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ArtSTOR

ARTstor is a digital image library containing approximately 300,000 art, architecture and archeology images.

AATA Online Abstracts of International Conservation Literature; Getty

Provides high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management.

Art and Architecture Thesaurus; Getty

More than 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

Art Inventories Catalog; Smithsonian

Over 300,000 records describing American paintings and sculptures compiled from reports supplied by museums, historical societies, special survey projects, public art programs, published catalogs, and private collectors.

Beinecke Digital Images Database; Yale

Approximately 19,000 images of photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, objects, and illustrations and selected pages from printed works in the Yale University Beinecke's collections.

The Getty Provenance Index; Getty

A compilation of Sale Catalogues and Sale Contents databases is available which consists of information about British sale catalogues from 1801 to 1825 that can be searched by artist's name, title, seller, price, buyer, etc.; It contains 173,637 records.

The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names; Getty

More than 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

Grove Art Online

Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) Includes extensive image links and sophisticated search and navigation tools.

Harvard University Art Museums; Harvard

A large image database containing over 70,000 searchable images.

Imagebase; San Francisco Museum of Art

Database contains over 60,000 digitized images from the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum collection.

NUCMC, National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections; LOC/RLG

Creates online records in the RLG Union Catalog on behalf of eligible archival repositories throughout the United States.

Union List of Artist Names (ULAN); Getty

Database of artists' and architects' names (including a large number of variant name forms), along with biographical and bibliographic data.