Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
Digital Librarian is maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson a librarian in Cortland, New York

Art

Art Images

There are many resources for locating art on the Web. Using Google Image Search is probably the quickest way to locate art, but often the images are too small or the links to the original sources are dead. Most search engines offer tools to find images. Many museums offer searchable databases and have digitized much of their collections. Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web has links to Museums & Galleries as does Jonathan Bowen in his Virtual Library museums pages (part of the WWW Virtual Library).
The ImageBase of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has one of the largest free database of images on the Web with over 82,000 objects (including 3,000 Japanese prints). Other museums with large digitized collections include the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (more than 5,600 images - be sure to check the images only box), the Metropolitan Museum in New York (over 6,500 images), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (over 30,000 images), the Getty in Los Angeles (which also has a Media Gallery), the Louvre: Atlas

(select Seulement les œuvres illustrées and click on Télécharger), the Tate Gallery in London (65,000 images), the National Gallery of Canada (over 10,000 images in Cybermuse), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (with almost 24,000 objects in its Images Online), the British Museum's Compass database (5,000 objects), the State Hermitage Museum Digital Collection in St. Petersburg and London's National Portrait Gallery (over 37,759 images).
Though it is a subscription database, the AMICO Library is searchable and provides thumbnails of over 100,000 works of art owned by members of the Art Museum Image Consortium. Other useful resources include the Perseus Digital Library (search for architecture), Archnet, ArtServe at the Australian National University, Artist Index, Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures, the Art Renewal Center, and Collage Portal. The Agence photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux is a searchable database of art owned by selected French museums with over 100,000 color images and over 500,000 black & white images. ART[image] is a joint digitization project of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal.
Commercial resources include the Artcyclopedia which has indexed 1200 art sites, and offers more than 32,000 links directly to an estimated 100,000 works by over 7,500 artists, CGFA--A Virtual Art Museum, Web Gallery of Art, a database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over over 13,500 reproductions, Mark Harden's Artchive, Nicolas Pioch's WebMuseum with Famous Paintings Collection.

Adaweb - Manhattan-based art site was "established in the early spring of 1995 with the goal to provide contemporary artists (visual artists, as well as composers, movie directors, architects, choreographers, etc), a station from which they can engage in a dialogue with users of the Internet." (The project ended in March 1998 but the archives still exist.) Includes Stir-Fry: A Video Curator's Dispatches from China.
Africa South of the Sahara: Art - Annotated subject directory maintained by Karen Fung, Africa Collection, Hoover Library, Stanford University. (There's also a section for South Africa.)
Agence photographique de la Réunion des musées nationaux: images d'oeuvres d'art - Images of objects in French national museums. A search, for example, for Corot retrieves 269 images.
Albumen Photographs: History, Science and Preservation - 19th century primary source materials, contemporary research, a gallery, and video of albumen print manufacture. (See Press Release.)
Alliance of Artists Communities - Lists communities by region and by artistic category.
American Association of Museums - You can search for Accredited Museums, or view a list organized by state and by name.
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) - You can search the member directory for a designer.
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library - Library of Congress site has a Collection Finder organized by topic, format, time and place. There are sections for Art and Architecture and Photos and Prints.
American Museum of Photography - Drawn from the collection of broadcast journalist and writer William B. Becker. The Research Center has information on preserving and protecting photographs.
American Masters - PBS series of "award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists." There is a Masters List A-Z.
Archives and Museum Infomatics - With information on Conferences.
Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution. "Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America. The Archives recently replaced microfilm with digitization to foster the widest accessibility to its collections and oral history interviews." Worthy of note:
Search Images
Finding Aids
Digital Collections
Collections Online Downtown Gallery (1824-1974), Romare Bearden, Holger Cahill (1910-1993), Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell , Arthur And Helen Torr Dove, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Olive Rush, and Grant Wood. Walter Pach (1883-1980),
Jervis McEntee's Diaries
Oral History Interviews of American artists and architects, some with transcripts: Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Peggy Bacon, William Thon, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg and Philip Guston.
Online Exhibitions: Visual Thinking: Sketchbooks from the Archives of American Art, Getting the Picture: the Art of the Illustrated Letter, Selections from the Fairfield Porter Papers and The American Indian Observed: Selected Sketches and Documents from the Collections of the Archives of American Art. Among the online publications are: Preliminary Guide to Craft-Related Collections (2001), Guide to the Papers of African American Artists, and Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists (2000).

