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Special or Current Topics
- Free Expression Policy Project
- This group describes itself as "a think tank on artistic and intellectual freedom." The website has updates, reports and analyses on the legal and political aspects of art censorship
- The Lost Art Internet Database
- The official German website "registers cultural objects which as a result of persecution under the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War were relocated, moved or seized, especially from Jewish owners."
Pathfinders & Gateways
- The Librarians' Index to the Internet
- This is one of the best starting places to for web-based research. In contrast to a search engine's database, the websites listed here are selected for their quality and are cataloged with a standard set of terms. You can search for specific words, or browse through this site's subject categories.
- Art History Resources on the Web
- This is a very large, well-organized pathfinder page. It is arranged by time period as well as by topic
- Index of Selected Art Resources on the World Wide Web
- A large pathfinder page organized by topic
- Art Links
- This is good selective list mostly of European Art websites. It is organized chronologically a covers everything from Prehistory through the 20th century.
- Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
- This extensive page is organized into the following categories: Art History Departments; Research Resources; Resources for Visual Collections; Image Collections and Online Art; Online Exhibitions; Fine Art Schools and Departments; Art Museums; Textual and Linguistic Resources; New Media Art and Resources. It is sponsored by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.
- ADAM
- The gateway to art, design, architecture & media information on the Internet--Though it hasn't been updated in a couple of years, this is still a good site. It's unusual in that the websites it contains are selected and cataloged according to library cataloging rules.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Bibliographies
- ArtLex Art Dictionary
- An online dictionary for art and art history. Many definitions have images attached
- Words of Art
- A Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts
- Researching Your Art Object
- This site contains a bibliographic how-to guide to identifying and learning about specific works of art
- International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles, and Worlds Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography
- This is a huge, selective bibliography of scholarly work on Worlds Fairs (published in 2000). It contains approximately 1,200 citations. It also includes links to related websites
- Census of Dissertations in Medieval Art
- A searchable list of dissertations completed in the past three decades hosted by the International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA)
Research Institutions & Professional Organizations
- International Directory of Art Libraries
- This is a searchable database maintained by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Section of Art Libraries
- College Art Association
- The professional society for academic art historians
- Society of Architectural Historians
- This site includes details about the Society's activities; information about graduate programs in Architectural History; and the tables of contents of its publications
- International Dada Archive
- This site includes the International Online Bibliography of Dada, and related resources. Based at the University of Iowa Libraries
- The American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
- This is a good starting place to learn about the practice and profession of art conservation
- Career Alternatives for Art Historians
- This web page provides advice about possible careers for students with degrees in Art History
- The International Center for Medieval Art
- This site includes information on this organization's publications; an online index to dissertations on Medieval Art; and a pathfinder to medieval art websites
- National Art Library [Victoria and Albert Museum]
- This site has specialized bibliographies for a number of art history topics. It also includes the library's catalog; information on its archival collections; and more
- Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
- This is the entry point to conduct research with the Smithsonian's vast collections
- Getty Research Institute: Conducting Research
- The Getty Museum's research site provides access to several important research tools, including its Provenance Index and its Union List of Artists Names
Art by Period
- Art History Resources on the Web
- This is a very large, well-organized pathfinder page organized by time period as well as by region. It's an excellent place to start for all periods of Art History
- Bradshaw Foundation
- A good starting point for Prehistoric Rock Art
- Images of Women in Ancient Art
- This is a substantitive site that includes scholarly discussion of images and bibliographies in addition to pictures
- The International Center for Medieval Art
- This site includes information on this organization's publications; an online index to dissertations on Medieval Art; and a pathfinder to medieval art websites
- Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
- An extensive, well organized set of photographs of Churches and other Medieval structures in England and France
- Eighteenth Century Resources-Art
- A good pathfinder page, divided by topic
- 19th and 20th Century Art Links
- A good pathfinder
- The Victorian Web: Arts in Victorian Britain
- An very rich site discussing many aspects of Victorian Art and Culture. It includes images and bibliographies, too
