Digital Library of Hispanic Art History

The Digital Library of Hispanic Art History (BDHAH) reaches 1000 records

BDHAH was born with the intention of gathering all the printed materials related to the arts and Spanish heritage published at the beginning of the 20th century. This is 12 years old; We have now reached 1,000 records.

22/06/2020

The Digital Library of Hispanic Art History (BDHAH) is a portal run by the UAB Department of Art History and Music and coordinated and carried out by the Humanities Library. Its objective is to disseminate and facilitate access to the entire Hispanic artistic historiography published during the 19th and early 20th centuries, although it also gathers artistic literature from the 17th and 18th centuries, of very diverse provenance.

The project revolves around two axes:

On the one hand, we have everything that the UAB has digitized (sometimes, with the granting of aid from the Ministry of Culture; on others, with the will and work of the Department and Library) and that is stored in the DDD . Here, the material is found divided into a collection of books (https://ddd.uab.cat/collection/bdhah) and another of journals (https://ddd.uab.cat/collection/bdhahrev). Both collections have spectacular consultation and download figures, each exceeding a million queries and almost the same number of downloads.

These documents come from the Humanities Library and the UAB Reserve Collection, in addition to other institutions, which have collaborated by transferring collections for their digitization. We highlight the Biblioteca del Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya i l’Institut Amatller d’Art Hispànic.

With a clear objective of completeness, monographs and periodicals that are already in other digital repositories have also been incorporated into the project. These documents, together with what we find in the DDD, are accessible on the BDHAH website.

Documentation has been gathered from very diverse institutions, catalan and from the rest of the state, such as the Arxiu Històric de la Ciutat de Barcelona, ​​l'Ateneu Barcelonès, the Víctor Balaguer Library-Museum, public libraries from different provinces (Jaén, Ávila, Cáceres, Madrid, Mallorca, etc.), Biblioteca Valenciana, Biblioteca Virtual de Andalucía, l'ETSAB (UPC), the Harvard Library, Princeton University or the Student Residence. The libraries where more material has been found to incorporate into the BDHAH have been those of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Sevilla, Universitat de Barcelona, ​​Biblioteca de Catalunya, Biblioteca Nacional de España and the Prado Museum Library.

Currently, we have passed the 1,000 records: albums, treatises, exhibition catalogs, conferences, journals. And we continue.

We recommend reading the article “La continuïtat d'un projecte” that Professor Bonaventura Bassegoda has written for the journal "Biblioteca Informacions".