Armory Show - New York
Art and Craft Shows - Searchable database of arts and crafts events.
Art Basel Miami Beach - Annual art and design fair, sister event of Art Basel in Switzerland
Art and Architecture - 40,000 images of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of architecture and sculpture from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Art Business - Alan Bamberger
Art Daily
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA Online) - With information on Member Galleries.
Art Dealers Association of Canada (ADAC) - Allows you to search by gallery or artist,
Art Entertainment Network - Online companion to the Walker Art Center's show, Let's Entertain. "This exhibition, featuring works by more than 80 artists, exposes the contradictions, illusions, and utopian possibilities of our entertainment-driven, consumer society."
Art Guide: the Art Lover's Guide to Britain and Ireland - Searchable database is organized by artist, museum, and location.
Art Historians' Guide to the Movies - Craig Eliason
Art History Resources on the Web - Chris Witcombe, an art history professor at Sweet Briar College, has developed this extensive, cleanly arranged subject directory.
ART[image] - Joint digitization project of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. For example, the database contains Québec landscapes by Henri Beau, Stanley Cosgrove, Allan Edson, Clarence Gagnon, Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Joseph-Charles Franchère (Sainte-Agathe), Daniel Charles Grose, James Busick Hance, Edwin Headley Holgate, Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, Alfred Pellan, Goodridge Roberts, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté, and John B. Wilkinson.
Art Images for College Teaching
Art in Context - "Catalogues and presents information added by curators, dealers, artists, writers and others from around the world...providing information about over 11 thousand artists and where to find their work."
Art Index: A preliminary guide to art and design subject gateways on the World Wide Web - Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
Art Institute of Chicago
ArtLibraries.net: Virtual Catalogue for Art History - Search 6 million records from 20 specialist art libraries throughout Europe.
Art Libraries Society of North America
Art Libraries Society UK & Ireland - Access is provided to News-Sheet, "bi-monthly publication full of the latest news about activities, events, publications and colleagues."
Art Loss Register
Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) - "Licensed digital educational resource available under subscription to universities and colleges, public libraries, elementary and secondary schools, and museums". Provides free access to a searchable Thumbnail Catalogue which has 65,000 works.
Art Museum Network - "Official website for the largest art museums in North America."
Art Newspaper - International art news
Art on the Web - Jeffery Howe of Boston College's Fine Arts Department, has collected over 1,200 links to art and architecture resources on the Internet
Art Research Resources - Prepared by Queens College librarians Suzanna Simor and Alexandra de Luise to complement introductory art survey courses.
Art Sales Index - Useful graphs and charts or art sales, top selling artists by volume (Picasso, Warhol, Chagall, Rembrandt, Miro), top auction houses (Sotheby's New York, Christie's New York, Sotheby's London, Christies London, Phillips New York, Bonhams London), auction season statistics by country,
Art Students League of New York
Art to the People - Dutch site features work by five artists: Walter Crane, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Albert Hahn, Frans Masereel and Gerd Arntz. This site is the digital version of an exhibition that was held in the National Trades Union Museum in Amsterdam, organized by the International Institute of Social History which has several other online exhibitions.
Artcyclopedia - Searchable database of over 7,000 artists, browsable by movement, medium, subject and nationality.
arthistoricum.net - Includes full-text of Kunstform back to 2001.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Freer Gallery of Art Library, one of the finest Asian art libraries in the United States, has a searchable online catalog.
Artifact: Best of the Web in the Arts and Creative Industries
Artists' Websites:
Robert Smithson - 1938-1973
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art - Michael Delahunt provides "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."
(Art)n Laboratory: Virtual Photography - "Woman owned media lab of artists who use new technology to explore the future of photography and sculpture with computer graphics and virtual reality. The group is famous for its extensive portfolio in science and art, where drugs and human body studies are the new celebrities and iconic pop culture metaphors."
ArtMuseumNet - Intel's Internet-based art museum experience
ArtNet - A rich resource for art and antiques. (See their Site Index.) There is an Artist Index. The weekly ArtNet Magazine offers news & reviews, with archives back to 1996. The Galleries database is searchable by gallery name, artist name, gallery specialty, location, and furniture or design. Artnet People has lots of photographs (Robin Cembalest, Artnews editor; Benjamin Buchloh, Art historian; Dakota Jackson, furniture designer) with an archives going back to 1996.
ARTnews Magazine - In their summer issue they publish an annual list of the world's 200 top art collectors.
ArtPrice.com - Most of the material is available to subscribers only.
ArtSource - Mary Molinaro, a librarian at the University of Kentucky Libraries, maintains this selective guide to Internet art resources.
Arts Wire: Online Communications for the Arts - With News updates news on social, economic, philosophical, and political issues affecting the arts and culture.
ArtsConnectEd - 12,000 works of art and 1,000 audio and video files from the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Arts Council England - "National development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery." The Arts Council Collection is searchable by artist and by work.
ArtsEdNet - Getty Education Institute for the Arts site "focuses on helping arts educators, general classroom teachers using the arts in their curriculum, museum educators, and university faculty involved in the arts"
Asia Society - New York.
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Asianart.com - "On-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia."
AskArt "Resource for information about 52,000 American artists." If you look for the entry on Fairfield Porter, for example, you'll find examples of his work, lists of books and articles about him, and biographical information. To find out more you'll have to become a subscriber.
Association of Online Appraisers (AOA) - Search for appraisers by name or specialty
Association of Art Museum Directors
Austrian Museum of Applied Arts (Österreichischen Museums für angewandte Kunst) - Wein. The Design Info Pool (DIP) contains information on 800 Austrian contemporary designers (with images).
Axis - Database of visual artists currently features 3,300 artists and makers and over 12,500 artwork images.
Bauhaus-archiv museum für gestaltung - Berlin museum devoted to the architecture, design and art of the Bauhaus period (1919-1933). Also available in English.
BBC Art Index Page
Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive
Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon - View over 12,000 images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance. From home page select Collections numérisées, then connexion à la base ENLUMINURES. A title search (Titre du livre) for Livre d'heures, for example, will retrieve over 1400 results. There is also a list of Expositions virtuelles.
Bildarchiv zur Kunst und Architektur in Deutschland - German art and architecture database provides access to over 620,000 photographs. (In German, but using Alta Vista Translation will help with navigation. Click on Künstler to search by artist, Orte to search by place. Click on Suche, then, in Dokumente Aus select Marburg, Foto Marburg digitale diathek from the pull-down menu and click on the Galerie button at the bottom of the page. This will retrieve over 4,500 images.)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur des Bildarchivs Foto Marburg
Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz - "Photo agency of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with approximately 12 million images covering the themes Fine Arts, Culture and History."
Biographies - Art-related biographical resources include Getty Union List of Artist Names, Getty Research Library Catalog - includes over 10,000 auction catalogs, Getty Provenance Index Database (1550 - 1840), Dictionary of Art Historians: a Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art, Archives of American Art Oral History Interviews, Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index, Photographic Portraits of American Artists from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection and the Library of Congress Authorities.
Bonhams & Butterfields - Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers

British Library
Manuscript Catalog offers a single means of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts covering accessions from 1753 to the present day. A descriptions search for William Morris, for example, retrieves 148 results.
Guide to Sale Catalogues in the British Library. - For additional information see The William Dyce and Edward Machell Cox collections of art sale catalogues in the British Library, a transcript of a lecture at the British Library by Chris Michaelides on 18 January 2005.
National Sound Archive - "One of the largest sound archives in the world." You can search the Sound Archive catalogue. There is a lengthy description of an interview with art historian Norbert Lynton, (1927 - ) conducted by Monica Petzal in 2004 consisting of 17 sixty-minute tapes. This is one of over 100 interviews in the Artist Lives series and part of the larger National Life Story Collection "a joint NLSC/ Tate Archive project, begun in 1990. The aim of the project is to record a series of life story interviews with British artists and sculptors, allowing them a forum in which their work and lives can be documented in their own words, for posterity." Other art-related interviews with extensive catalog descriptions include: Norman Adams (1927- ), Diana Armfield (1920 - ), Sandra Blow (1925 - ), Ralph Brown (1928 - ), Rosemary Butler (1930 - ), Bernard Arthur Ruskin Carter (1909- ), Sebastian Carter (1941 - ), Robert Clatworthy (1928 - ), Bernard Cohen (1933 - ), Peter DeFrancia 1921 - ), Joanna Drew (1929-2003), Angelica Garnett (1918 - ), Alexander Glen (1912-2004), Gombrich, Ernst Hans (1909 - ), Derrick Greaves (1927- ), Daphne Henrion Hardy (1917-2004), Anthony Hill (1930 - ), Flavia Irwin (1916 - ), Morris Kestelman, (1905-1998), Justin Knowles (1935 - ), Bruce Lacey, (1927 - ), Joan LaDell, Suzanne Lackner (1908 - ), Catherine Lampert (1946 - ), John Latham (1921 - ), Liliane Lijn (1939 - ), Leonard McComb (1930 - ), John McNairm, Conroy Maddox, (1912-2005), Belinda Mara (1950 - ), Frank Martin (1914-2004), Gustav Metzger (1926- ), Klaus Meyer (1918-2002), Jacqueline Morreau (1929 - ), James Morrison (1931 - ), Brandon Neiland (1941 - ), Antony Penrose, (1947 - ), Godrey Pilkington (1918 - ), Nicholas Pope (1949 - ), Patrick Proctor (1936 - ), Kenneth Rowntree (1915-1997), John Russell (1919 - ), Jo Self (1956 - ), Jack Smith (1928 - ), Joe Studholme (1936 - ), Ian Tregarthen-Jenkin (1920-2004) [F10736] 19 sixty-minute cassettes, interviewed by Linda Sandino, recorded in Fyfield. Marc Vaux (19332 - ) (listen to excerpt), Pauline Vogelpoet (1926-2002), Diana Walford (1918 - ), Evelyn Williams (1929 - ), George Wyllie (1921- ),

