I. Databases: Syracuse University Library
A. Art:
Abstracts for journal articles in 400 key international, English-language arts publications, includes periodicals, yearbooks, museum bulletins, competition and award notices, exhibition listings, interviews, and film reviews.
Index for articles from 1929-1984. Bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art index. It contains records for world visual culture items from prehistory to 1984 in the fields of archaeology, architecture, art history, city planning, computer applications and graphics, crafts, film, folk art, graphic arts, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, museology, painting, photography, sculpture, television, textiles, and video.
Full abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations, and exhibition reviews on all forms of modern and contemporary art, with approximately 13,000 new entries being added each year. Entries date back as far as the late 1960s. Includes information on modern and contemporary arts dating from the late 19th century onwards, and including photography since its invention. Contains abstracts of English and foreign-language material on famous and lesser-known artists, movements, and trends. Includes performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists' books, theatre arts, conservation, crafts, ceramic and glass art, ethnic arts, graphic and museum design, fashion, and calligraphy, as well as traditional media including illustration, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
Indexes articles from arts and humanities journals plus relevant articles from over 5,000 social science and science journals. Includes additional records providing the preferred form of cited authors' names. 1980 to present.
Bibliography of the History of Art
Covering Western art from Early Christian to the present, BHA indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Updated quarterly. 1973 to present.
SCIPIO: Art & Rare Book Sales Catalog
Descriptive records of art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held. Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works. Updated daily.
B. Humanities:
Index and abstracts providing historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.
Index and abstracts to 465 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Indexing from February 1984 to the present, abstracts from March 1994. Updated monthly.
International Index to Music Periodicals
IIMP draws its current content from 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. IIMP also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. Included in the current and retrospective titles are 29 complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial-run titles. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
International Medieval Bibliography
Bibliography of journal articles and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften) comprising 300,000 articles. Updated quarterly the IMB-Online covers publications from 1967-present with enhanced search capabilities (by periods, places, persons, and texts).
A fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American literature.
C. General:
General and Interdisciplinary
Description: Full text articles and images from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Spans all academic disciplines from arts and humanities to social sciences, science, and technology.Full text files focusing on legal (federal, state, national) news (newspapers, newswires, transcripts), business and industry information. Access Note: SU only.
II. Databases: World Wide Web
230,000 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, sound recordings, films, and organizational records, from nine repositories. 100,000+ scanned images available online. Click on Archival, Manuscripts, and Photographic Collections.
Searchable database with free access to museums, dealers, auction houses, travel, professional associations, glossary, and various other categories of interest.
Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
An "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."
Reference resources, databases, and links.
Covers 136,000 works of art from 84 public French collections (17th century to the present).
Smithsonian American Art Museum Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture
Together the Inventories of American Painting & Sculpture reference over 360,000 works in public and private collections nationwide, and include records from Save Outdoor Sculpture! Images have not yet been digitized; however, many photographs are available for study in the Smithsonian offices. Click on Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Databases, and then on Art Inventories.
III. Image Databases
SU Library Picture File (headings only)
This resource, located in the Fine Arts Limited Access Collection on the 4th floor of Bird Library, contains images clipped from magazines on a wide variety of topics, arranged alphabetically by subject.
Database comprised of more than 450,000 photos from the Associated Press News Services and their archive. Coverage is from the 1850s to the present, although there are only a few hundred photos dating before 1900. Access note: Requires Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher (PC) or Netscape Navigator, version 4.0.8 to 4.7 only (PC or MAC)'. Once connected, choose "Enter the Archive."
AICT (Art Images for College Teaching)
A free-use image resource for the educational community, covering ancient, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18-20th century, and non-Western art.
Bridgeman Archive (available at Grove Dictionary of Art Online)
A leading source of art images, representing museums, galleries, and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of fine art for image users.
Links to various Christianity-related image and text sites.
Finding Images on the Web (Boston University Library Site)
Links to image databases and search engines.
This collection consists of scanned images from various periods of Western art which depict the deities and heroes mentioned in Homer.
Thinker ImageBase (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
Search 85,000 art images from the permanent collections of the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
IV. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Database of 7500+ artists, searchable by artist, title, and museum; browse by movement, medium, subject, nationality, alphabetical name, and women.
Definitions for 3300+ terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations, and cross-references.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
V. Guides to Resources
Italian Renaissance Art
Provides citiations to sources in print and links to electronic databases available at Syracuse University Library.
 
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