Cicognara Library
The Library is proud to announce the addition of several thousand records to FRESCO for the titles included in the Cicognara Library, which is now part of the Vatican Library in Rome. In 1824, Conte Leopoldo Cicognara (1767-1834) donated his library of mainly art and archaeology texts, dating from the beginning of printing to the early nineteenth century, to the Vatican Library. A joint project between the Vatican Library and the University of Illinois is approaching the end of a multi-year project to make available the approximately 5,000 volumes of his library on microfiche. The full text of the titles published on microfiche is available in the Reading Room at the Library. Access to the items in the collection was previously limited to an index Cicognara published in 1821. With funding from the Kress Foundation, The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, recently completed a cataloging project to create online records for the titles included in the Cicognara microfiche collection. These records have been uploaded into FRESCO, allowing researchers at the Frick Art Reference Library to easily identify texts in this collection and to examine the full text of these titles on microfiche.
Center for the History of Collection in America
The Frick Collection announces plans to establish a Center for the History of Collecting in America, to be located at the Frick Art Reference Library in New York. With a planning grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Frick Collection has an opportunity to create an institutional base for expanding and nurturing this burgeoning field, with particular emphasis on collecting in America.
JSTOR
The Frick Art Reference Library is happy to announce the availability on site of JSTOR's Arts & Sciences III Collection database. JSTOR's Arts & Sciences III Collection offers full-text access to archived back issues of periodicals dealing with art, art history, architecture, architectural history, music, film studies, folklore, language, literature, performing arts, philosophy, and religion. Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Burlington Magazine, October, Gesta, Journal of Architectural Historians, Metropolitan Museum Journal, and Women’s Art Journal are some of the titles available.
Points of View: The Power of Art Journalism
If newspapers are the first draft of history, it follows that art journals are the first draft of art history. With more than 2,500 journals covering topics ranging from practical advice on design trends to loftier grapplings with aesthetics, the periodical collection of the Frick Art Reference Library captures the interest of specialists in all fields of the arts. This is the first Web version of the regularly scheduled exhibitions in the Library.
ARTstor
The ARTstor image database is now available ON SITE at the Frick Art Reference Library. ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. More than 300,000 images are currently available, with plans to add 200,000 more images by the end of the year. ARTstor provides storage space for creating personally tailored collections of images as well as an online and offline image viewer that allows for the detailed examination of images with unique zoom capabilities. Images not from ARTstor can be added to presentations using its offline image viewer and images from ARTstor can be added to presentations using other software (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint). Individual registration, free of charge, is required to access all options. Requires download to use and access the offline image viewer.
New Version of FRESCO with Auction Catalogs
Records for the renowned collection of more than 74,000 auction sales catalogs held by the Frick Art Reference Library are now available in FRESCO (Frick Research Catalog Online). The FRESCO interface has been redesigned to allow users to search the entire collection of materials or to search just the auction catalogs held by the Library. The SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs database, also available on site at the Library, complements the auction sales catalogs records listed in FRESCO by providing information on the auction sales catalogs holdings of other research institutions.
Art Sales Catalogues Online
Searchable database version of Frits Lugt's Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques for the years 1600-1900, available on site at the Frick Art Reference Library. Includes additions and corrections of the original publication. Lists auction sales catalogs holdings for the Frick Art Reference Library and other institutions. Allows FULL TEXT access to a number of auction sales catalogs listed in the database.
Digital Project for Endangered Negatives
(Pforzheimer/NYT, 2004-7)
In order to realize its long-term commitment of providing a digital surrogate for its million-plus image Photoarchive, the Library has begun the process of digitizing its collection of 60,000 negatives. In 2003, a four-year project commenced to convert 5,000 of the most endangered of these negatives and their accompanying documentation to digital form. This project, generously underwritten by the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation and The New York Times Company Foundation, will ensure that images of unpublished works of art, uniquely recorded by the Library’s spoiling negatives, will be available for researchers of future generations.
Digital Project for Endangered Sansoni and Cooper Negatives
(ARTstor, 2005-7)
Shortly after beginning the Pforzheimer Project, the Library signed an agreement with ARTstor to digitize more of its negatives. An independent not-for-profit organization spearheaded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARTstor embraces an over-arching objective of offering worldwide access to a digital databank of images for teachers and researchers in the history of art as well as other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With funding from ARTstor, the Library is digitizing all of its negatives from Mario Sansoni’s photographing campaigns in Italy, as well as the photographs of lots offered for sale at Sotheby’s and Christie’s taken by the London-based firm A.C. Cooper between 1922 and 1937. In all, the project will result in digital access to nearly 20,000 images and accompanying documentation on works of art that have rarely, if ever, been published.
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