Skip to Main Content

A - Z Electronic Resources

Find the best subscription databases and internet resources for your research.

Loading...

New / Trial Databases

Loading...
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Emblematica Online This link opens in a new window
  • Freely available internet resource
New
Emblems are potent combinations of texts and images that invite, and require, decoding. In a concise format, they reveal the mentalities and attitudes of the period from c. 1500-1800 in an assemblage of texts and images.
Emblematica Online draws from the most important collections of emblematica worldwide. It is hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its founding partner is the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. Contributing libraries include Glasgow University Library, Utrecht University, the Getty Research Institute Library, and Duke University Library.
Fondation Custodia - Collection Frits Lugt This link opens in a new window
  • Freely available internet resource
New
The Collection Online, launched in February 2020, is still in its early stages and consists of object records for a part of the collection. Currently (in 2023), all the Italian drawings, as well as those by Rembrandt and his circle held by the Fondation Custodia are available to search in the online collection database. This concerns over 700 objects. In the upcoming years, the database will be updated with other works of art on an ongoing basis. At the moment publication is being prepared of the Rembrandt etchings, Flemish and Dutch Old Master paintings, French 19th century drawings, and part of the collection of artists’ letters and manuscripts (French autographs 14th-17th century).
Iconclass Illustrated Edition This link opens in a new window
  • Freely available internet resource
New
Iconclass, a hierarchical classification system designed for art and iconography, is used by museums and art institutions around the world to describe and retrieve subjects represented in images (works of art, book illustrations, reproductions, photographs, etc.) For access to images, create a free account.
The Iconclass system has a history reaching back into the 1940’s when Henri van de Waal began to develop ideas for a universal classification for the subject matter of works of art. The classification itself went through several phases, after its first edition as part of the Decimal Index of Art of the Low Countries or D.I.A.L., in 1968.
In its completed form it was published as a printed publication in 17 volumes between 1973 and 1985 (in the library, see call number NE90 B3).
In its digital format it was included in the HIDA-MIDAS database management system of the Marburger Index in the 1980's.
This third version of the Iconclass browser is different from its predecessors in that it offers a large corpus of classified images to be used for comparison and inspiration.
Loading...
Loading...
title
Loading...