Internet Resources for Art & Art History
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Timeline of Art History (TOAH) courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm)
Art History via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History)
Art Periods and Movements via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements)
The Art History Browser (www.plinia.net/browser/browser2.html)
Art History Research Centre (AHRC) (www.harmsen.net/ahrc)
Art History: Resources on the Web by Dr. Christopher Whitcombe (witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page University of Michigan (www.art-design.umich.edu/mother)
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Oxford Art Online (formerly Grove Art Online) authentication required for off-campus access (libguides.wcsu.edu/databases)
ArtCyclopedia (www.artcyclopedia.com)
ArtLex: Art Dictionary (www.artlex.com)
The Dictionary of Art Historians by Lee Sorensen (www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org)
The Getty Provenance Index from the J. Paul Getty Museum (www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/provenance_index)
Timeline of Art History (TOAH) courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm)
Art Project powered by Google (www.googleartproject.com)
Art History Resources on the Web by Christopher Witcombe (witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) by Allan T. Kohl, University of Minnesota (www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html)
Art Renewal Center (ARC) Museum (www.artrenewal.org/pages/search.php)
Art Resource registration required (www.artres.com/c/htm/Home.aspx)
ArtCyclopedia (www.artcyclopedia.com)
ArtServe courtesy of the Australian National University (rubens.anu.edu.au)
British Museum: Collection Database Search (www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database.aspx)
Bridgeman Art Library authentication required for off-campus access (libguides.wcsu.edu/databases)
Explore Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/)
Google Image Search enter name of artist and/or title of work (images.google.com)
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. (www.loc.gov/pictures/)
NYPL Digital Gallery: Arts & Literature New York Public Library (digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=arts)
Visual Information Access Harvard University Library (via.lib.harvard.edu/via/deliver/collections?_collection=via)
WebMuseum, Paris: Famous Artworks (www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint)
Web Gallery of Art by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx(www.wga.hu)
World Art Treasures Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation (www.bergerfoundation.ch)
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Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc tour prehistoric cave art in France (www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en)
Harlem Hospital WPA Murals courtesy of Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/wpa/index.html)
New Deal Art During the Great Depression WPA murals and more (www.wpamurals.com)
Turning the Pages: Leonardo's Notebook British Library - takes time to load (www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/leonardo_broadband.htm)
Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (vangoghletters.org/vg)
Artists: Masters via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Artists/Masters)
National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) (www.nmwa.org)
Painters by Name in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_painters)
WebMuseum: Artist Index (www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth)
Artnet.com auctions, galleries, prices, and more (www.artnet.com")
Art & Design in the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.html)
AskART: The American Artists Bluebook (www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx)
Arts by Region via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/By_Region)
African Art at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Africa)
Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Metropolitcan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=7)
Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institutions (artarchives.si.edu)
Art in Ancient Greece in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Ancient_Greece)
Art of the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=8)
Asian Art at the Metroplitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Asia)
Asian Arts (www.asianart.com/index.html)
Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=13)
Classical Art Research Centre, the Beazley Archive, University of Oxford (www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/index.htm)
Discovering Buddhist Art Seattle Art Museum (www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibit/interactives/buddhism/enter.asp#)
Egyptian Art at the Metropolitcan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=14)
European Art at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Europe)
Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=20)
Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=Islamic)
Islamic Arts and Architecture (www.islamicart.com)
Japanese Art (www.japaneseart.org)
Oceanic/Pacific Art at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=24)
Prehistoric Art at the Metroplitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?i=25)
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The American Museum of Photography (www.photographymuseum.com)
Photography at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_ph.htm)
Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/index.html)
Photographers in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographers)
Photography Homepages (www.photographyhomepages.com)
Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/exploreArt?typ=2033125)
Photo Study Collection and Database Getty Museum, Los Angeles (www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/photo_study_collection)
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog at the Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/pictures)
Smithsonian Photography Initiative (www.spi.si.edu)
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Sculpture in Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Sculpture)
