Resource Guide:
Art History

• Art History
• Boundless Art History (LumenLearning Course)
• Art UK
• Introduction to Ancient Greek Art
• Architecture and Modern Literature

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Smithsonian Digital Library Art and Design
• Digital Collections The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Library of Congress Digital Collections
• The Bradshaw Foundation
• Chartres Cathedral
• Uffizi Galleries
• The British Museum Online Collection

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Art--History.
• Art, Prehistoric.
• Rock paintings.
• Art--Italy.
• Art, Ancient.
• Classical antiquities.
• Art--Egypt--History.
• Art, Renaissance.
• Marble sculpture
• Art Byzantine.
• Art Romanesque.
• Architecture, Gothic.

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Bridgeman Art Library
• Humanities International Complete
• National Gallery Collection

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Art History
• Art Bulletin
• Oxford Art Journal
• Journal of Art Historiography

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.