Art and Art History Databases

Current periodicals and books covering visual and applied arts.

Full text coverage for periodicals and books in art and architecture. Specifically covers fine, decorative and commercial art, plus architecture and architectural design.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

A collection of images from major museums. ARTSTOR images cover art, architecture and archeology. Useful for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations. ARTSTOR is available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature. Images may NOT be placed on publicly accessible websites. UNC Charlotte students, faculty and staff can register for an account which allows off-campus access; this registration must happen while on campus.

Provides access to academic journals and books covering a wide range of disciplines; it also includes some limited primary source collections.

Provides access to multiple collections with thousands of journals covering the arts, humanities, performing arts, and more.

A great database to get started with for your research on any topic. Use it to search for articles from scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, newspapers, and magazines.

An index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, part of the Web of Science Core Collection. (Indexing: 1975+)

Index to journals for architecture and related topics.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

References to journal articles and other sources on the history of the world (excluding U.S and Canada).

Full-text newspaper articles covering international, national, and local news. Includes the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Charlotte Observer, and many others.

Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

Brings together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

Benezit Dictionary of Artists is a comprehensive and definitive resource for artists’ biographies, published since 1911. This resource includes 149,000 biographies as well as auction records, exhibition histories, and over 11,000 images of artists’ signatures and stamps of sale.

This encyclopedia spans every art form, medium, and civilization of the era, tracing the development of the art forms in Classical civilizations.

Over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts throughout western and non-western cultures.

Offers over 1,600 up-to-date in-depth entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history.

Offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this fundamental area of the visual art, featuring fascinating historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.

Northern Renaissance art ranging from artists, architecture, and patrons.