Arts & Humanities: Fine Arts


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Art | Theater

    Art

  1. Grove Dictionary of Art UVA only
    Online edition to the classic 34-volume print encyclopedia. Search or browse through over 40,000 entries. Inlcudes links to thousands of images.

  2. Museum Directory
    International directory of all types of museums: art, childrens, history, science, technology, and others. Listed by country and then by state, type and alphabetically.

  3. Artcyclopedia: the guide to museum-quality art on the Internet
    Browse or search works from over 5,000 artists in 200 museums and art galleries around the world (though primarily US-based).

  4. Union List of Artists Names
    Provides birth & death dates, variant forms of names, and also identifies published sources for biographical data for nearly 100,000 artists. From the Getty Information Institute.

  5. ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
    Dictionary of more than 2,600 terms from art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and art education.

  6. Index of Christian Art UVA only
    Searchable index of early Christian iconography including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, frescos, metalwork, glasswork, etc. from early apostolic times to 1400 A.D. Database contains 500,000 detailed entries, nearly 100,000 photographs, and includes works from hundreds of museums, libraries, churches, and cathedrals in most European countries. Compiled by over thirty year period by Charles Rufus Morey at Princeton University.

    Theater

  7. Playwrights on the Web
    International database of more than 100 playwrights and their websites. With a link to the Internet Theatre Bookshop.

  8. Villiage Voice Obie Awards Database
    Search for Obie winners back to 1955. Browse by year and category or search by actor or performance.

  9. Inter-Play
    An on-line index to nearly 15,000 plays in many languages published in collections, anthologies, and periodicals. Most plays included are not found in printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections of Play Index.

  10. Tony Awards Archives
    Search through 50 years of Tony Awards winners and nominees by award category (actor, libretto, score, etc.), artist, or show.

  11. Musicals101.com's Alphabetical List of Stage Musicals
    A list of nearly 700 musicals that opened on Broadway (and most popular off-Broadway and London shows). Information includes opening date, number of performances, and (rights) licenser. Also includes a handy stage chronology.

  12. ABT Ballet Dictionary
    Dictionary of nearly 200 ballet-related terms from the American Ballet Theatre. Can be slow to load.



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