Burlington Magazine - "World's leading monthly publication devoted to the fine and decorative arts." Administrators of the Eric Mitchell Prize given to art historians. See List of Mitchell Prize Winners since 1977
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 - Library of Congress
Calder Foundation - With Life and Works of Alexander Calder. Includes Site Map
Canada Council for the Arts - News Room
Canadian Encyclopedia - Articles on Architecture, The New Landscape Movement, The Group of Seven, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Native Art, David Brown Milne, Emily Carr, Thomas John Thompson,
Carol Gerten's Fine Art: A Virtual Art Museum - Scans of over 6,000 paintings, accessible via Artist Index.
Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance - "More than 200.000 entries contain pictorial and written documents, locations, persons, concepts of times and styles, events, research literature and illustrations."
Center for Advanced Research in the Visual Arts - National Gallery of Art. Their Annual Reprot for 2005 - Center 25: Record of Activities and Research Reports, June 2004–May 2005 - includes The Sanctified Landscape: The Transformation of the Mid-Hudson Valley, 1824-1909, by David Schuyler (page 142). The 2004 Annual Report is also available.
Center for Creative Photography - Founded by Ansel Adams at the University of Arizona, Tucson in 1976, the Center "holds more archives and individual works by 20th-century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation." The CCP Library "holds more than 26,000 volumes on the history of photography along with more than 100 periodicals, rare books, and the personal book collections of photographers such as W. Eugene Smith." Search for book titles in the SABIO Online Catalog. Finding Aids for some of the items in the Collections & Archives include Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Edward Curtis Barry Goldwater, Hansel Mieth/Otto Hagel Archive, Aaron Siskind and Paul Strand. There is also a complete list of Archival Collections (2005) and an Index [to] The Archive 1976-1994, the Center's scholarly publication, compiled by Amy Rule with editorial assistance by Kimberly M. Stammer. See also Mining A Rich Lode of Photographs, by Taylor Holliday, Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2006, p. D10.
Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris
Ceramics Today - Steven Goldate, editor.
Ceramics with Wabi - Douglas M. Hooten's ceramics are accompanied by explanatory text.
Ceramics Web - Richard Burkett's site "includes such things as databases of glaze recipes and material analyses, links to other ceramics web sites, health and safety information, and a variety of educational materials related to ceramics."
Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China - 99 political posters drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Christies International
Clio Awards - Creative advertising award winners.
College Art Association
CAA Reviews
CAA Reviews: Books - You can browse Recent Books in the Arts by categories
Recently Published Reviews
CAA Reviews: Exhibitions
CAA Reviews: Essays
Dissertations
CAA News Archive - Goes back to March, 2003.
Collage Portal - Image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
Communication Arts - Interactive design manual with searchable database of design firms, advertising agencies, photographers, illustrators and multimedia developers.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum - Smithsonian Institution site provides information on their past, current and future exhibitions.
Confédération internationale des négociants en oeuvres d'art (CINOA) - "International confederation of 32 art and antiques dealer associations in 21 countries representing about five thousand antiques and art dealers in a wide array of specialties."
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts - "Specializes in the treatment of art and historic artifacts on paper."
Corbis Archive - Microsoft's digital art collection; includes samples from Bettmann Archive.
Council of Europe - The European Museum Forum "organises the annual European Museum of the Year Award for newly built or improved museums." There is a List of all awards from 1977
Courtauld Institute of Art - London
Cruikshank Artwork at Princeton University Library - Provides a searchable database, a catalogue of drawings, and an experimental interactive gallery showing preliminary drawings next to the finished prints, along with commentary and cataloguing records.
Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive (CPANDA) - "Interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. A collaborative effort of Princeton University's Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, CPANDA is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts."
CultureBase: The International Artist Database - "Based on specialized journalists' research information. These extensive, cutting-edge articles are about both prominent or less-known international artists, some of whom are nearly impossible to find on the Internet." You can browse by artist name, genre, instrument, project, region, country, institution and crossroad, a special feature which " enables you to make unexpected connections between artists. Crossroads place the artists and their work in new, narrative contexts."
CultureFinder - Searchable calendar of over 300,000 arts events.
Daguerreian Society - "Dedicated to the history, science and art of the daguerreotype." (See also Daguerrotypes at Harvard, Secrets of the Dark Chamber and America's First Look into the Camera.)
Danish Museum of Art and Design (Kunstindustrimuseet) - Copenhagen. Also known as the Danish Museum of Decorative Art. Has a Furnitureindex.
Danmarks Kunstbibliotek - Copenhagen. Largest Scandinavian art library provides a number of useful databses. Among the databases are Bibliographi over Dansk Kunst
Danish National Research Database
Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists' Index - Maintained by Syndicated cartoonist Daryl Cagle
Detroit Institute of Arts - Their Diamondial , a visual resources art image database, contains over 1000 images from the DIA's permanent collection and their online catalogue contains over 70,000 titles in art and art history.
Dia: Beacon - "Museum for Dia Art Foundation's renowned collection of art from the 1960s to the present." See The Patron Gets a Divorce by Joe Nocera, New York Times, October 14, 2007.
Dictionary of Art Historians: a Biographical Dictionary of Historians, Museum Directors and Scholars of Art - Lee Sorensen, Duke University Libraries. The database is searchable by name, methodology and country of origin. There are entries for John Canaday, Alfred Barr, John Fleming, Nikolaus Pevsner, Bernard Berenson, Sacheverell Sitwell and many more.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas - Full-text of the out-of-print book edited by Philip P. Wiener, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973-74. Topics include nature, humanity, art, history, politics, religion and philosophy, math and logic. Made available by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library.
Direction des Musées de France. Catalogue collectif des bibliothèques des musées nationaux
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - 2,000 high resolution digital images of Celtic and other manuscripts from the collections of a number of University of Oxford Libraries. (To see the images you must click on I accept the conditions.)
Edmund De Waal - Ceramic artist, London.
Elsas Producties - Dutch site has 10,000 links to museum sites.
Enluminures - French government database (base de données) has 16,810 online images of illuminated manuscripts. You can browse by author, title, subject, and type of decoration. One subject, for example, is Anges musiciens (angel musicians).
Enluminures de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon - Over 3,000 images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance. To access the images, click on Connexion à la base enluminures.
FBI Art Theft Program - With Theft Notices, Theft Recoveries and links to Related Sites.
Fine Arts in Hungary: from the beginnings in the Romanesque period up to the mid 20th century - Ministry of Informatics and Communication
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Outstanding feature is the searchable Art Imagebase with over 75,000 items (including 3,000 Japanese prints).
Finding Images on the Web - Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library - University of Virginia Library Library has an excellent collection of links to a wide variety of art resources on the Internet.
Fine Art Society - London dealers have 19th and 20th century and contemporary divisions.
Fitzwilliam Museum - University of Cambridge. Search the Collection provides selected images listed by name and object.
Fixing Shadows: Still Photography - J. David Sapir's site is "devoted to photographic topics including the work of individual photographers and photographs of historical and ethnographic interest and value."
Flora Danica Online - Danish National Library of Science and Medicine project to digitize 3240 folio-sized pictures of wild plants in Denmark from Flora Danica and provide a searchable database of plants. The Flora Danica porcelain dinner set, made between 1790 and 1802, consisted of 1802 pieces, of which 1500 survive. You can browse the images by plate number. Examples include Digitalis purpurea (foxglove), Dipsacus silvester (teasel) and Delphinium Consolida (larkspur).
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain - Paris
Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Venezia / Venice. You can search the online Photo library of the Institute of Art History.
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (1839-1927): A Preliminary Catalog of his Paintings - Jerome H. Saltzer, a Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at MIT, documents nearly 400 of Schafer's paintings, in most cases including a reproduction. With records of Auction Sales, subject index, title index and Other indexes.
Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library - New York
Galleries: New York: Gagosian Gallery
Gallica - Text and image digitization project undertaken by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Among the full-texts are
Dictionnaire national des contemporains - 6 vols in 4. [1899-1919]. Contains biographical information on artists (peintre, architecte, sculpteur, graveur, critique d'art). For example on page 132, of Volume 1 is a biography of Fantin-Latour.
Gazette de l'Hotel Drouot - Paris auction house. With catalogues, a search engine and links to auctioneers. Gazette Web is the auction sales weekly magazine.
George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film - Located in Rochester, New York, the museum's Schankman Image Server offers access to its extensive still photography collection by photographer. Among the photographers are Eugene Atget (494 images), Julia Margaret Cameron (115 images), Andreas Feininger (130 images), Lewis W. Hine's Ellis Island series (170 images), William Henry Jackson, (448 images), Yousuf Karsh (58 images), Henri LeSecq (125 images) and Alfred Stieglitz (192 images). In Photography from 1839 to today, a George Eastman House Collection Guide (Published by Taschen 1999), is a Photographer Index with 727 images. Additionally, there is a Technology Collection with images of early cameras, a Pre-Cineman Project, a Civil War Collection and Stereo Views.
German Galleries - Provides an index to artists, galleries and to cities.

