The Curious Frau

Guide to Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur

This is wonderful site that can eat up hours, days of time as you browse it. Most of the images are black and white, but it makes up for it by the variety and depth of the collection. It is in German, see the search guide for assistance.

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Research: The Good, the OK and the Awful!

Before we get into finding new books and resources to purchase, ILL or borrow, lets talk about the three different kinds of research out there that you need to know about so you can judge your sources. The three kinds are, The Good, the OK and the Awful!

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Guide to REALonline - Digitales Bildarchiv

Introduction to REALonline

REALonline is an online database belonging to the Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters in Austria. I like to think of it as the Austrian version of Bildindex.de, except with more color pictures, vastly better indexing and a much faster user interface. It has over 14,000 works of art, many of which have detail images, that are available for viewing online and they have been tagged with catalogue entries in 13 available catalogues.

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Illustrated Glossary of German Costuming Terms

When you're getting started its easy to get confused by all the different new words used to describe clothes. 

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Online Art Research

Favorite Online Art Research Sites

Here is a collection of sites that I find very useful in doing art research, some of them are in English and some of them are not. For the ones that aren’t, I have written a little guide for each on how to use the search functions, even when you haven’t the slightest clue what the words are saying.

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Timeline of Events and Fashions in the Germanic Lands 15th and 16th centuries

I have tried to present a timeline of historical events and fashions from the same period. Some of these are standalone pictures while others are links to more in depth resources. For more art resources, see the Art Research page

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