Exploratory Research
Books
Falvey Library CatalogSearch and browse Falvey Memorial Library’s collection of books, journals, audio/video materials, electronic resources and more.
WorldCat (OCLC)WorldCat is a catalog of library collections worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
WorldCat Step-by-Step is a self-paced interactive tutorial for students new to this resource.
Journal Articles
Art Full Text (EBSCO)Art Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included.
JSTORA searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals. Use the
Advanced Search feature in order to limit to art and/or architecture journals.
Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 (EBSCO)Indexes art, art history, and architecture journals published between 1929 and 1984.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (ProQuest)The single most important bibliographical research tool for research in architecture, urban design, historic preservation and urban planning history.
Philosopher's Index (ProQuest)Index to a wide range of philosophy journals.
Newspapers and Magazines
Images
ARTstorHigh quality images with detailed meta data about materials used, work types, repositories, and subjects. The Advanced Search interface has a search by creator option.
Google Art ProjectHigh quality images with reliable attributions and descriptions.
Wikimedia CommonsWikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.
Falvey Library CatalogThe Library owns a large number of art books with excellent reproductions of art works. The complete oeuvre of an artist is sometimes available in a
catalogue raisonneand can be found in the Library's catalog:
Keyword search example: "catalogue* raisonne*" AND kandinsky
The
physical description field on the
description tab in the Library's catalog identifies whether a book has illustrations:
ill. stands for illustrated and
col. ill.stands for colored illustrations.
Example: ill* AND kandinsky
NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 42,000
open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.
The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required.
Google ImagesA vast collection of images of varying quality. Attributions and descriptions can be incorrect.
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Schedule an Appointment with Jutta
Jutta Seibert
Director of Academic Integration
Falvey Library, Villanova University
800 Lancaster Avenue
Villanova
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Jutta Seibert is the subject librarian for Art History and is available for research consultations, instruction, curricular support & purchase requests.
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