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Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen / Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie

Radboud University Nijmegen / Centre of Art-historical Documentation

Size 90,000 slides, 250,000 photographs; microforms, videos
Character and emphasis The Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie is created by merging the slide and the photographs departments. Its main areas of collecting are classical archaeology, early Christian art, medieval art, miniatures, Christian architecture and art in Germany and Italy.

Special collections

• Brom Collection: the photographs and reproductions archives of the precious metals workshop of the Brom family, active in Utrecht 1856-1961
• Sibbelee Collection: over 15.000 photographs made between ca. 1940 and 1987 by the Dutch photographer Hans Sibbelee. He worked for Prof. F. van der Meer, and focussed on European architecture and sculpture.
• The Verspaandonk Collection: a collection photographs of misericordes and other details of choir stalls in Western Europe by J. Verspaandonk
• 2,000 prints
• The Courtauld Institute Illustration Archives: reproductions of mediaeval architecture
• Several collections on Christian iconography: Gerlach Archives, Snijders Archives, Hönes Collection
• The Decimal Index of the Lower Countries (DIAL): a collection of black-and-white reproductions of Netherlandish art, published by the RKD
• Documentation archives on microfiche: the Marburger Index, the Index Photographique de l'Art en France, the Schweiz Index, the Österreich Index, the Spanien und Portugal Index, the Alinari Photo Archives, the Villani-Archives

Catalogues

• Automated catalogue containing the portraits of all the collections
• Automated catalogue containing over 7000 pilgrimsbadges
• Automated catalogue containing over 6000 photographs by Hans Sibbelee
• Automated catalogue containing over 55.000 slides, part of the reproductions, and all prints (ODILON-database)
• Automated catalogue of the Alinari Collection is under construction

Publications

• N. Coppes, Oorlogssporen. Nijmeegse kunsthistorische cahiers, 2000
• N. Coppes, China zonder schaduw: Hans Sibbelee in de Volksrepubliek. Nijmeegse kunsthistorische cahiers, 2001