Sculptors in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sculptors)
International Directory of Sculpture Parks (www.artnut.com/intl.html)
The Calder Foundation (www.calder.org)
The Noguchi Museum Long Island City, NY (www.noguchi.org)
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/european_sculpture_and_decorative_arts)
Architects in Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_architects)
Architecture.com Royal Institute of British Architects (www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Home.html)
Cities and Buildings Database University of Washington Libraries (content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html)
Digital Archive of Architecture Prof. Jeffery Howe, Boston College (www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch)
The Great Buildings Collection with models (www.greatbuildings.com)
Structurae (en.structurae.de/index.cfm)
Traditional Japanese Architecture (academic.csuohio.edu/makelaa/lectures/architecture/index.html)
Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home (www.pem.org/yinyutang)
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American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum (www.metmuseum.org/works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=1)
The Decorative Arts Trust (www.decorativeartstrust.org)
Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library (www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/introduction.asp)
Database of Bookbindings at the British Library (www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings)
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture University of Wisconsin-Madison (decorativearts.library.wisc.edu)
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London (www.vam.ac.uk/index.html)
Ceramics Today (www.ceramicstoday.com)
Chinese Ceramics Pacific Asia Museum (www.pacificasiamuseum.org/chineseceramics)
Clay Art Web Guide by Vicki Hardin (vickihardin.com/links/index.htm)
e-Yakimono (www.e-yakimoto.net)
Art Museums, Galleries, and Centers via Yahoo! (dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Museums__Galleries__and_Centers)
Art Museum Network (AMN) (www.amn.org)
Art Institute of Chicago (www.artic.edu)
Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C. (www.museum.oas.org)
Brooklyn Museum (www.brooklynmuseum.org)
Cleveland Museum of Art (www.clevelandart.org)
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. (www.corcoran.org)
Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian/Washington, D.C. (www.asia.si.edu/collections/default.htm)
Frick Collection & Frick Art Reference Library in Manhattan (www.frick.org)
Guggenheim Museum, New York (www.guggenheim.org/new-york)
Harvard University Art Museum Cambridge, Massachusetts (www.harvardartmuseum.org)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (hirshhorn.si.edu)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (www.gardnermuseum.org)
Jewish Museum, New York (www.jewishmuseum.org)
Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan (www.metmuseum.org)
Morgan Library and Museum (www.themorgan.org/home.asp)
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan (www.moma.org)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (www.mfa.org)
National Gallery of Art - Collection in Washington D.C. (www.nga.gov/collection)
National Museum of the American Indian in New York and Washington D.C., Smithsonian (www.nmai.si.edu)
National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian, Washington D.C. (www.npg.si.edu)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (www.philamuseum.org)
Phillips Collection Washington D.C. (www.phillipscollection.org)
Princeton University Art Museum (www.princetonartmuseum.org)
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. (americanart.si.edu)
Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford (www.wadsworthatheneum.org)
Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan (www.whitney.org)
Yale Center for British Art in New Haven (ycba.yale.edu/index.asp)
Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven (artgallery.yale.edu)
The British Museum in London (www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk)
Chateau de Versailles in France (en.chateauversailles.fr/homepage)
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao in Spain (www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/?idioma=en)
Louvre in Paris (www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp)
Musée d'Orsay in Paris (www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html)
Museo del Prado in Madrid (www.museodelprado.es/en/)
Museu Picasso in Barcelona (www.museupicasso.bcn.es/en)
National Gallery, London (www.nationalgallery.org.uk)
National Portrait Gallery in London (www.npg.org.uk)
Tate Gallery in London (www.tate.org.uk)
Uffizi Gallery in Florence (www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi)
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (www.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp)
Vatican Museums in Rome (mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
Victoria & Albert Museum in London (www.vam.ac.uk)
College Art Association (CAA) publications (www.collegeart.org/publications)
American Art journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (www.journals.uchicago.edu/AmArt/journal)
Artdaily.com online art newspaper (www.artdaily.com/index.asp)
Illustration Magazine (www.illustration-magazine.com)
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (www.19thc-artworldwide.org)
Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS) (www.arlisna.org)
Asslociation of Art Historians (AAH) (www.aah.org.uk)
College Art Association (CAA) (www.collegeart.org)
International Directory of Art Libraries IFLA (artlibrary.vassar.edu/ifla-idal)
National Art Education Association (NAEA) (www.arteducators.org/olc/pub/NAEA/research/research_page_16.html)
National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) (nasad.arts-accredit.org)
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) (arts.endow.gov)
Society of Illustrators (www.societyillustrators.org)
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Please send your comments to Joan Reitz, Haas Instruction Librarian, Western Connecticut State University.
reitzj@wcsu.edu
Last updated on August 17, 2011.