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This online edition of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon International Artists Database is the most extensive, up-to-date and authoritative art-history reference database. It contains information on visual artists from all over the world and throughout the ages, from antiquity to the present. The database makes the complete articles from all published volumes of the Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL) searchable, plus gives access to short biographical information (index data) extracted from articles in the AKL and the well-known reference works Thieme-Becker (A to Z) and Vollmer (A to Z). For the part of the alphabet not yet covered by the AKL, it contains short biographical information from the AKL’s Bio-Bibliographical Index A-Z (AKL Index). For the letters of the alphabet of the included AKL volumes, the database also includes artist entries from the AKL editorial archive relating to artists who did not meet the dictionary’s inclusion criteria (AKLArchiv).
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This resource features nearly 18,000 biographies, thousands of illustrations, and the ability to search by name, occupation, birthplace, life dates, and contributor. Occasionally, recently deceased individuals who are considered noteworthy will be added in quarterly updates, though most individuals are included within two to four years of their death.
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American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century.
Titles include Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine and America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar and Ladies’ Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure’s.
APS online can be searched alone or in conjunction with the New York Times Historical Newspapers.
This CD-ROM is a collection of treatises on art and architecture from the period 1470 to 1775. It is structured around the two Italian editions of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists.
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AskART is an online database containing more than 34,000 American artists whose lives and work span the time from pre-Columbus settlers through modern art expressionists. Includes biographic, bibliographic, and auction information for these artists.
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Britannica Online includes the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica, as well as Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year.
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China Academic Journals (CAJ) provides full-text electronic versions of selected articles from over 600 Chinese academic periodicals from 1915 to the current issue.
Recently added to our CAJ subscription (covering journals published from 1994-current) is the Century Journals Project (CJP), representing the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th century Chinese journals. The CJP journals have content from 1915 through 1993.
Our subscription to CAJ/CJP is for Series F which includes literature, history and philosophy. All journals are fully searchable.
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A biographical dictionary of historians, museum directors and scholars of art.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography contains 50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001.
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Provides biographical and historical information on Church prelates; medieval bishoprics, archdioceses and patriarchates, etc.
Please note that this resource can only be accessed by one user at a time. If you cannot gain access, try again later.
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This database contains the complete set of U.S. Federal Census Records from 1790-1930 and the searchable full-text of over 25,000 family and local histories. This collection also assembles banking and military records, genealogies, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials. An ongoing project (new content is added regularly), HeritageQuest Online now also encompasses the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) and the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Index. Newspaper obituaries and additional materials will soon be added to the database.
This is an Access database, created by Hazen Center staff, that allows you to search the text of the finding aid, The Metropolitan Museum of Art historical clippings and ephemeral files, 1880-1980. The finding aid describes a collection of news clippings, press releases, brochures, pamphlets, photographs and correspondence relating to events, exhibits, programs and staff of the Museum. The clippings are from national and international publications.
The finding aid is also available as a Word document which can be browsed by clicking this link: MMA Historical Clippings and Ephemeral Files, 1880-1980. The clippings themselves are on microfilm in the Watson Library. In order to know which microfilm reel to request, search the finding aid to get a box and folder number. Then view the WATSONLINE record for the microfilm to match your box and folder number to a reel number.
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The online version of the print Lexikon des Mittelalters, the standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies, published between 1977-1999. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. This database also includes the International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages-Online (IEMA), a supplement to the Lexikon.
Please note that this resource can only be accessed by one user at a time. If you cannot gain access, try again later.
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Who’s Who on the Web provides access to over 1.3 million biographies. This online resource also gives us access to Who’s Who in American Art, and Who’s Who in American History.
Please Note: You must select which of the three databases you are searching; they cannot be searched simultaneously. This resource can only be accessed by one user at a time. If you cannot gain access, try again later.
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This database provides access to a fully searchable digitized image of every page of The New York Times from its first issue on Sept 18, 1851 through Dec 31, 2004. It provides digitized historical New York Times articles in downloadable PDF files.
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This resource includes the complete and searchable Grove Dictionary of Art on a new platform (May 2008) with new content, functionality and partnership links.
Oxford Art Online replaces Grove Art Online which included the Grove Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art - and adds The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art.
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Oxford Music Online is a gateway into music research. It includes Grove Music Online as well as The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. It is fully searchable.
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The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. First launched in 2000, the Timeline now extends from prehistory to the present day. The Timeline will continue to expand in scope and depth, and also reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.
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Researchers can search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, including all articles, advertisements, illustrations and photos.
Please note that this resource can only be accessed by one user at a time. If you cannot gain access, try again later.
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The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 259,000 names and other information about artists. Names in ULAN may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time. The temporal coverage of the ULAN ranges from Antiquity to the present and the scope is global.
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Who’s Who in American Art has over 14,000 biographies of the most noteworthy men and women in today’s art world - including notable artists from the past. Use this unique database to quickly locate artists, critics, curators, administrators, librarians, historians, collectors, conservators, educators, and dealers.
Please note that this resource can only be accessed by one user at a time. If you cannot gain access, try again later.
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Who’s Who in American History has over 110,000 historical biographies and represents 400 years of biographical history.
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The WBIS Index provides brief biographical index entries for thousands of notables from all centuries and most countries. The biographical articles referenced are from the 16th to the 20th centuries. We also have access to the WBIS French Biographical Archive I, which provides access to the digitized full-text of articles that are indexed from that archive. As a result, you will find lots of citations with brief biographical information from all of WBIS, and a few with fully digitized articles from the French archive.