The Getty - Los Angeles.
J. Paul Getty Museum
Current Exhibitions
Searchable Databases
Art & Architecture Thesaurus - "Controlled vocabulary for describing and retrieving information on fine art, architecture, decorative art, and material culture."
Categories for the Description of Works of Art
Census of Antique Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance
Getty Provenance Index Databases
Data Standards and Guidelines
Introduction to Archival Organization and Description
Getty Standards Program
Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
Introduction to Art Image Access: Issues, Tools, Standards, Strategies
Introduction to Imaging
Introduction to Metadata,
Object ID, Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) - "Contains approximately 900,000 records for places, arranged in hierarchies representing all nations of the modern world, and including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, place types, and other relevant information."
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) - "Database of biographical and bibliographical information on artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants."
Getty Conservation Institute - Offers a monthly newsletter and Research WebStracts, a comprehensive list and abstracts of the writings of the Scientific staff of the Institute
ArtsEdNet (with site map "Supports the needs of the K-12 arts education community.
Getty Research Institute - Has a Research Library with an online catalog and Collections Integrated Catalog displays links to those Getty databases available to all and provides access to subject and alphabetical lists of subscription databases and Internet links. There are Special Collections Finding Aids.
Iris - Research Library Online Catalog - Use the catalog to locate special collections and finding aids (Getty Research Library Catalog) Examples:
Clement Greenberg Papers , 1928-1995
Harold Rosenberg Papers , 1923-1984
Irving Sandler Papers , ca. 1914-2001, bulk 1950-2000

Getty Photo Study Collection Database - Contains mostly descriptive records but there are several links to actual images. Try this search: limit your search to the Tapestries collection and use Getty Trust for key words, then select Search & Display. This search retrieves 646 records. Select Display Selected. Clicking on the number in the top line (Linked Image) will display the image.

