Internet links
Please note: it is important that you are critical in judging the quality of the information that you find! The following resource will help you to use the Internet more effectively:
MetaLib
MetaLib: your resource gateway provides access to a vast range of online resources
When you use MetaLib log in with your University of Bristol username and password, this means that you gain direct access to most of the resources it contains without any further restrictions.
Additionally the following can act as a good starting point for discovering subject resources on the Internet (many of these are also found in MetaLib).
Gateways, portals and guides to art history resources
- Intute: arts and humanities - provides access to the best arts and humanities web resources for education and research, selected and evaluated by a network of subject specialists.
- Intute (artists index) - a searchable index of resources dedicated to 'artists' in many fields, including scholars (such as historians, philosophers, theologians and others).
- Arlis net - a service designed to help users to locate art, architecture and design publications, plus related materials. The service currently consists of a database of periodical titles (or magazines/journals/serials), and a related directory of art library resources in general. Maintained by the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, for the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS/UK and Ireland).
- 24 hour museum: The national virtual museum - provides searchable access to information about more than 3,800 UK museums, galleries and other heritage attractions. Funded by the Department of Culture Media and Sport through MLA, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.
- Artchive - a comprehensive list of links to art images, text and articles, art reviews, online exhibitions, art theory and criticism.
- Art guide UK - a comprehensive guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland. Resources are organised by artist, by museum and geographically.
- Art history resources on the web - a chronologically arranged directory of online resources relating to art history.
- Art museum network - provides access to information about the collections, exhibitions, and services of the world's leading art museums and galleries.
- Mother of all art history links - an annotated index of online art history resources.
- National Register of Archives (NRA) research guide - sources for the history of fine art and artists - describes briefly the unpublished sources noted in the National Register of Archives (NRA), the principal relevant repositories and the most useful general works of reference.
- National Register of Archives (NRA) research guide - sources for the architectural history.
- WWW virtual library: history of art - a collection of links relating to art history and computer applications in art history.
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Teaching, learning and research resources
- Art Design Media - the Subject Centre for Art, Design, Media (ADM) is part of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) established by the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales to promote high quality learning and teaching in subject communities.
- Courtauld Colour Slide Scheme - a service of the Courtauld Institute of Art that aims to provide a slide and digital image supply service, on a not-for-profit basis, for the Institute’s own slide library and other institutions wishing to build up their visual resource collections.
- National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum - web site of the major reference library (with link to online catalogue) and the Victoria and Albert Museum's curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book.
- Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI) - advice and support for the academic community on the digital creation, storage and delivery of image-related information
- AHDS Visual Arts - one of five Centres that make up the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). AHDS Visual Arts aims to support research, learning and teaching, by providing online access to visual arts digital resources and advice for their creation and use. Includes a wealth of visual arts digital collections within the areas of applied arts, architecture, design, fine art and media.
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Learned societies and professional organisations
- Arts and Humanities Research Council - the AHRC funds research and postgraduate study within the UK's higher education institutions. In addition, on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, it provides funding for museums, galleries and collections that are based in, or attached to, higher education institutions in England.
- Association of Art Historians (AAH) - a UK organisation that aims to promote the study of art history and represent the interests of art and design historians in all aspects of the discipline.
- CHART - Computers and the History of Art Group - a society open to all who have an interest in the application of computers to the study of art and design.
- Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA)
- Getty Research Institute - an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the Research Institute is dedicated to advancing scholarship in the arts and humanities. The site provides access to a a growing research library and extensive archival collections; and produces a range of online research tools.
- International Center of Medieval Art - founded in 1956 in Paris and housed since 1964 in New York, the ICMA aims to promote and encourage the study, understanding, and appreciation of the visual arts of the Middle Ages produced in Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the Slavic world, during the period between ca. 300 and ca. 1500 C.E.
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