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AATA Online (Conservation at the Getty)
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
America's Distinguished Artists
National registry of American artists.
Artists Rights Society (ARS) is the preeminent copyright, licensing, and monitoring organization for visual artists in the United States. Founded in 1987, ARS represents the intellectual property rights interests of over 50,000 visual artists and estates of visual artists from around the world (painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others).
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (The Getty)
The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 34,000 concepts, including 131,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
Art History Resources on the Web
Web resource created and maintained by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor, Dept of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
Find definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
AskART is an online database containing over 185,000 artists. From its inception the focus was on American artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. However, in January of 2007 the database has expanded to include international artists' auction records.
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing around 895,000 records, including around 1,115,000 names, place types, coordinates, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.
Getty Union List of Artist Names (Research at the Getty)
The Union List of Artist Names ® (ULAN) contains structured vocabularies that can be used to improve access to information about art, architecture, and material culture. See also Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names & the Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
GradShare: Graduate Student Community
Supported by ProQuest.
ICC performance code for buildings and facilities
See MADCAD (Indexes & Databases)
National Fire Protection Association
National Fire Protection Association
Formerly Grove Dictionary of Art (also available in PRINT). The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. The Grove Dictionary of Art contains 45,000 articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study.
Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
SEE: Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Databases / Archives, Manuscripts & Photographic Collection
VAGA.ORG: Visual Artists and Galleries Association, Inc.
VAGA is an artists rights organization and copyright collective representing reproduction rights (copyright) for approximately 500 American artists and, through agreements with affiliated organizations in other countries, thousands of foreign artists worldwide.
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