Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la Litterature de l'Art (RILA)
The Getty Institute provides free access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and Répertoire de la Litterature de l'Art (RILA) providing a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of Western art from late antiquity to the present. Broad in scope, BHA and RILA encompasses fine arts-painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, and architecture-as well as decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, folk, and popular art.
A Specialist digital fine art collection with the work 30,000 artists from 1,600 museums, galleries, institutions and private collections across 8,000 locations. Includes architecture, photography, sculpture, digital art, painting, drawing
The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance is a project begun in 1946 devoted to the documentation of and research on antiquities known in the Renaissance era (1400–1600).
The Census began in 1946 as a collaboration between the art historian Richard Krautheimer (1897–1994) at Vassar College, Fritz Saxl (1890–1948) Director of the Warburg Institute in London, and the archaeologist Karl Lehmann (1894–1960) at New York University with the idea of creating an instrument that would systematically record ancient works that were, or could have been, known to Renaissance artists.
The Index of Medieval Art is the largest archive of materials on Early Christian and Medieval Iconography. The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Muslim cultures.
JSTOR Images (previously ArtStor)
Over 1 million digital images of visual material encompassing artistic and historical traditions across many time periods and cultures. Focuses on, but is not limited to, the arts. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture. Now included in JSTOR.
Royal Geographical Society with IBG Archive
The Royal Geographical Society's archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, spanning 500 years of geography, travel and exploration. It holds one of the largest private map collections in the world which includes one million sheets of maps and charts, 3000 atlases, 40 globes and 1000 gazetteers. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485.
The Index of Medieval Art