Art History

Editor: Frits Lugt

The Art Sales Catalogues Online (ASCO) publication offers easy access to complete historical art sales catalogues for the period 1600 to 1900. Lugt's Répertoire online database has been included in this publication and serves as the "entrance gate" to the catalogues.

Subject: Art History

Start: 1600

End: 1900

Place: The Netherlands

This collection, earlier published in a microfiche collection by IDC Publishers, makes available a number of leading periodicals and monographs with special importance for the study of the Czechoslovak avant-garde and architecture in the period before the Second World War. It gives an excellent picture of developments during this period.

Subject: Art History

Start: 1909

End: 1938

Place: Czechoslovakia

A rich resource for garden, art and architectural historians, this primary source collection of 178 titles covers a broad range of subjects regarding the theory and practice of gardening, horticulture and garden design. Technological aspects are treated as well as garden ornaments, garden buildings, plant use, and the construction of green houses.

Subject: Art History

Start: 1600

End: 1850

Place: Europe

Editor: Charlotte Douglas, New York University

The collection documents the history of modern Russian and Ukrainian art. It encompasses critical literature, illustrated books, and art periodicals. The collection also offers a selection of early 20th century art-related serials. These historical sources of pre- and post-revolutionary art reflect the diversity of artistic thought in the first thirty years of the 20th century.

Subject: Art History

Start: 1907

End: 1930

Place: Russia, Ukraine

Brill’s Military Architecture 1600-1900 contains a selection of 99 printed works that represents the revolutionary developments in fortification in Early Modern Europe in theory and in practice. This collection was published earlier in a microfiche collection by IDC Publishers.

Subject: Art History

This edition presents a broad cross-section of the Wagner literature of the nineteenth century as held by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich, which possesses one of the world’s finest collections of Wagneriana. The collection consists of three parts - Secondary Literature of the Nineteenth century; Wagner’s Mein Leben, 1870-1880; Mathilde Wesendonck‘s Complete Published Writings.

Subject: Art History

Start: 1853

End: 1898

Place: Switzerland

This collection contains the study collection of photographs; some drawings, tracings and prints; and correspondence with friends and patrons of the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) who moved to England in 1870 where he became very famous.

Subject: Art History

Start: 1877

End: 1922

Place: The Netherlands