Google Image Search - Over 150 million images
Göteborg Museum of Art
Guggenheim Museums - New York. The Hugo Boss Prize is awarded biennially. The 2004 winner was Rirkrit Tiravanija.
A Guide to Diaries in the Archives of American Art - "Summarizes close to 1,300 volumes totaling over 250,000 pages found throughout the collections in the Archives of American Art. Written by hundreds of artists, art historians, critics, collectors and others, they provide day-to-day firsthand accounts of appointments made and met, travel itineraries and work in progress, and are laced with personal ruminations and the all-important name dropping."
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. - Publishers of fine art and illustrated books
Henry Moore Foundation
Heritage Preservation - "Working to save the objects that embody our history, partnering with conservators, museums, civic groups, and concerned individuals across the nation who care about preserving pieces of our shared and individual pasts." Heritage Health Index "was published in December 2005 and concludes that immediate action is needed to prevent the loss of 190 million artifacts that are in need of conservation treatment."
History of Art - Prentice Hall site provides links to websites to complement chapters in Janson's History of Art textbook.
Iconclass - "Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system; it is a hierarchically ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine the subject of images represented in various media such as paintings, drawings and photographs." (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
iculture - Cultural news from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation includes Visual Arts and Design.
Image of France: Index to French Printed Imagery 1811-1817 - Keyword access
Index - "World arena for future design and innovation."
Index of American Design - More than 1,000 artists participated in the Works Progress Administration project (1935-1942) in which over 17,000 full-color watercolor drawings were made of decorative, folk and popular arts. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art - With Nouvelles de l'INHA and Catalogue Commun. "Le catalogue commun de l'INHA, qui réunit les catalogues des trois bibliothèques participantes (Bibliothèque de l'INHA collections Jacques Doucet, Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, collections imprimées du Service des collections de l'Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts), de la bibliothèque associée de l'Ecole nationale des Chartes et de la bibliothèque du centre Gernet-Glotz comporte à ce jour 600.000 notices."
Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA OnLinie)
Institute of Museum and Library Services - Independent federal grantmaking agency for museums, libraries and archives. The site offers Monthly Highlights, Grants in Your State, Legislative Update, and information on IMLS Funded Projects.
International Center of Photography - New York museum provides information on current and previous exhibitions, including CHIM: The Photographs of David Seymour and Weegee's World: Life, Death and the Human Drama.
International Council of Museums - Provides access to the archives of the International Council of Museums Discussion List.
International Cultural Property Protection - United States Department of State collects Recent Reports of Looting, Theft, Prosecution and Recovery on the World Wide Web. There is a Site Index and an Image Database of Restricted Objects which includes Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Peru, Mali and Cyprus. (The FBI Art Theft Program provides a list of links to Related Sites.)
International Directory of Art Libraries - "Access nearly 3,000 libraries and library departments with specialized holdings in art, architecture, and archaeology throughout the world" provided by International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Investigating the Renaissance - Harvard University Art Museum site examines "material aspects of three early Netherlandish paintings using digital imaging techniques."
Iowa Women Artists Oral History Project - Artists are listed by name, medium and location.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston
Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum - Museum in Long Island City, New York provides extensive information on Noguchi's life and work. (See also An Oasis of Art, Smithsonian Magazine, January 2001.)
Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization - With sections on architecture, calligraphy, carpets and coins.
Japanese Pottery Information Center (e-yakimono.net) - With Site Map. Highlights include Photo Tours, a Guidebook which contains 200 images of styles, clays, kilns, glazes, and techniques and a Who's Who of artists, experts and exhibitions, some of which are stories by Robert Yellin from the Japan Times.
Joconde - Database which describes drawings, prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs and art objects held in over 70 museums in France. There are over 137,000 items in the database, by 15,000 artists, and representing 45,000 people and places. (Only the descriptioin of the object will be retrieved.)
Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies - Department of Conservation and Museum Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Full-text articles in the Archive are organized by author, issue and conference.
KCRW Art Talk - Art reviews, news and announcements from Edward Goldman. Archives of the show are also available at Odeo.
Kulturnet Danmark - Danish culture, institutions, projects & news.
Kunstlinks - Searchable database of art links (in German)
Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna
Kyoto National Museum - Offers an Online Database which currently contains 2,000 of over 5,000 works owned by the museum, searchable by keyword or category. Masterworks offers images and descriptions of 100 of the museum's best-known works, organized by category. A keyword search for Furisode Kimono retrieves over 100 results.
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "this site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."
Library of Congress Catalog
Library of Congress Webcasts
Kelly Cresap: Pop Trickster Fool: Warhol Performs Naivete - 17 May 2005
Light Factory - Photographic laboratory and gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Online Exhibitions include Women of the Photo League, As Long as the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East and Cort Savage's Serial Homology, videotaped interviews with the artist's mother and father.
Le livre de chasse de Gaston Phébus - Exposition virtuelle at the Bibliothèque nationale de France provides images from the manuscript, written between 1387 à 1389. Included are many scenes from the hunt, including the hunted (leopards, rabbits, deer, bears, boars) and the hunters (dogs, le veneur, le valet). Pages from the manuscript can also be viewed in the BNF's Le roi Charles V et son temps but the quality of the images is slightly inferior (compare wolves to wolves.)
Lost Art Database - German goverment database registers "cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism."
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art - Denmark
Maison Européenne de la Photo - Paris
Marine Art Information Center - "Picture gallery of marine watercolours and paintings supplemented by information on maritime art: auctions, galleries, history, photography, reference materials and museums."
Mark Harden's Artchive - Text and articles and 2,000 scans from over 200 different artists.
Masks - "Index of mask images, mask makers, masquerade troupes, and relevant resources from around the world."
Masters of Photography - Just two examples of what the site offers: Alexander Rodchenko's 1924 portrait of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky (with articles) and Lee Friedlander's portrait of Paul Tate, (with articles)
mda on-line (Museum Documentation Association) - UK cultural heritage association. Their 24 Hour Museum has a Museum Finder. wordHOARD is a guide to terminology resources relevant to museums, including links to a selection of on-line thesauri, classification systems and other authority files, many of which can be accessed free. Includes: Archaeological Objects Thesaurus, British Museum Materials Thesaurus, British Museum Object Names Thesaurus and the Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume (available in French, English and German).
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - "11,000 unique illustrations from 400 illuminated manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague, The Netherlands." Searchable by subject and place names, artists, dates, iconographic themes, and types.
Menil Collection - Houston, Texas museum collections concentrates on art from antiquity, the Byzantine world, tribal cultures, and the twentieth century.

Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York.
Collection Database - Images and descriptions of over 30,000 of works. "The database currently includes records for the entire holdings of the Department of European Paintings, the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, the Photographs Department, and the Provenance Research Project, as well as highlights from each of the Museum's other curatorial departments, the Museum's libraries, and the database of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center."
Costume Institute
Antonio Ratti Textile Center
Index of Special Features
Current Exhibitions
Past Exhibitions
Libraries and Study Centers
Watsonline - Online catalog of the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Online Resources - Assembled by the Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources
Annual Report for the Year 2006-2007

Minassian Collection of Persian, Mughal, and Indian Miniature Paintings - John Hay Library, Brown University. Primarily Persian miniature paintings from the 15th to the 18th century, many from the Shahnama of Ferdowsi. There is a map of the Safavid Empire. This is an honors thesis by Alanna Benham for a Bachelor of Arts. The database is searchable by text, language, image, date and even pigment. Image i091, for example, is from the 17th century, School of Shah Jahan, Mughal.
Ministère de la culture et de la communication - Provides links to Bases de données patrimoniales and to Bases de données Documentation.
Mother of All Art History Links maintained by Patrick Young, Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza - Madrid
Muséofile: Le répertoire des musées français - Searchable database allows you to locate French museums by location or by collection.
Museum het Rembrandthuis

