Online Catalogues a.k.a. This system allows you to search simultaneously thousands of records from several Getty databases. Provenance Sale Contents Database, dedicated to the paintings listed in the sale catalogues, can be searched by artist's name, title, seller, price, buyer, etc. A searchable catalogue of over one million pictures held in institutions across Germany. Searches can be conducted for keywords, title, artist, place, style, period, subject, method, etc.
Searches return a textual description.
Related Online Resources Vasari Lives of the Artists A rather crude electronic copy of Vasari's text. Without proper citations or textual notes. Introduction to Imaging Issues in Constructing an Image Database, by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant. A tutorial to demonstrate how visual information is used in art. A language for the description of western European iconography organised into a a hierarchical decimal system.