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Punctuation and spacing must match entries exactly; however, an ampersand (&) must be replaced by a period when searching (e.g., to find Ink & colors enter Ink . colors). Uppercase AND, OR, and NOT serve as Boolean operators. To see how the database entries correspond to the actual slide labels click here.


Main Entry:	(e.g., `Donatello` or `Paris`)
Title:	(e.g., `Monk by the Sea`)
Accession Number:	(e.g., `001670`)
Medium:	(e.g., `Ph`)
Period:	(e.g., `16` or `16A`)
Country:	(e.g., `GER`)
Course Number:	(e.g., `Cohen 170`)
Professor:	(e.g., `Camille`)
Location1:
Location2:
Artist:
Artist's Birth Date:
Artist's Death Date:
Date of Work:
Date Circa:
Work Begun:
Work Completed:
Era:
Century:
Subject:
Author of Source:
Title of Source:
Cross Reference:
Date of Accession:
Cataloger:
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Main Entry: In general, main entries consist of names of artists or architects (in inverted order, e.g., WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd) and names of cities in the case of monuments and some buildings and manuscripts. This field is a string search. In other words, realize that entering rome will retrieve "Gerome." To search for Rome enter rome NOT gerome or ^rome.

Title: For paintings and images the title of the work is entered in this field. For architecture, the name of the building or room or a more specific location has been entered. This field is a string search. In other words, realize that entering monk will retrieve "monkey."

Accession Number: The accession number is the unique six digit number by which a slide is tracked. This field requires an exact match.

Medium: The following "media" codes are currently available. This field requires an exact match.

A = Architecture
Ar = Archaeology
P = Painting
S = Sculpture
D = Drawing
Pms = Illuminations
Ga = Graphics
Mos = Mosaics
Ma = Minor Arts General
Mc = Ceramics

Mf = Furniture
Mg = Glass
Mi = Ivory
Mm = Metals
Mt = Textiles
Ph = Photography
G = Historical Background and Maps
SF = Special File (Other Media
as well as Contextual Information)
VC = Visual Communication (Commercial art and ads)

Period: The following "period" codes are currently available. This field requires an exact match.

1 = Prehistoric
3 = Pre-Columbian Africa
4 = Egypt
5 = Near East (Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Syria-Palestine,
Iran, Scythian)
5A = Judaic
6 = Bronze Age (Crete, Minoan, Cyclades, Mainland
Greece, Helladic/Mycenean,East Greece,Cyprus)
8 = Greece
9 = Roman
9A = Etruscan
10 = Early Christian

11 = Byzantine
12 = Pre-Romanesque
13 = Islamic
14 = Romanesque
15 = Gothic
16 = Renaissance
16A = Baroque
17 = Chinese, Japanese, Indian
18 = Modern
19 = 9c. Photographs
20 = 20c Photographs

Country: The following "country" codes are currently available. This field requires an exact match.

AFR = Africa
AN = Anatolia
ARG = Argentina
ARM = Armenia
AS = Assyria
ASL = Australia
AUS = Austria
BAB = Babylonia
BEL = Belgium
BLZ = Belize
BOL = Bolivia
BRA = Brazil
BYZ = Byzantine
C = Crete (Minoan)
CA = Canada
CAR = Caribean
CH = China
CHL = Chile
COL = Colombia
CPT = Coptic
CUB = Cuba
CY = Cycladic
CZ = Czechoslovakia

D = Dutch (Netherlands)
DEN = Denmark
ECU = Ecuador
EG = Egypt
ENG = England (includes Scotland)
ETR = Etruscan
FIN = Finland
FL = Flanders
FR = France
GEO = Georgia
GER = Germany
GR = Greek
GUA = Guatemala
HOL = Holland
HON = Honduras
HUN = Hungary
IND = India
IRE = Ireland
IRN = Iran
ISR = Israel
IT = Italy
JAP = Japan

JU = Judaic
MES = Mesopotamia
MEX = Mexica
NOR = Norway
OC = Oceania
P = Persia
PAN = Panama
PER = Peru
POL = Poland
POR = Portugal
RO = Roman
ROU = Romania
RUS = Russia
SCY = Scythian
SP = Spain
SWE = Sweden
SWI = Switzerland
SYR = Syria
TUR = Turkey
US = United States
VEN = Venezuela
YUG = Yugoslavia

Course Number: Enter the course number to find slides for a particular course (e.g., Nelson 211). This field is a string search.

Produced in collaboration with the ARTFL Project.
Please direct comments or queries to Ben Kessler, Director, Visual Resources Collection.