In one search access to the catalogues of a number of major art libraries in England, Germany, France, the United States The Netherlands and some other countries.
Formerly: Virtueller Kunst Katalog (VKK).

Bibliography of all areas of art history, covers the period 1929-1984.

International bibliography on all areas of Western art history. Contains also RILA (International Repertory of the Literature of Art, 1975-1989). The databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
For material published after 2007 please consult the International Bibliography of Art (IBA).

Bibliography of all areas of art history. Gives data on publications from 2008 onwards. Contains both English and French subject terms.
Successor of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA).

The Knowledge Base Patronage Studies contains published research by scientists and master's students from Dutch universities. Patronage studies investigates giving relationships between artists and benefactors.

Online version of the lexicon by Kirschbaum. With Iconclass classifications.

The RKD website offers databases on Western art from the Late Middle Ages to the present, with the focus on Netherlandish art.

OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database providing access to bibliographic records of magazines, books, exhibition and auction catalogs published between 1910 and 2007.

Bibliography in the field of conservation and restauration. Contains a.o. the 36 volumes of the printed bibliography Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts.

Archives Biographiques Françaises is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from more than 600 biographical sources, published between 1647 and 2013.

Database of images and texts (both printed and manuscripts), accessible with the help of Iconclass. Particularly useful for emblematic studies.
Arkyves provides single access to collections from places like Glasgow, Tours, Milan, Wolfenbüttel, Utrecht, and The Hague.

Large bibliographic database for literature in the field of conservation and restoration of cultural artefacts.

Research library for the modern visual arts.

Image database containing approximately two million pictures of works of art and architecture in Germany and other countries in Europe. Contains the Marburger Index with supplementary material. Images are provided with explanations and sometimes contain references. You can search by place, artist, person portrayed and theme (Iconclass classification).
N.B. Many twentieth century works of art lack photographs, but do contain explanations.

Biographical Archive of the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from almost 200 biographical sources, published between 1581 and 1998.

Database of information about and pictures of antique monuments and works of art that were (re)discovered in the 15th and 16th century. Contains descriptions, sources and pictures. For later periods please check: Corpus der antiken Denkmäler, die J. J. Winckelmann und seine Zeit kannten

Database of information about and pictures of antique monuments and works of art that were known to J.J. Winckelmann (1717-1768) and his contemporaries. Contains descriptions, sources, pictures and references to the works of Winckelmann. Successor to Census of Antique Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance.

The catalogue of the library and the archives of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Project produced at the University of Wisconsin Madison

EBR offers a comprehensive and in-depth rendering of the current state of knowledge on the origins and development of the Bible in its different canonic forms in Judaism and Christianity. EBR also documents the history of the Bible's reception, both in a religious and in a broader cultural context.

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections.

is a cloud-based digital research environment designed to support Digital Humanities research and easily create, manage, organize and share content sets. If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). It is also possible to add text-files (.txt) to the Lab yourself. You need an account with Google or Microsoft to make use it. Je

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and other reference sources for multidisciplinary research, such as Encyclopedia of Emerging Markets, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Child Development, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Learning and Memory.

Getty Research Institute Library catalogue, Los Angeles

Iconclass is a classicification system for iconographical themes in the visual arts.

An iconographic index of early Christian and medieval art objects. The database contains data added to the Index since 1991 and approximately thirty percent of the data developed before.
The complete files till 1991 are available for consultation in the paper copy of the Index in the University Library City Centre, in the basement. Eventually the complete Index will be available digitally.

Catalogue of the INHA, incorporating the catalogues of the INHA Library (collections Jacques Doucet), the Bibliothèque Centrale des Musées Nationaux, the Bibliothèque Patrimoniale de l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole Nationale des Chartes and the Bibliothèque du centre Gernet-Glotz.

The shared online catalogue of the six IRIS Consortium Libraries in Florence; among them the Library of the Dutch University Institute of Art History

Lexicon of the Middle Ages: covers Europe and the Byzantine, Arabian and Jewish world.
With supplement: International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages.

Directory of auction catalogues (1600-1900). This online edition of Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques intéressant l'art ou la curiosité by F. Lugt forms one part of the Art Sales Catalogue Online, the other being the auction catalogues made accessible by the directory. The catalogues themselves are not accessible online in Utrecht. They are available for the most part in microfiche though, in the University Library Uithof, audiovisual collection, room 1.23 on the first floor. In the RKD in The Hague a large part of the catalogues can be consulted online.

Medieval Memoria Online provides a database with inventories and descriptions of objects and texts that had a function in the medieval commemoration of the dead in the area that is currently the Netherlands, until 1580.

Special Photo Study Collections of the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI) in Florence. The collection's strength lies in the photographic reproduction of paintings and drawings from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

Collection of full text books. To select a topical area, look under Browse by Subject.

Encyclopedia covering the European middle ages in a broad sense: history, society, religion, and culture, as well as archeology, medicine and music. All entries are supported by up-to-date bibliographies.

Oxford Reference brings together language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, quotations and reference works across various subject areas into a single cross-searchable resource.

The catalogue of the Rijksmuseum gives access to all books, journals and exhibition and collection catalogues, excluding auction catalogues published before 1989 and a part of the old stock of journals. You can also search all volumes of the Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum. External visitors cannot borrow materials, but they can view them in the reading room.

The catalogue of the library of the Stedelijk Museum gives access to all books, catalogues, journals, documentary videos and dvds as well as over 20,000 files with press documentation. Exhibition and collection catalogues from before 1991 cannot yet be searched on all fields.

The catalogue of the library of the Van Abbemuseum also contains information about exhibitions organized by the museum since 1936. References to all kinds of materials.
The library has a website of its own with more detailed information.

Catalogue of the complete holdings of the library of the Van Gogh Museum (24,000 books, 4500 articles, audiovisual materials). Contains also the Arti et Amicitiae library. Speciality: visual arts from the period 1800-1920.

Catalogue of the Warburg Institute Library, University of London.

World Biographical Information System Online contains references on over 6 million people in 9500 biographical sources from around the world and includes the full-text from the Archives Biographiques Françaises and the Benelux Biographical Archive (Biografisch Archief van de Benelux)