Art

The Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a structured vocabulary, including terms, descriptions, and other metadata for generic concepts related to art, architecture, conservation, archaeology, and other cultural heritage. Included are work types, styles, materials, techniques, and others.

This controlled vocabulary may be used by someone cataloguing or indexing a collection as it provides preferred names or terms and synonyms for people, places, and things. It may also be helpful in retrieval of information from documentation systems and research into collections as it shows links and paths between concepts.

Contains A-Z entries on styles and movements, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. It also includes biographical entries for artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and patrons, with places and full dates of birth and death.

Contains A-Z index, covering a wide range of terms from the visual art world, including materials, techniques, and important styles and periods.

Contains A-Z index of terms and biographical entries ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present..

Contains A-Z entries on movements, styles, techniques, artists, critics, schools, and galleries from 1900 to present.

Contains A-Z entries for American art and architecture from Native American art to Colonial art to contemporary American art.

Contains over 1,600 A-Z entries from colonial times to contemporary postmodernism, with more than 4,000 links to online resources.

Contains A-Z entries of over 4,700 entries on Asian artists representing all regions of the continent, including the Middle East, and every era from antiquity to the present.

Contains over 3,000 A-Z entries on British artists, ranging from contemporary cartoonists to medieval manuscript illuminators.

Contains A-Z entries for visual arts of the Renaissance in Northern Europe.

Western Art A-Z entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of materials and techniques.

Contains A-Z entries for over 3,000 entries covering thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western cultures.

Contains A-Z entries for visual arts and provides historical and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art.

A-Z entries cover the past 160 years of international design, including entries on branding, graphics, industrial design, functionalism, and fashion.

A-Z entries cover the cultural history of biblical texts, themes, characters, images, and the Bible itself in the literary, visual, and musical arts.

Contains A-Z entries including photography technical and biographical information.

A-Z entries combine a survey of the world's gardens including articles such as garden visiting, horticulture, scientific issues, and the social history of gardens. Additionally, it contains biographies of garden designers, nurserymen, and others.

A-Z entries contain 815 comprehensive surveys of major concepts, thinkers, and debates about the meaning, uses, and value of all the arts—from painting and sculpture to literature, music, theater, dance, television, film, and popular culture.

Contains A-Z over 1,000 entries of comprehensive reference resources for the visual arts of the Classical period.

Contains over 1,600 A-Z entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history.

Contains A-Z entries from Medieval Western Europe, covering the 6th century to the early 16th century.

A-Z entries for the broad range of terms used in the study of the history of Christian art and architecture, including themes, artists, and movements.

Contains A-Z index. Supplementary to other Oxford Art & Architecture titles.

Contains over 1500 A-Z entries covering all aspects of architecture, from architects, building types, and movements and styles to materials, aspects of design, and definitions.

Contains A-Z index of more than 5,000 entries covering every period of Western architectural history.