Web Reference: Art

Web Reference: Art

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Architecture

Costume

History

Art History Resources on the Web ~ Search by time period or geographic region.
Art History Periods and Movements ~ Categories from Yahoo Directory
British Library - Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
Mother of All Art & Art History Links ~ Mega-site from the University of Michigan. Click Research Resources and Image Collections.
Timeline of Art History ~ from the Metropolitan Museum of Ar
Virtual Library Museums Pages ~ a directory of online museum
Web Gallery of Art ~ "A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 15.400 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available."

Museums

Art and Design at the Smithsonian ~ Washington D.C.
Art at the Getty ~ the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Art Institute of Chicago ~ Chicago
The Guggenheim Museums ~ New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin, Las Vegas
The Louvre ~ Paris
The Metropolitan Museum of Art ~ New York
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) ~ New York
Museums Around the World ~ A directory of museums around the world
National Gallery of Art ~ Washington D.C
Smithsonian American Art Museum ~ Washington D.C
Tate Britain ~ "Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art...the entire Tate Collection is available online."
WebMuseum Network ~ Click Famous Artworks to search for art by period, movement, or geographic area.

Painting ~ see also: History, Museums, and Reference

Photography

Reference

Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine

.N. Mellendorf, Librarian. Created: 3/7/06 Last Update: 3/19/08