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Wellesley College Library catalog - The catalog lists books, journal titles, videos, and other items in the Wellesley College Libraries. Note that individual journal articles are not listed in the catalog. To find articles about your topic, use the resources below.

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(This is just a small sample of the Art Library's print reference materials related to architecture)

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

The Dictionary of Art (Grove) (Art Ref - N31 .D5 1996)
Encyclopedia of World Art (Art Ref - N31 .E533)
A Dictionary of Architecture (Art Ref - NA31 .C86 1999)
Dictionary of Architecture & Construction (Art Ref - NA31 .H32 1993)
Encyclopedia of Architecture (Art Ref - NA31 .Y37 1986)
International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (Art Ref - NA40 .I48 1993)
Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (Art Ref - NA208 .E53 1997)
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture (Art Ref - NA680 .E495 2004)
Encyclopedia of American Architecture (Art Ref - NA705 .P3 1995)
Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design Since 1945(Art Ref - N34 .W34 1992)

Biographical Dictionaries and Indexes

A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Art Ref - NA31 .C44 1995)
International Dictionary of Architects and Architecture (Art Ref - NA40 .I48 1993)
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (Art Ref - NA40 .M25)
Who's Who in Architecture : From 1400 to the Present (Art Ref - NA40 .W48)
Contemporary Architects (Art Ref - NA680 .C625 1994)
Biographical Dictionary of American Architects (Deceased) (Art Ref - NA701.W5)
Avery Obituary Index of Architects (Art Ref - Z5943.A69 A93 1980)
Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 - Society of Architectural Historians

Transcribed from the American Art Annual by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Director, Maine Historic Preservation Commission

Bibliographies

America Preserved : A Checklist of Historic Buildings, Structures, and Sites (Clapp Ref - E159 .A37 1995)
Art and Architecture in Central Europe, 1550-1620 : An Annotated Bibliography (Art Ref - Z5936.M34 K38 1988)
Romanesque Architecture : a Bibliography (Art Ref - Z5941.34 .D38 1993)
Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture : An Annotated Bibliography and Historiography (Art Ref - Z5943.C56 K55 1992)
Muslim Architecture of the Iberian Peninsula : Eastern and Western Sources for Hispano-Islamic Building Arts (Art Ref - Z5944.S8 M66 1987)
Vernacular architecture in America : a selective bibliography (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 C87 1985)
Architecture and Women : a Bibliography Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers, and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 D6886 1988)
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record : an Annotated Bibliography (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 M39 1992)
American Architects From the Civil War to the First World War : a Guide to Information Sources (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 W63)
American Architects From the First World War to the Present : a Guide to Information Sources (Art Ref - Z5944.U5 W635)
A Bibliography of the Architecture, Arts, and Crafts of Islam by Sir K.A.C. Creswell, C.B.E. (Art Ref - Z5956.I8 C74)
Arts in America : a Bibliography (Art Ref - Z5961.U5 A77)

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals 1934 - current, with selective coverage back to 1741.

Offers a comprehensive listing of journal articles published worldwide (from 700+ journals) on architecture and design, archaeology, city planning, interior design, garden history, and historic preservation. Avery indexes not only the international scholarly and popular periodical literature, but also the publications of professional associations, US state and regional periodicals, and the major serial publications on architecture and design of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Expanded coverage includes obituary citations.

Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984

Bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art Index volumes 1-32 of the printed index published between 1929-1984. The database cites articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Dutch. In addition to articles, Art Index Retrospective indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Database continues as Art Full Text, below.

Art Full Text Indexing: 1984+; abstracting: 1994+; full-text of selected articles: 1997+

Continued database from Art Index Retrospective, above. To search both the indexing/abstracts and the full text in this database, check both the OmniFile and Art Abstracts boxes. Indexes and abstracts major English-language art periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. Provides access to a wide range of bibliographies, notices of competitions and awards, reports of conferences, exhibition listings, review articles, interviews, and film reviews. Abstracts since 1994. Some full-text articles since 1997. Reproductions indexed. Shows Wellesley holdings.

ARTbibliographies Modern 1974+

Modern & contemporary architecture, artists, art movements, art history and theory, design, photography, new media and crafts dating from the late 19th century onwards.

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) 1973+

Covers the art and architecture of Europe and the Americas (4th century to modern) cited from art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibitions and dealers' catalogs, and journal articles.

Academic Search Complete - dates vary

The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title.

Periodicals Index Online (formerly Periodicals Contents Index) - 1665-1995, coverage varies.

Index to articles published in 4,698 periodicals in the humanities & social sciences in 40 languages. Indexing goes back to the first issue of the journal, some titles go back over 200 years. A number of the major art and architecture journals (i.e. Architectural Forum, Architectural Record, The Journal of the American Society of Architectural Historians, Journal of Urban History) are included in this database. Includes the complete table of contents for each issue of each journal.

AH Search: Arts & Humanities 1980+

Online equivalent of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Contains bibliographic citations of articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, and reviews from arts and humanities journals. Also provides the ability to search by cited author

JSTOR. - coverage varies

Use this to find articles in selected scholarly literature journals (i.e. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Assemblage, American Art) written prior to about the last five years. JSTOR is an archive of back issues of selected journals containing full-text humanities, social sciences, and natural science journals. The years will vary from the first issues of the listed journal titles but will most likely NOT have any from the latest 5 years.

Oxford Art Online

Through Oxford Art Online, you are now able to cross search and browse a suite of valuable art reference publications simultaneously with Grove Art Online: The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics,and Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Oxford Art Online also enhances your capacity to search through a behind-the-scenes thesaurus, a sophisticated fielded bibliography search, as well as an improved advanced search function.

Grove Art Online

Articles on fine, decorative & ethnic arts, architecture, and more, with searchable text

ARTstor

A digital web resource that contains more than 300,000 images of world art, architecture, design, photographs, and other forms of visual culture. Images are drawn from sources such as museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.

Digital Images Collections Wiki - created by Wellesley College's Visual Resources Dept.

Iter : Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance 1859+

Contains citations to articles on architecture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700 A.D.) from hundreds of scholarly journals.

Other databases may be useful for you, depending on your specific topic and approach. Please visit the Databases A-Z list of databases or visit AskUs and get some customized suggestions

Key scholarly websites

Architecture and Building (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Topics covered include architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, green design and energy efficiency, and landscape architecture

The Art Source (University of Kentucky)

A gathering point for networked resources in Art and Architecture. Quite well selected and organized.

Society of Architectural Historians Net Resources

This page organized by the Society of Architectural Historians links architecture resources focused on reference information, collections, image compendia, specific architects, and texts.

Artcyclopedia

Text about and images by over 7500 artists and architects

ArchNet

ArchNet is a web project produced by MIT and Harvard and is "the world's largest online repository of information on Islamic architecture, city planning and landscape." Sponsored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.

Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser (Getty Research Institute)

The AAT is a structured vocabulary containing around 125,000 terms and other information about concepts. Terms in AAT may be used to describe art, architecture, decorative arts, material culture, and archival materials. The coverage of the AAT ranges from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global.

ArtLex Art Dictionary

Definitions for over 3100 terms used in visual art, along with images and pronunciation notes.

The Great Buildings Collection

This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.

Union List of Artists' Names (Getty Research Institute)

Authority file of over 200,000 artists' names developed by a variety of bibliographic authorities.

Wellesley College Library • WCIS • Brooke Henderson • last modified: February 5, 2009