3. Bibliographies, Primary Sources, and Library Catalogs
African-American Artists on Disc
Annotated bibliography of over 8,000 African American artists active in the United States and spanning nearly three centuries. This is a completely updated version of the printed volume 250 years of Afro-American Art, by James and Lynn Moody Igoe (RFA281.2.1.40).
This CDROM database is available in the Visual Resources Department, located on the mezzanine level of the Fine Arts Library.
ArchiveGrid
Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives in the U.S. and worldwide have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can see detailed records and digital images for many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, or order copies. Records for many Harvard archives and manuscripts plus over 2100 Harvard collection guides are included.
Archive Finder
Archive Finder is a database which describes over 206,200 collections of primary source material housed in thousands of repositories across the United States, the United Kingdom and Ireland. It provides powerful searching integrated with detailed subject indexing to assist researchers in uncovering historical collections.
Archives of American Art
The Archives of American Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution, has collected 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. Collections may searched by keyword or browsed by artist. Many finding aids include digital images.
Art Theorists of the Italian Renaissance
Searchable full-text database containing a collection of treatises on art and architecture from the period 1470-1775. The first and second editions of Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1550 and 1568) are included in full, with full English parallel translation. Additional texts range from Alberti's De Pictura to lesser-known works such as Vespasiano's Le Vite. Where possible these texts are provided in Latin, Italian and English. Architectural treatises such as Palladio's I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura are reproduced complete with original diagrams and illustrations. The "table of contents" toolbar option gives full details of all the works included in the database.
This database is available at Research Workstations 1 & 2 in the Reading Room Consultation Area located on the main level of the Fine Arts Library.
Census of Antique Works of Art Known in the Renaissance
The Census was established in 1946 at the Warburg Institute in London. It began as an index system, with antique monuments and their Renaissance documentation noted on index cards. An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity, a focus of Renaissance studies, began development in the 1990s. The database contains antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data. The Census is a useful research tool not only in the field of art history and archaeology, but also for any discipline focussing on the afterlife of the antiquity. The Census contains the following visual and textual sources: drawings, sketchbooks, paintings, engravings, sculpture, medals, applied arts, inventories, guide-books, artist biographies, archival documents, etc. In addition, personal name, place name and dates are searchable. Bibliographical references are included.
Index Islamicus
Online database version of the printed bibliography, Index Islamicus (RFA 31.60.7), and covers worldwide literature in English and European languages on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world from 1906–present. The Index Islamicus, produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library, is a bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world and provides access to over 2,000 journals and series. The Index also covers conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works, and book reviews.
Index of Christian Art
The Index of Christian Art began the electronic conversion and indexing of its archive in 1991. The conversion process is not yet complete and to date there are just a few thousand images available in the database. However, there are more than 150 searchable categories of information to locate individual works of art and most records contain a bibliographic reference that cites an image of the work. The database contains works dating to 1400. The database presently contains only a portion of the holdings in the Index and is updated with converted records from the backfile regularly. The complete card and photograph files are available for consultation in Princeton and at the following locations: Rome, Utrecht, Washington, DC., Los Angeles. This resource is currently available from campus workstations only.
OASIS
OASIS (Online Archival Search Information System) provides centralized access to a growing percentage of finding aids for archival and manuscript collections across Harvard University. These finding aids are detailed descriptions of collections that contain a wide variety of materials, including letters, diaries, photographs, drawings, printed material, and objects. For each collection described in OASIS there is a summary description in HOLLIS.
Virtueller Katalog Kunstgeschichte (VKK)
Provides the ability to search simultaneously across 22 international art library catalogs using an English language interface. Participants include the Getty Research Library and the National Art Library of the Victoria & Albert Museum among other institutions.
WorldCat
WorldCat is also a union (i.e. collective) catalog of records of different types of material (books, exhibition catalogs, periodicals, scores, films, recordings, etc.) cataloged by over 8,000 OCLC member libraries, primarily but not exclusively, from libraries in the United States. There are more than 40 million records in the WorldCat database, whose scope includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century. It is updated daily. This database may be used to verify citations of items not found in HOLLIS, to find a needed item in another local library, or to provide accurate citations for interlibrary loan requests. Searches for archival and manuscript material should also include Archival Resources and ArchivesUSA.
Worldcat may be used to search for more publications on your topic, to verify citations of items not found in HOLLIS, to find a needed item in another local library, or to provide accurate citations for interlibrary loan requests.
