Research Guide: Art History

The Integrated Research Information System, is the online catalogue of the Getty Research Library. The IRIS database contains over 500,000 bibliographic records for the 800,000 volumes of books, serials, and auction catalogs in the general and special collections, as well as descriptive records of approximately 3,000 archival and photograph collections.

Common catalogue of six Florentine art historical Libraries. Iris includes the libraries of the Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, the Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte "R. Longhi," the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici e Storici per le Province di Firenze e Pistoia (Uffizi), the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Villa I Tatti (Biblioteca Berenson).

Includes digitised auction catalogues.

Austrian union catalogue including higher education and research libraries.

Union catalogue of the National Library of Poland

Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog

Union catalogue of German art historical research institutes: the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Central Institutes of Art History, Munich, the German Forum of Art History, Paris, and Bibliotheca Hertziana (MPI), Rome.

DigiBib is a union catalogue that allows searches of multiple German library catalogues at once. It is an online project of the Hochschulbibliothekszentrum of Nordrhein-Westfalen (HBZ) in Cologne.

Base Nacional de Dados Bibliográficos. Union catalogue from the National Library of Portugal.

Union catalogue of the holdings of French higher education and research libraries, with more than 12 billion records with metadata for books, theses, journals, electronic resources, audiovisual documents, microforms, maps, manuscripts and rare books.

Union catalogue run by the National Library of Italy.

Digitized manuscripts from the Vatican Library

Includes digitised auction catalogues.