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Via the available databases, the visitor can gain insight into archival evidence on the lives of many artists of past centuries. The library owns approximately 450,000 titles, of which ca. 150,000 are auction catalogs. There are ca. 3,000 magazines, of which 600 are currently running subscriptions.
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from the late Middle Ages until modern times. All of this is open to the public, and much of it has been digitized and is available on their website. The main goal of the bureau is to collect, categorize, and make art research available, most notably in the field of
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The Art and Architecture Thesaurus also assigns a record for each term, but these can not be referenced online by record number. Rather, they are used in the databases and the databases can be searched for terms. For example, the painting called
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The thesaurus is a set of general terms, but the RKD also contains a database for an alternate form of describing artworks, that today is mostly filled with biblical references. This is the
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Though most of the text is in Dutch, the standard record format includes a link to library entries and images of known works, which include English as well as Dutch titles.
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database. To see all images that depict Miriam's dance, the associated iconclass code 71E1232 can be used as a special search term.
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of terms for management of information on art and architecture. The original version is an initiative of the
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is accessible online. The website itself is available in both a Dutch and an English user interface.
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center in the world. The center specializes in documentation, archives, and books on
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followed by the artwork's record number. For example, the artwork record number for
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followed by the artist's record number. For example, the artist record number for
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As the logos on the window show, the RKD shares the same building (located near
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Dutch national library of art history and holder of Dutch art history thesaurus
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Though not all of the library's holdings have been digitised, much of its
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is a militia painting, and all records fitting this keyword (Dutch:
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is 3063, so its RKD artwork page can be referenced.
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is 19752, so his RKD artist page can be referenced.
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