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UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA

Bibliologia i cultura escrita. Gateway to book history Internet resources, by Ramon Soler i Fabregat
Dipòsit Digital de Documents (DDD). Collects, manages, disseminates and preserves the scientific, educational and administrative production of the University while collecting digital documents from UAB libraries collections. See specially: Revistes antigues d'art i cultura, Llibres and Entre la lletra i la imatge: un itinerari pel fons hemerogràfic Marca

CATALONIA

ARCA: Arxiu de Revistes Catalanes Antigues. Catalan journals, 19th and early 20th centuries, several with artistic subject
Biblioteca de Catalunya. Fons digitalitzats. Includes ancient holdings of the National Library of Catalonia (Barcelona)
CRAI de la Universitat de Barcelona. Fons de Reserva. Ancient documents in the Barcelona University Library
Fons antic de la Biblioteca de l'Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona
Memòria Digital de Catalunya. Cooperative repository of the Consorci de Biblioteques Universitàries de Catalunya, with open access to digitized collections of Catalan scope

SPAIN

Biblioteca Digital Dioscórides. Arte y arquitectura. Ancient books in the Library of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid
Biblioteca Digital Hispánica. Secció: Bellas artes. Resource by the National Library of Spain (Madrid), which provides access to thousands of digitized documents
Biblioteca Digital Siglo de Oro. By Sagrario López Poza (Seminario Interdisciplinar para el Estudio de la Literatura Àurea Española, Universidade da Coruña). Contents: Emblemática, Relaciones de sucesos, Poliantea (enciclopedias y recursos de erudición), Inventarios y bibliotecas
Biblioteca Valenciana Digital (BIVALDI). Bibliographic heritage of the Valencian Community
Biblioteca Virtual de Andalucía. Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura y Patrimonio Histórico
Biblioteca Virtual del Patrimonio Bibliográfico. Cooperative project of the Ministry of Culture and the Autonomous Communities with the aim of spreading collections of manuscripts and printed books, as part of the Spanish historical heritage
Biblioteca Virtual de Prensa Histórica. Project resulting of a process of cooperative press digitizing by the Ministry of Culture, the Autonomous Communities and other institutions. See specially: Revistas culturales
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. See specially: Exploradores y viajeros por España y el nuevo mundo ; Fondo Antiguo de Universidades y colecciones singulares
Catálogo Monumental de España (1900-1961). Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España & Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC
Centro de Estudios Históricos de Obras Publicas y Urbanismo (CEHOPU). Biblioteca digital
Colección Digital Politécnica. Special collections of the Library of the Polytechnic University (Madrid). See specially: Fuentes para la historia de la construcción
Compilaciones de arquitectura. By Nina Patricia. Studies on Spanish architectural treatises, 16th-19th centuries
España Sagrada. Corography of Spanish religious houses, written by Enrique Flórez (17th century). Available from the Internet Archive
Hispana. Directory of Spanish digital resources, promoted by the Ministry of Culture
Historia de las ideas estéticas en España. By Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo (Biblioteca Virtual de Polígrafos, Fundación Ignacio Larramendi)
Producción, circulación y uso del libro de arte en España durante la edad moderna. By Ramon Soler i Fabregat (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Art)
Proyecto Diccionario Ceán Bermúdez. Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, Diccionario de los mas ilustres profesores de las bellas artes en España (1800)
Sociedad Española de Historia de la Construcción. Biblioteca digital. Treatises on architecture and building
Somni: col·lecció digital de fons històric de la Universitat de València. Roderic, repository of free access
Universidad de Sevilla. Fondo Antiguo. Library of the University of Sevilla

