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Arts

EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier Database
Academic Search Premier indexes over 160 art related periodicals, many of which are full-text online.

Art History

19th Century Art Worldwide
Current issue of 19th Century Art Worldwide with links to previous issues available.

Abstract Expressionism
Explanations of abstract expressionism and links to topics on the subject.

Archives of American Art - Digital Collections
Search the AAA's online presence for images and oral histories that document the history of the visual arts in America.

Art History Resources on the Web
Art History links provided Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.

Art Images for College Teaching
This "Free-Use" for educational purposes site contains images of art from the ancient world through the 20th Century.

Timeline of Art History - Metropolitan Museum of Art
A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Univ. of Michigan Art & Art History Page
Mother of all Art and Art History Links page.

WebMuseum
Virtual museum offering access to art masterpieces. Site includes both an artist index and a thematic index.

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Artists

ArtCyclopedia
Index to major artists with brief biographies and links to artist's works.

Connecticut College's Rembrandt's Etchings
Bible, Portraits, Genre & Landscapes, Six galleries, 63 prints.

Constable's Great Landscapes
Site includes information about, and images of, John Constable's "Six Foot Paintings." Also included on the site are an eight page gallery guide and a map identifying the settings of the landscapes.

Dale Chihuly-Glass Artist
Chihuly is a leading force in the avant-garde development of glass as a fine art.

Diego Rivera
Virtual museum of Rivera's art (cubist painter and muralist).

Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci
Drawings and links to other Da Vinci sites.

German Expressionists
Themes in German Expressionist prints.

Jasper Johns
American Pop/Abstract Expressionist Painter and Sculptor. Comprehensive chronological survey of more than 225 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures.

Man Ray
Internet site officially authorized by the Man Ray Trust for this American Dada and Surrealist artist.

Mark Rothko
National Gallery of Art's exhibition on this painter who is classified as an abstract expressionist.

Michelangelo
Biography of Michelangelo including images and links.

National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington DC museum dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists.

Rembrandt
Art Institute of Chicago's 2004 exhibition of the subjects to which Rembrandt returned—portraits and self-portraits, everyday life, landscape, the nude—at various stages of his career.

Roy Lichtenstein
Site for the prominent Pop-Artist's foundation. Images, currant and recent exhibits, archives, bibliography, and more.

Toulouse-Lautrec

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Image Collections and Image Search Engines

Art Images for College Teaching
Search for western and non-western art; ancient to 20th century art.

Art Resource
Digital library contains over 100,000 keyword-searchable fine art images from the world's leading sources.

World Art Treasures
Images from over 100,000 slides from the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation.

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Museums & Galleries

Art Institute of Chicago's African American Art
Introduction to over 100 years of noted achievements in painting, sculpture, and printmaking. Ranges chronologically from the Civil War era to the Harlem Renaissance and from the civil-rights struggles following World War II to the contemporary period.

Bas Jaconde (Catalog of museum collections in France)
Over 45,400 thumbnails and downloadable .jpg files of selected fine art, decorative art objects, and other kinds of cultural objects.

Museo di Roma-Rome
Search database for images by artist or time period.

Museum of the American Indian
Online exhibits feature various people groups and art mediums.

National Gallery of Art-Washington D.C.
Take an online tour - choose by school or medium

National Gallery of Canada
Search or browse over 10,000 images from the gallery's collection.

National Gallery - London
Permanent collection ranges from 1200s-1900s.

Rijksmuseum-Amsterdam
Text and images of over 1200 exhibits.

Sister Wendy's American Collection
From the PBS series. Explores six major American museums and selections from their collections.

Smithsonian American Art Museum
America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art. Browse or search digital collection.

State Hermitage Museum-St. Petersburg, Russia
Browse or search digital collection.

Tate Galleries - London
Impressive digital collection and more.

The Louvre-Paris
Browse or search digital collection.

Victoria and Albert Museum
Browse the collections via categories divided by various media. Numerous images and related text can be accessed.

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General

ArtLex - Art Dictionary
Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.

Ceramics Today
Features hundreds of articles and thousands of links to web sites about ceramics and ceramic artists.

Copyright and Art
Information you need to protect yourself from infringing the copyright of an image owner.

World Wide Art Resources
The largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios.

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