LibGuides: Databases by Subject: Art

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Free Resources

Bancroft Berkeley Digital Scriptorium
This resource is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

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Leo Baeck Institute
Among the thousands of paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings, and prints are many fine works of great artistic and historical significance.

Databases

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Academic Search Premier is an interdisciplinary database, covering a broad range of subjects. It contains indexing for 8,172 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles.
Art Full Text (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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Art Full is for those studying fields such as women's, media or cultural studies; history; anthropology; industrial design; and other related areas of study.
Humanities Full Text (HW Wilson) This link opens in a new window
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Covers nearly 400 English language periodicals in the diverse subject areas of the humanities. Among the disciplines included are literature and language, history, philosophy, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, gender studies, performing arts, history, religion and theology.
Indexing: 1984 - present, Abstracts: March 1994 - present. Fulltext: January 1995 - present (96 titles).
MAS Ultra - School Edition This link opens in a new window
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This database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. It also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 82,968 biographies, 90,915 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

The Artist

The Artist
Britannica Online video.

Britannica Online: "Through the trials and triumphs of Brunelleschi, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, and others, this program reviews the great cultural change from craftsman to rebellious artist in Renaissance Europe." (video format)

Databases by Subject: Art

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The Artist

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