Research Guides: Italian Renaissance: Honors: Databases and Websites for Research

Best Bets - Databases for Researching the Italian Renaissance

Art & Architecture Source This link opens in a new window
Covers fine, decorative, and commercial art as well as architecture and architectural design. Includes 600+ full-text journals, 220+ full-text books, and 63,0000+ images. For art scholars, artists, designers, students, and general researchers.
Art and Architecture in Video This link opens in a new window
Includes documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for critical analysis. It addresses art history and theory as well as applied topics such as graphic design.
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Transitioning to Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images. This resource will migrate to a new platform on June 1, 2024. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
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Academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Literature Criticism This link opens in a new window
Includes: Contemporary Literary Criticism; Drama Criticism; Poetry Criticism; Shakespearean Criticism; Short Story Criticism; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on various literary figures.
Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.
Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new window
An account of the evolution of Western classical music, with search and browse functionality.

Scholarly journals dedicated to the Renaissance
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Websites for Researching the Italian Renaissance

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art
MetPublications - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Limited to the category of "European Art of the Renaissance.
Google Arts and Culture - Italian Renaissance
smarthistory | Europe 1300-1800
Getty Publications Virtual Library
Italy: Renaissance People and Works
A list of free, online archives, digital collections, digitized manuscripts and letters from notable people of the Italian Renaissance.