (1802-1921) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 800 B28]
[Bartsch] The Illustrated Bartsch. (TIB) (1978 to date ) Hundreds of vols. [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 800 B2812] [Images also currently available Online within ArtStor {see below this section}] Illustrations to A. Bartsch's classic catalog of prints listed above.
Courtauld Institute Illustration Archive. [Scattered parts at Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library] Series 1: Cathedrals and monastic buildings in the British Isles; Series 2: 15th and 16th century sculpture in Italy; Series 3: Medieval architecture and sculpture in Europe; Series 4: Late 18th and 19th century sculpture in the British Isles
Hollstein, F. W. H. Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, Woodcuts, 1450-1700. (1949 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 662 H72]
__________________. German Engravings, Etchings, Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (1954 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 651 H72]
Iconclass Indexes: Italian Prints. (1987 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 659 Ic7] {see Iconclass described in section 11} Iconclass Indexes: Dutch Prints. (1994 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 663 Ic7] {see Iconclass described in section 11} Iconclass Indexes: Early German Prints. (1995 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 651 Ic7] {see Iconclass described in section 11} Iconclass Indexes: Rembrandt and his School. (2000 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference ND653 R28 L35] {see Iconclass described in section 11} Iconclass Indexes: Early Netherlandish Prints. (2002 to date) [Avery Fine Arts Reference ND635 Ic7] {see Iconclass described in section 11}
Parry, P. Print Index. (1983) [Avery Fine Arts Reference NE 850 P24] Index to reproductions of prints in books.
Wright, C. World's Master Paintings: From the Early Renaissance to the Present Day. 2 vols. (1992) [Avery Fine Arts Reference N 910 W93] Works list of 1,300 painters and a guide to their locations.
Microfiche Archives
Many photographic collections are published on microform. In addition to the titles included below, Avery Library owns microforms sets of: Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; The Archeological Museum of Naples; Trade catalogs in the Avery Library, etc.
Marburger Index. [Avery Microfiche FX 3 1207] Microfiche version of Foto Marburg photographic archive, which is attempting to reproduce all art in German collections. Handbook: [Fine Arts Ref N 6861 M32.] Subject access through index of Iconclass {see Iconclass described in section 11} [Fine Arts Ref N 7640 Aw11.] (Much of the Marburger Index appears on www.bildindex.de)
Index Photographique de l'Art en France. [Avery Microfiche FX 3 1206] Similar to the Marburger above for items in France. Project ceased.
Image Archives and Collections
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive. (Online, 1844 to date) Associated Press Photo Archive.
American Memory. (Online) A part of the Library of Congress, offers vast array of American historical materials. Organized by thematic collections.
ArtStor. (Online) Over 300,000 images of art held by museums, archives, libraries, private collections.
Bildindex der Kunst und Architekture (Bildarchiv Foto Marburg's Image Index of Art and Architecture). (Online: http://www.bildindex.de) Photoarchive of images of art and architecture, a small subset of which are visible at this site. This photoarchive sells its images for publication.
Beazley Archive. (Online: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/BeazleyAdmin/Script2/default.htm) Housed at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Literae Humaniores, this database offers photographs, notes, drawings, etc. on ancient Greek and Roman art.
Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance. (Online:http://www.census.de/) Director: Arnold Nesselrath. Interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity, a focus of Renaissance studies. Registered are the antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data. The Census is a useful tool of research, not only in the field of art history and archaeology, but also for any discipline focusing on the afterlife of the antiquity.
Columbia Image Bank. (Online--turn off pop up blockers) Images required for teaching of Western art history from the Neolithic period to the present, including images from major collections such as the Louvre, the Uffizi, the Prado, etc.
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. (Online) Digitized copy of the corpus of antique vases held in collections worldwide. Avery AK3800 C... (Paper version)
DIAL: Decimal Index of the Art of the Low Countries. [At Columbia University, Art History & Archaeology, Visual Media Center] Photographic archive of Dutch and Flemish fine arts of 16-18th centuries. Arr. by Iconclass. {See also Section 11 on Iconography.}
Grove Art Online. (Within Oxford Art Online) Contains some images from encyclopedia articles and links to images found in museum web sites.
Indianmonuments.org (Online: http://www.indiamonuments.org/) An archive of 27,000 high quality photographs taken by Benoy K. Behl of monuments, paintings and other aspects of cultural history, as well as scenic views all over India and in many places around the world. (Identified online and in CLIO as photographs archive)
Princeton Index of Christian Art. [Princeton University] {For details, see section 11: Index of Christian Art Database}
Special Digital Collections. (Online: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?AUL7496) (Path: Library Web -- E-Resources -- E-Images) Columbia Libraries designed web page linking to local digital projects, including Greene & Green architectural records, Joseph Urban stage design models & documents and others.
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