This guide will lead you to the best information resources in Art and Art History.
Image: Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 . Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
Begin your search in reference sources.
Good background information may be found in reference sources. Start your search for information in Oxford Art Online, a collection of full-text art reference sources.
Articles
Books and eBooks help put your topic in context with other important issues, summarize research, and often provide a bibliography.
The Catalogs tab provides sources for Auction Catalogs, Auction Records, Catalogues Raisonnés, Corpora, and Museum Catalogs.
Dissertations provide in-depth lengthy scholarly research on narrow topics.
The Images tab provides links to image databases, information on how to search for embedded images, and websites that contain image collections.