Musée du Louvre - Paris. Search the collection in Atlas, a database of nearly 20,000 images. For example, a simple search (recherche simple) for Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, (check the box Seulement les œuvres illustrées), retrieves 80 results including:
Environs de Mortain. Chemin bordé à gauche par des pommiers
Le Forum vu des jardins Farnèse - You can also view this image without the frame (vue sans cadre)
Montagnes de la campagne romaine. Le rocher des Nazons
Panorama de la campagne romaine: Les monts Prenestini vus d'Olevano
Rosny (Yvelines). Le château de la duchesse de Berry
Ville-d'Avray - "Ce tableau représente l'étang, la maison Cabassud et l'extrémité de la propriété de Corot à Ville-d'Avray (Hauts-de-Seine), acquise par les parents de l'artiste en 1817. Le peintre aimait s'y retirer et a laissé plusieurs vues de ce site. Sa maison subsiste encore aujourd'hui, sans grand changement."
Velléda
Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. La tour Philippe le Bel (1843)

Musée du Louvre - Paris Pages
Musée d'Orsay - Paris
Musée du Québec
Musée Rodin - Paris.
Musei Vaticani - Vatican Museum site is searchable and includes the Cappella Sistina (Sistine Chapel).
Museum Computer Network - Has links to 1,000 international museum and museum-related WWW sites in Museum Sites Online.
Museum Loan Network
Museum of American Folk Art - New York
Museum of Art - Brigham Young University - Provides information on Exhibits, which includes 150 Years of American Painting 1794-1944, 73 online images of American paintings with catalog description, arranged chronologically, by artist and by title.
Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago. The collection is searchable
Museum of Fine Arts - Boston. Sections include Site Map, Collections, Exhibitions and Museum Shop.
Museum of Jurassic Technology - Culver City, California
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - New York. With information on current and past exhibitions. Provides access to DADABASE, the online catalog of the Museum of Modern Art Library, Archives and Study Centers. Images in the Painting and Sculpture section are accompanied by audio commentaries and transcripts. Online exhibitions include Jasper Johns: a retrospective, Bonnard and Jackson Pollock.
Museum Security Network: Art Loss Register - Ton Cremers "collects and disseminate information about incidents and trade involving stolen cultural property."
MuseumNetwork
MuseumsUSA
Mythography - "Exploring Greek, Roman, and Celtic Mythology and Art."
National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts - New York
National Archives of Canada - Offering online exhibtions among which are Pride and Dignity: Aboriginal Portraits (c.1846 - c.1960), which includes a portrait of Peter Newhouse, Onondaga and Chiefs from the Six Nations Reserve at Brantford, Ontario, reading Wampum belts, and Indian Treaties, with scanned images of 13 treaties ranging from 1795 to 1808. Also available is an Aboriginal Peoples Thematic Guide. ArchiviaNet is "an automated research tool that allows you to access a vast amount of information from various databases and automated systems." You can search for Audio visual records (photographs and art) in ArchiviaNet's database and limit your search to descriptions with a digitized images only. For example, a search for Indian (or Native$ or Indian$), in the art database, limiting to digitized images only, retrieved nearly 100 images, including Major John Norton, Teyoninhokarawen, the Mohawk Chief(1805), A View of the Rapids and Falls of Niagara from the Heights of Chippewa, with an encampment of Senekas (1804), Indian Wigwam in Lower Canada (1848), Moose hunter Quebec (1840), Shoshonie Woman: Throwing the Lasso (1867), Mary Bernard Whykokamagh (1840-46), and Indian Lodge United States (1867).
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies - With links to State Agencies.
National Endowment for the Arts - Includes a site map, News and Funding.
National Gallery - London. With many online images form the Collections
National Gallery of Art - Washington, D.C. museum provides information on Current Exhibitions. There is a site map The collection is searchable by specific artist or title. "You can access images of more than 4,700 objects in the National Gallery's collection and approximately 9,275 related details." Features include In-Depth Studies: Artists and Works of Art with sections on Copley's Watson and the Shark, Manet's the Railway, Thomas Moran, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Alfred Stieglitz and Johannes Vermeer. A collection of teaching resources can be found in Exploring Themes in American Art. Gemini G.E.L. online catalogue raisonne is a searchable and browsable database of the Gemini GEL (Graphic Editions Limited) publications of "the acclaimed Los Angeles print and sculpture workshop from its beginning in 1966 through 1996." There are over 50 artists represented. Browse by artist, series, publication or date or search for a particular item. On the search page, for example, select the artist Claes Oldenburg, check the Show Images box and 71 thumbnail images of his works will be retrieved. Click on the thumbnail and you'll get further details, including fabrication notes and larger images. (The cast aluminum Profiterole (38.44) looks good enough to eat.) There are also images of 97 David Hockney works. NGA Streaming Slideshows include Winslow Homer's Right and Left, The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi , Treasures of Ancient Egypt
National Gallery of Canada - Ottawa. With information on Collections and Exhibitions. Cybermuse allows you to search the collections. Bulletin and Annual Bulletin, "published between 1963 and 1985, containing articles on art with a focus on Canadian art and on the Gallery’s own collections." There is an Annual Index and an Author and Subject Index.
National Museum of Women in the Arts - Washington, DC.
National Portrait Gallery - Washington, D.C. With Past Exhibitions and Selections from the Permanent Collection.There is a Collection and Research Records Search and an Expanded Person Search. You can search for books, caricatures, collages, decorative arts, drawings, medals, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, silhouettes, and 'others'.
National Portrait Gallery - London. Has a Picture Library Search with information on approximately 10,000 works in which you can search for artist, sitter of by title or by NPG number. (In Advanced Search you can restrict your search to images available on web site.) There is an alphabetical list of artists, as well as an alphabetical list of sitters. Do a Portrait search for 1762 (Swinburne and his sisters), P221 (Virginia Woolf), 1597 (Samuel Johnson), 3061 (William Butler Yeats), 142 (George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron), P101(f) (Rupert Brooke), 3635 (Beatrix Potter), CP18 (Alan Sillitoe), 5046 (Julia Margaret Cameron), P702 (Thomas Stearns Eliot) and P7(26) (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

Netherlands Institute for Art History - Offers a good selection of links and access to a number of Online Databases including:
RKDartists& - "Largest on-line database of artists in the world."
RKDimages - Some terms to search for: landschap (landscape), vogel (bird), rivier (river), stilleven (still life), Zelfportret (self portrait), interieur, bloemstilleven (flower still life), bloem or bloemen (flower or flowers). A search in this database for Van Gogh retrieved 250 black and white images including Een paar klompen (1888) - A pair of clogs.
RKDcollections&archives - "Contains basic facts about archives and collections belonging to artists, artist societies, art dealers, art collectors, art historians and restorers."
RKDportraits - "Contains more than 57,000 descriptions of portraits of Dutch individuals; this constitutes more then half of the total collection of portrait documentation."
Iconclass - "Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system; it is a hierarchically ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine the subject of images represented in various media such as paintings, drawings and photographs."
Central Register of Design Archives (CRVa) - "Comprises over 1700 names of designers and companies. It contains key data (full name, vital dates and specialization) for approximately 300 archives of national and international importance."

