Visual Arts

Resources by Topic

Art and Architecture Dictionaries (Oxford Online Reference) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Dictionaries on art and architecture topics such as modern design, 20th century art and western art. Also includes several general art and architecture dictionaries.
Art Dictionaries (Credo) (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Online dictionaries and reference sources on topics such as British art, fashion design, graphic design, and impressionism. Also includes several general art dictionaries.
Dictionary of Art Terms (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Over 3,100 online images from the collections of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.
Getty Research Tools (http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/): Access to Getty collections, thesauri and other online research tools.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Unrivalled one-volume guide to the art of the Western world. It provides a careful balance of fact and critical appraisal, ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present.

Art, Architecture, and Applied Arts Journals: CU's Collection (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet.): CU's journals covering art, architecture, and the applied arts.

Books on Architecture in the CU Collections (): Books on architecture listed by category in the CU collections.
Dictionary of Architecture (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Includes thousands of entries on architects, terms, periods, and styles of Western Architecture.

Books on Teaching Art in the CU Collections (): A list of books on the subject of art teaching in the CU collections.
A Lifetime of Color (http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/): Lesson plans and many ideas for art projects for kids. Sponsored by Sanford, so many plans recommend using their products, but most supplies needed are generic.

Books on Art History in the CU Collections (): A list of books on the subject of art history in the CU collections.
Timeline of Art History (http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm): Timelines and topical articles for many regions, periods and styles in art history. Maintained by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Biographical Dictionary of Artists (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Dictionary of 1,300 alphabetically arranged entries for painters, architects, and sculptors from pre-Christian times to the present.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Succinct and accessible explanations of over 1,800 terms used in the wide variety of visual media that makes up the art world.
Dictionary of Art and Artists (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Over 2,500 international artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements.

ARTStor (http://www.artstor.org): Digital collection of nearly one million images of art and architecture from major museums and collections around the world.
Archives of American Art (Smithsonian) (http://www.aaa.si.edu/home.cfm): Roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America
Bridgeman Art Library Archive (For CU faculty, staff, and students only. Must log in through CU Intranet. ): Over 17,000 individual works of art are featured, cross-referenced and linked using Bridgeman's own categories.
Getty: Explore Art (http://www.getty.edu/art/): Search and browse the many works of art displayed at the Getty.
Mother of All Art: Sampling of Exhibits Online (http://art-design.umich.edu/mother/exhibits.html): Links to online art exhibits from a vast array of media, styles and periods. Sponsored by University of Michigan School of Art and Design.
National Gallery of Art: Virtual Exhibitions (http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/webtours.shtm): Online tours of current museum exhibits using Quick Time.
Smart Museum of Art (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/smart/): Over 3,100 online images from the collections of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago.

FedFlix (through YouTube) (): Music, nature, health and safety, energy, American history,etc. from the public domain Archives project.
Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/index.php): A library of Internet sites, that contain video, audio, digital paper documents and other cultural artifacts collections.