Art &Architecture Collections & Resources

General Information

Collections

Research needs and course reserve requirements in the fields of art history and architectural history are supported by the Art Library's 150,000 volumes, including over 500 active journal titles. This includes materials on the history of painting, sculpture, drawing, the graphic arts and the decorative arts. (Materials on classical archaeology, aesthetics, and urban design are shelved in the Green Library stacks, as are most materials of a cross-disciplinary nature that examine the relationship of the visual arts to other art forms -- literature, music, dance, etc.) Books and microforms in the Art Library collection include monographs on the work of specific artists and architects, exhibition catalogs from museums and galleries in the U.S. and abroad, catalogs of works of art held in public and private collections, and surveys of the art and architectural history of geographical areas and chronological periods.

Finding Library Materials

SOCRATES, the online library catalog of Stanford, contains bibliographic records for nearly all items acquired by the Art Library. To find journal articles, consult periodical indexes such as Art Abstracts, Art Index Retrospective, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, ARTbibliographies Modern, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Bibliography of the History of Art, Index of Christian Art, Index to 19th-Century American Art Periodicals, Grove Dictionary of Art, and SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs.

Art & Architecture Library Home Page
Information on hours, location, holdings, etc.

Historical Notes about the Collections

Special Collections and Collecting Projects

Categories of Rare Art & Architecture Materials Collected Regularly by Stanford University Libraries

A brief listing by subject area of some of the unique materials collected by Stanford. Examples of holdings are drawn from Special Collections, Green Library and the Art & Architecture Library.

          Cicognara Library

Complete full text (microform) versions of the several thousand rare published works primarily on Western art and architecture, from the 16th through 19th centuries, found in the library of one of Europe's most prominent early art historians.  

Illuminated Manuscripts and other Facsimiles

The Art & Architecture Library regularly collects manuscript facsimiles, especially facsimiles of Medieval manuscripts. Other subject areas are discussed, with examples from Special Collections, Green Library and the Art & Architecture Library.

        Image Collection from the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

An image collection of 1.6 million photographs, reproductions, and cuttings of paintings, drawings, and engravings acquired by a major center for the study of the history of art.  Available on microform.

Slavic Art Page
Link to the Russian fine art book collections at Stanford University Libraries.

Timely Features and Special Items

Notable Acquisitions:

1993-1994

1994-1995

1995-1998
1998-2000
2001-2002

 

Art & Architecture Online Resources

This listing of selected sites is designed to serve as an aid for your net surfing. For specific sites not listed, use the Internet search capability of your Web browser.

 

          Databases

General Sites

Job Sites

Image Resources

Architecture

Museum and Gallery Internet Listings

Museum and Gallery Links

Organizations

Newspapers/Publications

Studying Art & Architecture at Stanford

Art Department

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