New York Times: Arts/Living - Daily. See also Arts@large Archive, Matthew Mirapaul's weekly column in the New York Times Cybertimes.
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden - With a Garden Tour.
19th and 20th Century Architecture and Design - The Aesthetic Movement - Good collection of links to resources on architects, designers, artisans, and antiques provided by Felhandler Steeneken & Wilk, Architects.
Onview - Sells modern and contemporary art from nearly 200 galleries. You can browse by name, medium, style, region or subject. they also offer art news and a Reference Center and search form which will search the Oxford Dictionary of Art, the Oxford Dictionary of 20th Century Art, and the Media Index.
Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web (OCAIW)
PaceWildenstein Gallery - New York & Los Angeles
Paintings of Vermeer - Roy Williams Clickery
Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice, the museum contains European and American art of the first half of the 20th century.
Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art - A joint project by the Canadian Heritage Information Network, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Winnipeg Art Gallery. With Site Map.
Patrimoine Photographique - "Organization mandated by the Architecture and Heritage Department of the Ministry of Culture to conserve, manage and promote the photographic collections belonging to the French State." Offers a computerized inventory plus a database referencing a representative selection of images from the collections. You can browse by theme or photographer. Daniel Boudinet, Marcel Bovis, Denise Colomb, Roger Corbeau, Amelie Galup, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Francois Kollar, Therese Le Prat, Sam Levin, Roger Parry, Rene-Jacques, Bruno Requillart, Studio Harcourt and Raymond Voinquel are represented.
Performa - "Non-profit interdisciplinary arts organization committed to the research, development, and presentation of performance by visual artists from around the world." Sponsors of Performa05: First Biennial of New Visual Art Performance in New York
Perseus Project - Tufts University (Department of the Classics) provides this comprehensive digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. It has an Art & Archaeology section with images of architecture and coins.
Phillips de Pury & Company - Art auction house with headquarters in New York and offices in Berlin, Geneva, London, Munich, Paris and Zurich.
Photographers' Gallery - First independent gallery in Britain devoted to photography
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - Moscow. (Most of site available in Russian only.)
Rajasthan Painting - India. Artists include the family of Bagta and his son Chokha who dominated the Devgarh school in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. See The Artists of Nathadwara: The Practice of Painting in Rajasthan (2004) by Tryna Lyons (you can search inside this book at Amazon.com); Bagta and Chokha – Master Artists at Devgarh (2005) by Milo Cleveland Beach, former director of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, DC; and Andrew Topsfield’s Court Painting at Udaipur (2000) and his City Palace Museum, Udaipur: Paintings of Mewar Court Life (1990). Topsfield is Senior Assistant Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Restoration Online - Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Réunion des musées nationaux
Rhizome - New York online arts resource with a e-mail discussion list and digital arts projects.
Rhode Island School of Design - With access to the library catalog. The Museum's Decorative Arts collection encompasses European and American decorative arts (furniture, silver and other metalwork, wallpaper, ceramics, and glass) from the Medieval period to the present.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam - Offers a virtual tour through 150 museum rooms.
Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art - "Work of 230 film makers from 25 different countries and consists of more than 640 films and videos on art available worldwide." There is a General Index and Modern Literature Index which provides streaming video clips of authors discussing their work.
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts - Provides a list of Members Since 1880. You can also search by discipline or province.
Royals Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium / Musees royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique - Brussels / Bruxelles. You can search the online catalogue to locate items in the collection. An advanced search (Recherche avancée) using peinture à l'eau (aquarelle) for Materiau/techniques retrieves over 200 results including 43 by Léon Spilliaert (1881-1946). See Le tunnel, numero 11059. Other artists with multiple online images include Edith van Leckwyck (1899-1987); Cristiaan Lodewijk Willem Dreibholtz (1799-1874); Guillaume Vogels (1836-1896), François-Joseph Navez (1787 - 1869); Paul Delvaux (1897-1994)
Russian Museums - Official Russian museum directory
Saint-Gervais Geneve: Centre for L'Image Contemporaine - Geneva foundation for performing and visual arts "concerned with art and new technologies, photography, video, computer, cinema, multimedia and the web."Projects and Links lead to innovative and complex new media projects. vases. (A search for Hermes located 260 images.)
Sandra J. Hildreth - Artist specializing in rural and wilderness landscapes in watercolor and oil, primarily of New York State. Hildreth is also an art teacher at the Madrid-Waddington Central School in Madrid, New York, and an Adjunct Professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton. Among her Most Recent Works is Bakers Clearing, North Woods Club, an oil painting based on a "visit to the North Woods Club, near Minerva, NY, where Winslow Homer spent many of his summers. This same view was painted by Eliphalet Terry, the artist who brought Homer to Bakers Farm in 1859." Other works include Oil Paintings, Rural Landscapes (1997), Wilderness Series (1997), More Wilderness Paintings (1998), Mandala Paintings, Watercolor Paintings, More Watercolors and Adirondack Landscape Paintings. In 1997 Hildreth received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue her interest in the painters of the Hudson River School.
Salon. Catalogue illustré du Salon (Société des artistes français). 1879-1907 - Official illustrated catalogues of the Salon exhibition. There are Table de Matières (Table of Contents) for each year. In Gallica, bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France. Also in Gallica is Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants, Exposition des beaux-arts , and Le salon de.... .
Sargent at Harvard - "Searchable database that makes available images and textual information relating to the American artist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) in the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums."
School of Visual Arts - New York. With Current Exhibitions.
Serpentine Gallery - London.
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden - University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Provides an Artist Index with links to images.
SILS Art Image Browser - Database of art, architectural and museum objects; University of Michigan School of Information and Library Studies.
Sir John Soane's Museum - Kensington Gardens, London.
Slade Professorship of Fine Art - Vsiting professorships at Oxford for artists and historians of art, awarded since 1955. Past recipients include Kenneth Clark, Anthony Blunt, Q.S. Bell, N. Pevsner, and Kirk Varnedoe.
Smithsonian American Art Museum - Site has over 4,000 online images which are searchable and browsable by subject. Helios, the umbrella site for photography, offers American Photographs: the First Century with "over 175 photographs with details of many of the images, audio commentaries, curatorial discussion, personal captioning, and the ability to send digital postcards." Other online exhibitions include An Edward Hopper Scrapbook, Lure of the West, Ashcan School of artists, Chaim Gross, Elihu Vedder, the American Daguerrotype, the Monotype, and American Photographs.
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) - SIRIS has six catalogs available for searching. They include: Library Catalog, Archives & Manuscripts Catalog, Art Inventories Catalog, Peter A. Juley & Son Collection Catalog, Research/Bibliographies Catalog and the Smithsonian Chronology Catalog.
