BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material including articles from over 1,200 journals. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

The Getty Provenance Index® contains more than 2.2 million records that can be used for a wide variety of research purposes

FAQ page about how to use the Getty Provenance Research database.

The Grove® Dictionary of Art is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of the visual arts, with 30,000 signed and peer-reviewed articles contributed by nearly 7,000 international scholars. Grove Art features entries on artists, architects, craftsmen, patrons, movements, locations, and periods, as well as bibliographies for further research and thousands of searchable images made available through Oxford’s partnerships with museums, galleries, and other outstanding arts organizations.

The International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit educational and research organization dedicated to integrity in the visual arts. IFAR offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects.

Nearly 170,000 biographical entries on artists across all media; also includes images of artists signatures, monograms, stamps of sale, detailed museum listings, bibliographies, exhibition information, and auction records.

The Archives of American Art is the world’s preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

The Bridgeman Education database is an invaluable research, teaching and learning tool: a unique archive of digital images sourced from the world’s leading museums, galleries, contemporary artists and private collections.

The Photoarchive is a study collection of over 1.2 million photographic reproductions of works of art from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century. These reproductions are accompanied by extensive documentation about the original works of art, which is continuously updated to reflect changes in attribution, ownership, and condition. One of the first institutions of its kind in the country, the Photoarchive provides an unparalleled resource for the study of the history of art.

The Photo Archive's two million photographs provide supplementary and original pictorial research for the study of fine arts from antiquity to the modern period. The archive's strength lies in the photographic reproduction of western art, architecture, and decorative arts.

The library's department of image collections is a study and research center predominantly for photographic images of Western art and architecture and is one of the largest of its kind. Areas of particular strength include American, Dutch, French and Italian art, the arts of Asia, and the architecture of France, Italy and Germany. Its holdings number approximately sixteen million photographs, slides, negatives, microforms, and digital images. The department serves a national and international audience that includes National Gallery of Art staff, members of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and other qualified researchers.

The Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz is one of the most important academic photo archives in the world for research into Italian art and architecture from the Late Antiquity to the modern day, with a focus on Middle and Upper Italy. Part of the photo archive, which has been growing since 1897 and currently contains 630.000 photographs, is also available online. A quarter of the inventory has already been academically catalogued in APS-MIDAS: Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur

This database brings together for the first time in searchable illustrated form the remaining registration cards and photographs produced by the ERR covering more than 40,000 art objects taken from Jews in German-occupied France and, to a lesser extent, in Belgium. Searchable by individual objects and by the owners from whom these objects were taken, the database is a detailed record of a small but important part of the vast seizure of cultural property that was integral to the Holocaust.

The National Stolen Art File (NSAF) is a database of stolen art and cultural property. Stolen objects are submitted for entry to the NSAF by law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad. When an object is recovered, it is removed from the database. However, be aware that not all recoveries are reported to the NSAF.

The Lost Art Database documents cultural assets which were displaced or relocated as a result of the events of World War II, or – in the case of Jewish ownership – items that were illegally confiscated by the Nazis under threat of persecution.

Database of stolen works of art combines descriptions and pictures of more than 52,000 items. It is the only database at the international level with certified police information on stolen and missing objects of art.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an international epicenter of Holocaust-related research. NARA holds millions of records created or received by the U.S. Government during and after World War II that document Nazi war crimes, wartime refugee issues, and activities and investigations of U.S. Government agencies involved in the identification and recovery of looted assets (including gold, art, and cultural property)-as well as captured German records used as evidence at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, U.S. military tribunals at Nuremberg, and U.S. Army courts.