A Checklist of Painters, C1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
A Checklist of Painters, C1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Author: Witt Library

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9781884964374

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The Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, is one of the world's greatest art history libraries. It contains some 1.7 million illustrations of the work of painters, draughtsmen, and engravers of the Western tradition, all of whom have been indexed by name, dates, and nationality. This new second edition of the Checklist of Painters is a transcription of the Witt index as it currently exists. The names of 66,000 artists, their dates, and their nationality (or school) are reproduced in alphabetical order. The Checklist of Painters is probably the most exhaustive work of its kind in existence; it now lists all painters (known by art historians) to have lived and worked from the year 1200 to 1994.

Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994
Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994

Author: Witt Library of the Courtauld Institute

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 558

ISBN-13: 1134264135

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Art History
Art History

Author: W. McAllister Johnson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780802068415

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These essays discuss major questions that should arise in courses in bibliography, methodology, and historiography, once the survey courses are left behind.

Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies
Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies

Author: Patricia Harpring

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2010-04-13

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 160606018X

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This detailed book is a “how-to” guide to building controlled vocabulary tools, cataloging and indexing cultural materials with terms and names from controlled vocabularies, and using vocabularies in search engines and databases to enhance discovery and retrieval online. Also covered are the following: What are controlled vocabularies and why are they useful? Which vocabularies exist for cataloging art and cultural objects? How should they be integrated in a cataloging system? How should they be used for indexing and for retrieval? How should an institution construct a local authority file? The links in a controlled vocabulary ensure that relationships are defined and maintained for both cataloging and retrieval, clarifying whether a rose window and a Catherine wheel are the same thing, or how pot-metal glass is related to the more general term stained glass. The book provides organizations and individuals with a practical tool for creating and implementing vocabularies as reference tools, sources of documentation, and powerful enhancements for online searching.

Introduction to Vocabularies
Introduction to Vocabularies

Author: Elisa Lanzi

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1999-02-11

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0892365447

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Digital networking will make our global cultural heritage accessible to a widespread audience. To reach this audience, it is essential to create and employ terminology that brings consistency to the language used in information retrieval contexts. Introduction to Vocabularies highlights the crucial role that controlled vocabularies play in the description, cataloging, or documentation of cultural heritage information. The book stresses the importance of standards and the role of authority work in creating and managing vocabularies that would ensure integrated access. The book concludes with descriptions of three vocabulary databases developed by the Getty Information Institute. The Introduction to series acquaints professionals and students with the complex issues and technologies in the production, management, and dissemination of cultural heritage information resources.

Guide to the Literature of Art History 2
Guide to the Literature of Art History 2

Author: Max Marmor

Publisher: ALA Editions

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13:

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"This bibliography supplements the greatest of modern art bibliographies, Etta Arntzen and Robert Rainwater's Guide to the literature of art history (ALA, 1980)"--Preface.

British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections
British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections

Author: Christopher Wright

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 950

ISBN-13: 9780300117301

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This book sets a new standard as a work of reference. It covers British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth, and it encompasses nearly 9,000 painters and 90,000 paintings in more than 1,700 separate collections. The book includes as well pictures that are now lost, some as a consequence of the Second World War and others because of de-accessioning, mostly from 1950 to about 1975 when Victorian art was out of fashion. By listing many tens of thousands of previously unpublished works, including around 13,000 which do not yet have any form of attribution, this book becomes a unique and indispensable work of reference, one that will transform the study of British and Irish painting.

Painting the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century
Painting the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Yehoshua Ben-Arieh

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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The Holy Land has captures the attention of mankind since the very beginning of human civilization, and even more so from the early days of Christianity. Nineteenth-century Palestine fired the imagination of the Western world. Improved travel facilities and greater political stability in the Near Easst brought ever-increasing numbers of visitors to the Holy Land, affecting the quantity and quality of the pictorial depictions of its sites and scenes. Like other countries in the exotic Muslim East, Palestine also became a point of focal interest for painters of the Orientalist school. The author has assembled a fascinating collection of unique works of art, executed in the diverse styles of nineteenth-century painting. Around these reproductions, many of them in colour, he reconstructs the story of the artists who produced them, who came from many European countries and from North America. The result is an important and unique perspective on the sites, persons, events and customs of the Holy Land in that century.