The Beazley Archive is a research unit of the Faculty of Classics under the direction of Donna Kurtz, Professor of Classical Art and Fellow of Wolfson College.
The Beazley Archive aims to make its original and electronic archives on classical archaeology and art available as widely as possible and to collaborate actively with colleagues in Oxford and elsewhere. The great range of assets offer a unique resource not only for the study of classical antiquity but also for the history of art and the reception of classical art since the Renaissance.
In 1979 the Beazley Archive began a text database, on Oxford University's central computer, recording information about Athenian figure-decorated vases illustrated in publications available to the Ashmolean Library (since subsumed into the Sackler Library). There are now over 98,000 entries, with fourteen fields, including bibliographical references, find-place, shape and iconographical terms.
In 1992 the Archive began to participate in a European Union project (RAMA) linking the collections of seven museums across Europe via the Internet. This project enabled the Beazley Archive to begin digitising its photographs and drawings. So far, more than 120,000 images have been linked to the textual records, and this enhanced version of the original database is available on the Beazley Archive web site.
Allied to, although not part of, the Beazley Archive web site is cvaonline.org . Published by the Beazley Archive under the aegis of the Union Académique Internationale it consists of an illustrated digital catalogue of 100,000 ancient vases scanned from some 250 out-of-print fascicules of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. This three year project was completed in December 2004.
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Last updated:
9 October, 2008