Useful online study resources

Columbia University Resources
		CLIO, Columbia's Online Library Information Center
New York City Museums
		Metropolitan Museum of Art
		The Frick Collection
		Pierpont Morgan Library
Online Reference Resources
		Bartelby.com offers searching within a repository of research texts including the Columbia Encyclopedia, Bullfinche's Mythology and the King James Bible
		xrefer.com This reference site describes itself as a giant online reference library... that includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. Titles of interest for the visual arts include:The Oxford Dictionary of Art, The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms, The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists
		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) The AAT is a structured vocabulary of around 125,000 terms, scope notes, and other information for describing fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing around 220,000 names and biographical information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
		The Getty Research Institute Vocabulary Programs: The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) The TGN is a structured vocabulary of around 1,000,000 geographic names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

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