Tagged: Architecture

Oxford Art Online [via Oxford University Press]

Oxford Art Online contains four major reference works for the fine arts: The Grove Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. These may be searched individually or in combination.

Machiel Kiel Photographic Archive (of Ottoman architectural monuments) [via NIT]

This growing collection consists of images of Ottoman architectural monuments in the Balkan countries taken by Dutch scholar Machiel Kiel mostly from the 1960s through the 1990s. It is a project of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT). Currently it contains images from Southeastern Europe.

Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied Arts [via ARTstor]

This collection contains over 15,000 images of architecture and architectural decoration from the Ancient to the Modern Western World. Included in the ARTstor library, it can be searched separately by selecting it from the Browse Collections link on ARTstor’s home page.

Hartill Collection [Architecture Images]

This collection of images covers the architectural history of the Western world from earliest antiquity through the present,and from the Middle East to the Americas. It includes thousands of details of architectural decoration, mosaics, sculpture and stained glass, as well as related decorative arts and public sculpture. It is exceptionally

The Grove® Dictionary of Art

The Grove Dictionary of Art is the standard multi-volume reference work on all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present. It also incorporates a related collection of more than 5,000 digital images. Click this link if you wish to search The Oxford Companion to Western Art, The

Digitized art, architecture, design and craft journals on the Internet

“Designinform Research Guides No.2: Free-access, digitized art, architecture, design and craft journals on the Internet.” The site includes descriptions of and links to more than 50 digitized journals from the U.S. and Europe. Coverage is mostly late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but some journals are from the mid nineteenth