- International Dada Archive
- This site includes the International Online Bibliography of Dada, and related resources. Based at the University of Iowa Libraries
Non-Western Art
- Africa: South of the Sahara: African Art
- This pathfinder page at Stanford University is a good starting place to find African art resources on the Web
- LANIC: Art
- The Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) is my favorite entry point for Latin American materials on the Web. Here is LANIC's list of Art sites
- Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library: Links to Related Sites
- A large, well organized site with emphasis on Art History
- Kyoto National Museum
- An especially rich site including an online image catalog from its collections and a well-selected list of related websites
- Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization
- "(IAAO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information on arts and architecture." This Web site has articles and bibliographies as well as links to other online resources
- Native Music and Arts Organizations and Individuals - Singers, Drums, Artists, Performers, Celebrities, Actors, Actresses, Storytellers, Authors, Activists
- This is the Music and Art section of Lisa Mitten's "Native American Sites" Web page, one of the first and best online pathfinders for Native American Web sites
Artists
- The Union List of Artists Names(ULAN)
- This growing list is one of a series of "vocabularies" developed by the Getty Vocabulary Program. It provides important contextual information on the artists listed
- World Wide Art Resources
- This is a gateway site for many aspects of the art trade, including information on contemporary artists as well as news on current exhibitions
- AskArt
- This site includes an extensive alphabetical list of American Artists of all periods. Entries may include brief biographies and bibliographies, as well as information on museum holdings, and recent sale prices. Much of this is free, more is available to subscribers
- Artcyclopedia
- This searchable database provides "references to sites on the World Wide Web where artists' works can be viewed online." It further limits itself to artists whose work is shown in museums with an emphasis on twentieth century painting and sculpture. In addition to images it provides links to biographical, bibliographical and sales information. However, some of that material is available by subscription only
- Gallery of Visual Artists
- This is an list of working artists organized alphabetically, or by style, medium or subject. It is part of the ArtNetwork website
- Art Marketplace
- World Wide Art Resources--This is a gateway site for many aspects of the art trade, including information on contemporary artists as well as news on current exhibitions
- ArtNetwork
- This site showcases many working artists. It also serves as a gateway to useful resources on the business side of art for artists
- The Art Newspaper
- This is an online newspaper covering the latest from the international art world
- Artnet.com
- This company describes itself as "the place to buy, sell and research fine art online." Its website provides news; lists of artists; directories of galleries, and museums; auction prices; and a range of resources for researching individual artists. Some of its services are free, others are by individual subscription only
Museums
- Artnet.com
- There are links from here to directories of international fine arts galleries and museums
- Virtual Library Museums Pages
- This is a huge list of all types of museums with a web presence. Organized by country
- Artcyclopedia
- Art Museums Worldwide. A comprehensive list of fine arts museums with a web presence. Organized by state (within US) or country
- Artonline
- This Italian site seeks to guide you to the most important current exhibits in Museums worldwide. Its links are a good source of images and basic biographical information
- JOCONDE
- Sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, this is a union catalog of French Art Museums. Currently it contains records for 138,000 items held by 84 museums. It includes about 24,000 images
Art Image Collections
- Prints and Photographs Online Catalog of the Library of Congress
- This catalog covers part of the rich and varied collection held by the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division.Specifically, it includes "descriptions of selected single images cataloged since 1984 and groups of images cataloged since 1986." Many entries include digitized images
- Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
- This is a non-profit project to make art images available for teaching purposes. It follows the standard western art survey with sections on the following periods: Ancient; Medieval; Renaissance and Baroque; 18th-20th Century. It also contains images of PreContact Meso- and North American art
- The Web Gallery of Art
- "The Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800."
- JOCONDE
- Sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, this is a union catalog of French Art Museums. Currently it contains records for 138,00 items held by 84 museums. It includes about 24,000 images
- The Vatican Museum
- Contains images and information about the treasures collected in or created for the Vatican over the centuries. It ranges from Etruscan to Modern Religious Art
- Time-Life Pictures
- One of the photographic collections maintained by Getty Images. Parts of this site are free, others are available for a fee
- Getty Images
- This is a commercial site hosting several databases with limited free access. images range from photographs of today's celebrity news to archival film