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Quick Reference
Art
ArtLex: Visual Art Dictionary
Contains “definitions for more than 3,300 terms used in discussing visual
culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes,
great quotations and cross-references.”
Artnet.com
An Online Gallery Network which serves dealers and art buyers. Browse articles
in Artnet magazine or subscribe to the Fine Art Auctions Database or the
African Art Auctions Database (both fee-based).
Artcyclopedia
“We have now indexed 1200 arts sites, and offer more than 32,000 links to
an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.”
Ceramicsweb Includes databases of glaze recipes and material analyses, links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and educational materials related to ceramics. The Ceramics Web started life as the Ceramics Gopher - the first resource on the Internet for ceramic artists.
Communication Arts
Home of Communication Arts magazine, commarts.com provides indexing to its
publication as well as news, features, and columns.
Getty Research Library
Important electronic research tools produced wholly or in part by the Getty Research Institute are The Bibliography of the History of Art, The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (both fee-based); free databases like The Provenance Index,
and three vocabulary databases, The Art & Architecture Thesaurus, The Thesaurus of Geographic Names,
and The Union List of Artists' Names.
Smithsonian American
Art Museum
Maintains several specialized art
databases and photographic archive collections.