Smithsonian Craft Show - Has categories for basketry, ceramics, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art and wood.
Sociétédes Artistes Français - Has a Galerie Web
Sotheby's
Spotlight: Art of the Western World - Tour web sites related to art history, architecture and famous artists. (Annenberg/CPB Project.)
State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia. Their Digital Collection is a virtual gallery of high-resolution artwork images, browsable by country.
Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam museum of modern and contemporary art
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute - Williamstown, Massachusetts. Provides access to the library catalog.
Stephen Hannock - Landscape painter. See profile - An Artist in Demand - by Mike Miliard in the Fall 2006 issue of Bowdoin Magazine. "Steve Hannock '74 might be the most accomplished and well-connected artist you've never heard of."
Steve: Art Museum Social Tagging Project - ""Steve” is a collaborative research project exploring the potential for user-generated descriptions of the subjects of works of art to improve access to museum collections and encourage engagement with cultural content."
Tate Gallery - London. The Collections Search Facility allows you to search the Tate's database of 65,000 images. You can browse by artists names. They award the Turner Prize for contemporary art. Among the Tate Podcasts are:
Bloomberg Tate Shots
Tate ETC.
Tate Events
Tate Tracks
What Can the Matter Be? A podcast about materials, science and art
Modern Paint
Works in Focus
Young Tate: Raw Canvas
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials (TGM): Subject Terms - Library of Congress. See also Thesaurus for Graphic Materials II: Genre and Physical Characteristic Terms (TGM II), Art and Architecture Thesaurus, VRA Core Categories, Getty Union List of Artist Names, Getty Provenance Index Database, Library of Congress Authorities, IconClass, Cataloging Cultural Objects
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828 ) - Roger H. Boulet's site is dedicated to the wood engraving of Thomas Bewick, with particular reference to the works in the collection of the Edmonton Art Gallery.
Tiepolo: Virtual Picture Gallery - Pizzolato Giorgio
Time-Life Photo Sight
Tom Phillips - Works and texts by the painter and sculptor. Provides the complete catalogue of the 1989 one-man show at the National Portrait Gallery.
Toward on-line, worldwide access to Vatican Library materials - IBM is working with the Vatican Library to digitize over 20,000 documents from its rare manuscripts. (IBM Journal of Research & Development, Vol. 40, No. 2). See also A sampler of digital manuscripts and the Vatican Web Site. The Vatican Library catalog is accessible via Telnet. Among IBM's Digital Library White Papers is Safeguarding Digital Library Contents and Users: Digital Images of Treasured Antiquities, a description of IBM's collaboration with the Biblioteca Vaticana Apostolica by Henry M. Gladney, Fred Mintzer, and Fabio Schiattarella, which appeared in D-Lib Magazine, July/August 1997. IBM has also worked with the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. See Masterpieces: IBM helps the Hermitage open its virtual doors to the world.
Traditional Fine Arts Organization - Online Resources for Collectors, Life Long Learners, Students and Teachers of Art History,
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture | 1200 anni di scultura italiana - Thais provides brief biographical sketches of sculptors (in Italian), images of their work, descriptions of the various art movements, and information on museums and galleries. There is an Author/Artist Index and a Locality Index. They also have a page for Architecture.
Uffizi Gallery | Museo degli Uffizi - Official site. (For a more visual experience see Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery which has an Artist Index, and a Rooms Index. For example the Correggio Room has links to the images of 18 paintings in the room.)
UCR California Museum of Photography - University of California, Riverside
University Art Department & Printmaking Directory - William Fisher
Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam
Victoria and Albert Museum - London. The National Art Library (with site index) provides telnet access to the Library Catalog. In their image database, Images Online, you can search and view almost 2000 objects. You can also browse through 19th Century British Ceramics, 19th Century textiles and Chinese Ceramics. There are images of works by Christopher Dresser, Walter Crane, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Josef Hoffman.
The Vincent van Gogh Gallery - "Complete, online catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh's oeuvre" created by David Brooks of Toronto.
Virtual Library Museums Pages: a distributed directory of on-line museums - Jonathan B. Bowen's site, part of the WWW Virtual Library, has links to thousands of museums around the world with special sections for USA, Canada, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latin America, Luxembourg, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland and the UK.
Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery - Unofficial site, which has an Artist Index, and a Rooms Index. For example the Correggio Room links to the images of 18 paintings. (There is also an official site for the Uffizi Gallery, but it's a disappointment.)
Visual Resources Association - International organization of image media professionals. With links to Resources.
Vose Galleries - Boston. With Exhibitions and Artist Inventory.
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis
Wallace Collection - Has "one of the finest collections of French eighteenth-century pictures, porcelain and furniture outside Paris, a remarkable display of seventeenth-century paintings and a superb armoury."
Web Gallery of Art - "Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions."
WebMuseum - Nicolas Pioch's Famous Paintings Exhibition has an Artist Index.
Wegman World - William Wegman
Whitney Museum of American Art - Their American Century: Art & Culture 1900 - 1950 has "100 representations of art, including examples of painting, sculpture, architecture, film, and the decorative arts" and Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology, third in a series of four exhibitions organized jointly by the San Jose Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, provides a guided tour with audio narration, enlarged photographs, and texts.
William Gedney Photographs and Writings - This large collection, located at the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University has been completely digitized. William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe and there are lover 4,000 photographs arranged in arranged into 12 photographic series.
William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture - Online exhibition at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
William Morris Home Page - Mark Samuels Lasner
Words of Art - Robert Belton's glossary of art terms.
World Art Treasures - Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation offers art images in 15 areas (itineraries) including Vermeer, Borobudur, Caravaggio and Rococo.
World Monuments Fund - "Private, nonprofit organization founded in 1965 by individuals concerned about the accelerating destruction of important artistic and architectural treasures throughout the world". Provides list of 100 Most Endangered Sites.
World Wide Arts Resources - Links to "artists, museums, galleries, high quality art, art history, arts education, antiques, performing arts, classified ads, resume postings, arts chats and arts forums."
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art
WPSI Art Radio - "Internet station of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, featuring an MP3 stream of music, talk, and historical recordings and a free on-demand archive of over 500 programs."
Yahoo: Museums, Galleries and Centers
Yale Center for British Art
Yale University Arts Library - There's a list of the titles in the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color.
Zeroland - Directory for Art, Arts and Artists. (Adrian Hart, Auckland, New Zealand.) New Zealand

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