INTERNATIONAL

La Biblioteca dell'architetto del Rinascimento. Biblioteca Universitaria di Padova
Bibliotheca Mechanico-Architectonica: an open source digital library between mechanics and architecture. Associazione Edoardo Benvenuto (Genoa)
Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes. Art (BVH). Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (University of Tours)
BIVIO: Biblioteca Virtuale On-line. Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento & Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Blue Mountain Project: historic avant-garde periodicals for digital research, 1848-1923. Clifford E. Wulfman (Princeton University)
CERL Portal: manuscripts and early printed material. Union catalogue maintained by the Consortium of European Research Libraries
The Digital Cicognara Library: an open-access collection of the early literature of the arts. Digitization of the fund Leopoldo Cicognara (4.759 titles) at the Biblioteca Vaticana
Bibliotheca Cicognara. Digitization of the fund Cicognara (1.800 titles) at the Princeton University Library
Digital Research Library for the Study of Long-Term Developments in the History of Mechanics. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Digitalisierte Exemplare der Rara. Bibliotheca Hertziana (Roma)
Drawing with optical instruments: devices and concepts of visuality and representation. Mainly works on perspective. Freie Universität Berlin, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science & European Cultural Heritage Online
Getty Research Portal. Metasearcher of digital libraries (155.000 titles)
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog (KVK). Metasearcher in libraries, bookshops and digital repositories (Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB); Google Books ; HathiTrust Digital Library ; Internet Archive, etc.)
Lessico diacronico tecniche artistiche. Works about sculpture, 16th-19th centuries. Università degli studi di Bergamo - Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa)
Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources. By Luciano, Giovanni and Francesco Mazzaferro
Online Books Page. Section: Fine Arts. Directory maintained at the University of Pennsylvania
Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL). Includes books on religious images (15th-18th c.)
Project Gutenberg. Section: Fine arts. Universal project of books digitization
Renaissance festival books: treasures in full. 16th and 17th centuries' works. British Library (Londres)
Sources Concerning the Development of Knowledge in the History of Architecture. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
The Universal Digital Library. In Subject, select: Architecture or Art. Carnegie Mellon University
Vitruviana. e-rara/Elektronische Bibliothek Schweiz - Werner Oechslin Library Foundation. 47 old editions of Vitruvius' De architectura
World Digital Library. Section: Arts & recreation. Unesco

GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND

Arthistoricum.net FONTES. Digital collection of art texts written or published 1350 to 1750

BSB-CodIcon Online. Secció: Architektur. Bayern State Library (München)

e-rara.ch, the platform for digitized rare books from Swiss libraries. See in Topics and collections: Historical scientific literature (obras de arquitectura e inginierí, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule); Vitruviana (ancient editions of De architectura)

Festkultur Online: deutsche Drucke des 17. Jahrhunderts zur Festkultur des Barock. Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel

iDAI.bookbrowser. Digitization of books on classical archaeology. Part of the server Arachne (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Berlín) & University of Cologne)

Kunstwissenschaftliche Literatur-digital. Digital art library from 16th to 19th century, by Heidelberg University

Sandrart.net. Interactive version of Joachim von Sandrart's Teutsche Akademie

SLUB Dresden Digital Collections. Old books at the Dresden State & University Library

Winckelmann-Ausgabe. Works of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz

Wolfenbüttel Digital Library. Old books at the Herzog August Bibliothek

BELGIUM AND NETHERLANDS

ARTECHNE database: History of technique in the arts, 1500-1950. Books of recipes, Books of secrets and artist handbooks. Universiteit Utrecht & Universiteit Amsterdam

DBNL: Digital Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren. Taalunie, Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken & Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague)

FLANDRICA.BE. Art. Flemish digital library of 5th-20th works. Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek - Flanders Heritage Library

Mondrian papers: the complete letters and theoretical writings of Piet Mondrian. Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie - Netherlands Institute for Art History - Huygens Institute for Dutch History

Ursicula. Dutch works of 16th-18th centuries, including books on art and iconology, and foreign illustrated books. Leiden University

Vincent van Gogh: the letters. Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (editors)

UNITED STATES

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture. University of Wisconsin-Madison

EOS: Electronic Open Stacks. 15th-20th centuries books on ancient archaeology. University of Chicago Library

Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Library of Congress (Washington D.C.)

Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology. Princeton University Library, Digital PUL

Perseus Collection. Greek and Roman Materials. Includes classical works on art and architecture (original and English translation). Tufts University

FRANCE

Album de Villard de Honnecourt. Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus (editor)

ARCHITECTVRA: architecture, textes et images. Architectural treatises of the 16th and 17th centuries. Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (University of Tours)

Architectural Treatises of the French Renaissance. University of Virginia Library, Douglas Gordon Collection. Other address

Bibliothèque numérique de l'INHA. Containing digital collections of the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (Paris)

Collection de documents relatifs à l'architecture et à la topographie en France. Collection of French architecture & topography documents. French works from 16th to 19th century. Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive

Conférences de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (1648-1792). Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Christian Michel (Max Weber Stiftung - Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte)

