Art History: Encyclopedias & Reference

Online Encyclopedia covering major ideas and concepts in Aesthetics.

Images and descriptions of classical vases organized by country and museum. This multi-volume ongoing corpus is shelved by itself near the Art & Architecture stacks.

The Illustrated Bartsch (TIB) is an extensive compendium of European master prints and commentary. Based on the 24 volume list, Le Peintre-Graveur, composed by Count Adam von Bartsch in the eighteenth century, it has grown to many more volumes written by art historians. The Illustrated Bartsch consists of images of European master prints from around 1400 until the arrival of the Industrial Revolution, around 1850.

Complete and extensive reproductions of German, Dutch, and Flemish prints created 1450-1700. Complete catalogues raisonnes of prints for major artists and designers.

Detailed reference information of reproductions of medieval stained glass, organized by country and church.

Compares the uses of iconographic themes from mythology, the Bible and other sacred texts, literature and popular culture in works of art through various periods, cultures and genres.

Covers all major Christian scenes, giving extensive information about their meaning and the history and evolution of their depiction in art.