Visual Arts: Internet Resources

This database has over 170,000 works of contemporary art. Search by medium, subject matter, price and theme...

From the University of California-Santa Barbara, the art section of the Voice of the Shuttle humanities resource site.

This web site contains over 12,400 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1100 and 1800 supplemented with commentary on their technique and history.

Access digitized art history publications, rare books, and related literature.

The oldest and most widely-circulated art magazine in the world.

Has links to a timeline from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, journals, images and other useful websites.

Excellent guide to art of all periods and countries. Includes links to index sites, pictures, and some textual materials.

A guide to online museums and image archives.

Links to exhibits, university art departments, images and research reports.

Small database of images for use by educators; covers only architecture and sculpture, mainly medieval & ancient.

View the Louisiana State Museum Photograph Collection plus works from the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

These 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers were mostly created before 1923

This index is from the Getty Research Institute will display an artist's preferred name.

More than 32,000 high resolution images from over 151 museums in 40 different countries.

Collection of E-Books about Art History, freely available.

Collection of e-books freely available from the Getty.

The Contemporary Artists Index is a unique resource developed and maintained by the Cleveland Institute of Art's Library staff. Look here for artists, artists groups, photographers, craftspeople, designers, and design firms whose work appears in select publications in the library's collection. Covers over 31,000 artists appearing in more than 1,800 exhibition catalogs and art publications.

Select "Imagebase" to view over 70,000 images from the the museum's collections. Includes collections in African and Japanese art

This museum describes itself as the premiere visual arts museum in the Western United States. Permanent exhibits are shown ranging from decorative to ancient and Islamic art.

In existence 1870, the Metropolitan Museum in New York City has a collection that now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the world ancient through modern times. According to this site, about 3,500 objects are reproduced online as well as its entire Department of European Paintings.

Online "tours" and images of selected parts of the museum's collection.

Includes a search interface over 80,000 portrait records

Access to the museums, libraries, archives, and research centers.

This Washington, D.C. museum is dedicated to furthering the understanding of mankind's creative achievements in the textile arts. In addition to information about exhibitions, there is a section dealing with the care and display of textiles.

This site from one of world-renowned collections of 20th century art has online exhibits and a link to the Art Museum Image Consortium with over 50,000 searchable online images.

This site of this famous Paris museum of impressionism located in a renovated railroad station has layouts of each floor, a panoramic view of its artworks, and a link to the Louvre as well as other notable museums.

Serving two million visitors a year as the national collection of British art since 1500, this site gives the opportunity to see 8,000 works of art in its holdings

This attractive online exhibit explores early American painters and their works. The site features biographies of 20 artists and detailed information on 53 works, which also include numerous comparative images from other collections. Visitors may browse the collection via an interactive timeline or by artist, genre, or place of origin.

Presenting the art and science of albumen printing, this site brings together 19th century technical instruction, contemporary research, an online forum for conservation treatment and a wealth of images.

A virtual tour of a museum that has been on the Internet since 1996 displaying the private collection of William B. Becker with works dating from 1836 to the end of World War II.

Exhibits of student art, a sampling of its images by over 1,000 photographers, the world's largest collection of vintage stereographs and photography done with digital scanners is included as well as pictures of some of its 10,000 cameras.

This San Diego Museum's exhibit shows many of Toulouse-Lautrec's famous posters