DIGIMOM: la bibliothèque numérique. Maison de l’Orient et de la Mediterranée. Mainly XIXth and early XXth centuries' works, concerning Egypt, Middle East and Greco-roman world

Gallica. Digital library of the National Library of France. See specially: Arts, loisirs, sports ; Voyages en France ; Voyages en Italie ; Collection Deloynes ; Manuels et traités sur la gravure ; Ouvrages de référence en arts et archéologie ; Presse artistique

Numelyo: bibliothèque numérique de Lyon. Livres anciens. Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. 104.000 digitized old books

RenTexte: textes de la Renaissance. Russon Wooldridge (University of Toronto)

GREAT BRITAIN

British Architectural Library (London). Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA)

EEBO: Early English Books Online. 1473-1700. Universities of Oxford and Michigan - Chadwyck-Healey. Payable

The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: periodical criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, 1846 to 1900. Thomas J. Tobin

Renaissance Festival Books. In the collection British Library Treasures in Full

The Rossetti Archive: complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Warburg Digital Library Collections. Warburg Institute, University of London

William Blake Archive. Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, Joseph Viscomi

William Morris Archive. University of Iowa Libraries - William Morris Society

William Morris Internet Archive. Marxists Internet Archive

ITALY

Art theorists of the Italian Renaissance. University of Chicago Library - Chadwyck-Healey. Art and architecture treatises printed between 1470 and 1775. Payable

La Biblioteca delle fonti storico-artistiche. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Biblioteca Italiana. University of Rome ""La Sapienza""

Celebrating Italian Festivals. 16th-19th centuries' books. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Corpus Informatico Belloriano. Works of Giovan Pietro Bellori (17th century). Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

De Bibliotheca: la biblioteca di Babele. Classics of Italian literature

Digital Serlio Project. Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University (Nova York). Editions and manuscript of Sebastiano Serlio's architecture books

The Ethernal City: Roman guidebooks and histories from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. National Gallery of Art Library

Falda Publications. Illustrated descriptions of Rome published by Giovanni Battista Falda (17th century). Princeton University Library

Florentine History and Topography in Selected Sources. Guides of Florence, 18th century. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Saunterings in Florence: guides to place, space, and tourism in the 19th century. Guides of Florence, 19th century. Jasmine Proteau (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)

Fondazione Memofonte. Founder: Paola Barocchi. Italian writings on art, 16th-20th centuries. The following two are related resources:

Trattati d'arte del Cinquecento. Accademia della Crusca - Fondazione Memofonte. Searchable texts: Vasari (1550, 1568), Varchi, Pino, Dolce, Gilio, V. Danti, C. Borromeo, Sorte, Ammannati, Paleotti, Bocchi, R. Alberti, Armenini, Comanini

Vasari scrittore: una banca dati per testi e lessico vasariano. Fondazione Memofonte - Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Regione Toscana. Contents: Archivio Scritti (database of the Vite [1550, 1568], Ricordanze, Ragionamenti, Carteggio ; Lemmario artistico (lexicon of the Vite)

Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite: edizioni giuntina e torrentiniana. 1550 and 1568. Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Grand Tour. Journeys of English and French people in Tuscany (17th-19th centuries). Internet culturale - Biblioteca nazionale centrale (Florence)

Grand Tour: il viaggio in Toscana dei viaggiatori inglesi e francesi dalla fine del XVII secolo agli inizi del XIX secolo. Biblioteca nazionale centrale (Florence)

Leonardo da Vinci & his treatise on painting. Francesca Fiorani (University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)

Liber Liber. Section: Arte e architettura. Sources for the history of Italian art

Manoscriti in rete. Biblioteca nazionale centrale (Florence)

Monumenta Rariora: la fortuna della statuaria antica nei repertori a stampa. Descriptions of art works from the Antiquity in Roman guides (16th-18th centuries). Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

Museo Galileo. Collezioni tematiche. Former Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Florence). See specially: Bibliotheca Perspectivae, De Prospectiva Pingendi, La Biblioteca di Leonardo, Sapere Scientifico

Opere complete di Francesco Milizia risguardanti le belle arti (1827). HathiTrust Digital Library

Venetocultura.org. Fonti storico artistiche. Contents: Michiel, Pino, Vasari 1568, Palladio, Sansovino, Ridolfi, Boschini, Zanetti, Lanzi, Berenson

Vocabolario toscano dell'arte del disegno. Filippo Baldinucci (1680)