Definition:

Citations to sources of textual information related to the work of art or architecture being described, including published bibliographic materials, Web sites, archival documents, unpublished manuscripts, and references to verbal opinions expressed by scholars or subject experts.

May contain the name of a related textual reference and any type of unique identifier that text assigns to a Work or Collection that is independent of any repository. Examples include exhibition and catalog raisonné numbers, or identification numbers assigned to works of art in the scholarly literature that are commonly included in scholarly discussion to further identify a work, such as Bartsch or Beazley numbers.

Wikicatalog Use:

VRA Core 4: <source> <textref>

CCO: No direct equivalent. Covered in the discussion of each element. 

CDWA: Related Textual References-Work Cited or Illustrated; Related Textual References-Object/Work Number

Dublin Core:

Examples:

Bartrum, Giulia, Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy, London: British Museum Press, 2002

CAAcademyofSciences

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996)

Bartsch 133

Lowenthal, Anne W., "Claesz, Pieter," accessed 3 March 2005