Guide to Research in History of Art & Architecture  

Prometheus is a digital image archive for art and culture. Prometheus provides a common user interface that allow searching across multiple image archives, databases from art history research institutes, and museums, primarily in Germany. Content includes 61 art history, design, architectural, theological, history and archaeological image databases containing approximately 756,000 images. Create a profile to save and edit images for presentation.

        
Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
30 March 2012 - 2 June 2012  

Lyonel Feininger Photographs, 1928 - 1939                                                                  

Untitled (Night View of Trees and Streetlamp, Burgkühnauer Allee, Dessau), 1928, Lyonel Feininger, gelatin silver print, Gift of T. Lux Feininger, Houghton Library, Harvard University, MS Ger 146.4 (291). © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Founded in 1895 as a part of the Fogg Art Museum, The Fine Arts Library is among the leading libraries in the world for the study of art, architecture, and visual culture from antiquity to the present. Our collections include extensive textual and visual documentation about individual paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts; the history of collecting and taste; art museums; and art conservation.  In addition to outstanding collections of books, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, pamphlets, and auction catalogs, the Library’s special collections contain over two million photographs, prints, postcards, albums, film stills, posters, rubbings, and drawings.

Search for books, multimedia, and websites:

Use HOLLIS or HOLLIS Classic to search for books, journals, images, and other media in Harvard Libraries.
Use WorldCat and artlibraries.net to search for books and other publications in national and international libraries beyond Harvard.

Search for journal articles, dissertations, conference proceedings, essays, and chapters in multi-author publications:

Use Art FullText, Art Index Retrospective, Bibliography of the History of Art, International Bibliography of Art, and ArtBibliographies Modern

Search for background, context, and general bibliography:

Use Grove Art Online and Oxford Art Online