Databases
The Art and Architecture web site by the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) features more than 40'000 images selected from the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery and Conway library collections.
AGORHA (Accès global et organisé aux ressources en histoire de l'art) is the managements and diffusion platform of INHA (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art - France) and Galerie Colbert. It also provides access to digital items in the Répertoire d’art et d’archéologie numérisé.
ARTstor is a digital library of images, information about the images, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. ARTstor contains over 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. The images in ARTstor come from a wide range of civilizations, with initial strengths in European, American, and Asian cultures. The collection has been derived from several source collections that are the product of collaborations with libraries, museums, photographic archives, publishers, slide libraries, and individual scholars.
ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM) is the premier source of information on modern and contemporary art dating from the late 19th century onwards, including photography since its invention. The database provides full abstracts of journal articles, including book and exhibition reviews, as well as art publications such as exhibition catalogs, monographs and artists’ books, including those drawn from the collections of the Tate Library and the Bibliothèque Dominique Bozo, Musée LAM. More than 15,000 new entries are added each year, with entries dating back as far as the late 1960s.
Over 1 million artists’ biographic profiles: next to the 37 Thieme-Becker and the 6 Vollmer volumes, it contains the complete database of the first 43 volumes of the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (165'000 full-text articles and 220'000 editing board documents). Each artist’s record is enriched with cultural background, work details, work locations, exhibitions, detailed biographic description, and a very large bibliography.
The ArTec (Archivio delle tecniche e dei materiali per l’architettura) database of Università IUAV di Venezia, is a web platform for searching and retrieving information about materials, products and systems in their physical archive. The database provides technical documentation of specimens and mock-ups stored in ArTec, but also guided access to web resources by linking to the product manufacturer's website in order to broaden the understanding of technical specifications.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft kunsthistorischer Bildarchive und Fototheken (AKBF) is an online platform of German iconographic archives of art history and image collections. More than six million images can be searched in the collection of: Deutsche Fotothek der SLUB (Dresden), Photothek des Kunstgeschichtlichen Instituts (Florence), Rheinische Bildarchiv der Stadt Köln, Bildarchiv Foto (Marburg), Photothek des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte (Munich), Fototeca della Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte (Rome).
This database indexes more than 8'800 buildings and both architectural and urban planning projects. It can be searched by name of designer, place and keyword. The main focus is on 20th and 21st century architecture.
In February 2019, after a three-year preparatory phase, Architekturbibliothek, the lexicon of Swiss architecture from 1920 to the present, saw the light. This consultation tool fills an important information gap, reaches a wide audience and involves students from the architecture and interior design thematic areas of the Hochschule Luzern. The Architekturbibliothek is also a lexicon for architects and a qualified and freely accessible archive of images for contemporary architectural photography.
Edited by Pavillon de l'Arsenal and Groupe Moniteur, this database collects architectural competions’ results, projects, and completed buildings published autonomously by the architects themselves. More than one thousand projects are currently available. The main focus is on contemporary French architecture.
