Research Guides: Architecture (UNH Durham): ARTH 695/795

Welcome

This course page has been created to assist in your ARTH 695/795 research projects. For starters, take a look at the Pantheon and Colosseum in Rome, Italy, presented by Rick Steves, host of travel shows on public television and radio and writer of travel guidebooks.

Resources for Bibliography Assignment

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Brill's New Pauly This link opens in a new window
A reference work for the ancient world. Fifteen volumes (Antiquity, 1-15) are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Five volumes (Classical Tradition, I-V) are uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.
Brill's New Pauly. Supplements I This link opens in a new window
Enriches the information from the encyclopedia with its exhaustive lists of names, dates and facts about the people who shaped the ancient world. Volume 1 : Chronologies of the Ancient World - Names, Dates and Dynasties; Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts; Volume 3 : Historical Atlas of the Ancient World; Volume 4 : The Reception of Myth and Mythology. Dates of coverage: 3rd millennium BC-15th century AD
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources in a wide range of disciplines. Funded in part by the University of New Hampshire Graduate School. Coverage is not designed for current material, thus it does not cover information from the most recent 2 to 5 years.
L'Annee Philologique This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic database of scholarly works relating to all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. Covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics, including early Christian texts and patristics, Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology, and epigraphy.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Offers access to the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway, users can access and cross-search Oxford’s acclaimed, regularly updated art reference works: the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Grove Art is the foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, offering global coverage of visual culture, composed and expanded in collaboration with thousands of scholars and specialists around the world. Benezit offers unique information about the sale and collection of artists’ work, and it is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources of artists’ biographies available. In addition, users can search and access Oxford art reference titles including the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Journal of Roman Archaeology
Concerned with Italy and all parts of the Roman world from about 700 B.C. to about A.D. 700. It excludes the prehistoric period but includes the Etruscan period. It is intended to be Mediterranean-wide in its coverage, and is not intended to give priority to any particular geographical regions within the Roman world.

Archive.org
The Internet Archive--including the Wayback Machine--is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
WorldCat
WorldCat is an online catalog of more than 49 million records representing books, journals, dissertations, audio-visual materials and manuscripts in repositories worldwide. Find Books, scores and recordings beyond UNH. Items can be requested via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
HathiTrust Digital Library
Searchable access to books and government documents from U.S. research libraries. Provides full text access to items in the public domain, including most government documents. Includes congressional hearings and reports. LOG IN and select University of New Hampshire for full membership access.

archINFORM
An international architecture database incorporating information related to some 18,000 built and unbuilt projects, with greatest concentration related to 20th-century architecture.
Kubikat
The collective catalogue of four of the leading German scholarly research institutes in the field of art history.
Pleiades
Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
Zenon DAI
The DAI maintains extensive libraries, archives and collections with invaluable holdings of the greatest scientific and cultural relevance. These resources are accessible to researchers of all nationalities. Its core responsibilities make the DAI an important "door-opener" and instrument of Germany's foreign cultural and educational policy and its international scientific policy.