Research Guides
Need to conduct research on a work of art in the museum's collection? Try starting with one of the library's research guides. Especially targeted to beginning students of art history, these guides will help identify published sources related to works from the MFAH art collections and general art topics.
The research guides listed below are available for download in PDF format.
Arts of Africa, Oceania, & the Americas
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view slideshowIncense Burner (Incensario) Lid [Mesoamerican, Teotihuacan]
Kneeling Woman Nursing a Baby [Mesoamerican, Jalisco]
Antiquities
Coffin of Pedi-Osiris [Egyptian]
Pharaoh Ramesses II Enthroned [Egyptian]
Eagle-Headed Winged Deity [Assyrian]
Fragment of a Grave Relief [Greek]
Grave Stela for a Woman [Greek]
Hattatt Painter - Amphora with Scene from the Iliad [Greek]
Head of Poseidon / Antigonos Doson [Greek]
Painter of the Yale Oinochoe - Red-figure Hydria [Greek]
Syriskos Painter - Red-figure Column Krater [Greek]
Portrait Figure of a Ruler [Roman]
Imperial Portrait of the Emperor Caligula [Roman]
Arts of Asia
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view slideshowStanding Buddha [Thai]
Ritual Vessel (Ding) [Chinese]
Vishnu and his Avatars [Indian]
European Art
Gérard,François-Pascal-Simon - Portrait of Louise-Antoinette with her Children [French]
Master of the Straus Madonna - Virgin and Child [Italian]
Scarsellino - Virgin and Child with Saints [Italian]
Weyden, van der Rogier - The Virgin and Child [Netherlandish]
General Guides
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view image© Judd Foundation. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY, www.vagarights.com
Untitled - Donald Judd
Objects in the Museum's Permanent Collection