Our Libraries
Getty Library and Hans Belting Library
Opening Hours Restrictions
8.7. – 13.9. Getty Library closed
12.8. – 16.8. also the Hans Belting Library closed
Until September 13, the Hans Belting Library will be open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm,
and only by prior email appointment with the service.
Please email the service at least one day in advance! Thank you.
Service in the department's libraries in July and August
Central Library
The study rooms of the Central Library will be closed during the holidays. (Due to renovation of sanitary facilities)
However, books will be available for borrowing and will be:
June 17-July 31 and September 9-15.
Monday-Wednesday 9:00-13:00
Thursday 12:00-16:00
Friday, Saturday, Sunday closed
1 August to 8 September
Central Library closed
The online catalogue includes all books and exhibition and auction catalogues in the library, as well as all volumes of journals acquired after 1995. Only half of the journals from before that year are in the catalogue; the remaining issues (and all theses) are still searchable in the ticketed catalogue.
Library Service: If you have any questions, contact the librarian.
Location
The Departmental library is housed in two reading rooms: the Getty Library and the Hans Belting Library. Both reading rooms are located in the Faculty of Arts building on Veveří 28.
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The Department has one of the largest art history libraries in central Europe,
with some 25,000 scholarly monographs, exhibition and auction catalogues and 250 journal subscriptions. In addition to continuous acquisition of new literature, supported by the Getty Foundation, the department has extensive holdings of historic material, thanks to private donations and institutional transfers. Extensive parts of the art history library of the former German University in Prague were moved to Brno following its closure in 1945. The Department library also has a notable collection of historic prints acquired from the Matice Moravská and significant and classic theoretical works on architecture (J. Barozzi da Vignola, Pierre Le Muet, Andrea Palladio, Francesco Muttoni, Gérard de Lairesse, Andrea Pozzo), as well as the collected works of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and a set of graphic illustrations for the work of J. B. Seroux d´Agincourt.
Doctoral, diploma and bachelor theses defended by students of art history at Masaryk University are also an integral part of the library. These are supplemented by access to electronic databases, such as ProQuest, Web of Science and EBSCO, and full-text electronic journal archives, such as JStor, CEEOL, Oxford Journals Online, SpringerLINK, and Wiley Online Library.
Staff and students are also entitled to access the holdings of the Faculty of Arts Central Library.
The library is primarily for staff and students of the Faculty of Arts. Its collections, however, are also open to the entire academic community and to anyone from the general public who is interested on a reference only basis.