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
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.
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.)
Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - 1,000 Illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
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.)
American Association of Museums
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
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.
Archives and Museum Infomatics - With information on Conferences.
Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution. There are Oral History Interviews of American artists and architects, some with transcripts (Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Peggy Bacon, William Thon, Larry Poons, Robert Rauschenberg, Philip Guston). Online exhibitions include 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 New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project, Preliminary Guide to Craft-Related Collections (2001), Papers of African American Artists (1996) and Archivos Virtuales: Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists (2000).
Art and Craft Shows - Searchable database of arts and crafts events.
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA Online) - With information on Member Galleries.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
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
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art - Michael Delahunt provides definitions of more than 2,800 terms with illustrations, pronunciation notes, quotations, and links to other resources.
(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.
Arts@large Archive - Archive of Matthew Mirapaul's weekly column in the New York Times Cybertimes covers January 6, 2000 to July 27, 2000 when the column ended. Access requires registration, which is free. (See 'Arts At Large' No Longer in the July 28, 2000 Wired News and Where Have You Gone, Matthew Mirapaul? in the August 4, 2000 New Republic Online.)
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.
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."
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.
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.)
British Library - The 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. The National Sound Archive is "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), 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
Butterfield & Butterfield - Fine Art Auctioneers and Appraisers
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
Carol Gerten's Fine Art: A Virtual Art Museum - Scans of over 6,000 paintings, accessible via Artist Index.
Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona
Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris
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.
Clio Awards - Creative advertising award winners.
College Art Association - Their CAA Reviews, "an online publication devoted to peer review of new books relevant to the fields of art history," is searchable and has an Archives. Their collection of Resources provides links to museums, organizations and magazines and journals. Recently, for example, the Vermeer and the Delft School exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was reviewed, along with the exhibition catalog. Publishes a list of United States and Canadian Dissertations.
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.
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.
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.
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 Decorative Art
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 Center for the Arts - "Multi-disciplinary contemporary arts organization based in New York City."
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.)
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.
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
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
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.
Getty Center - Los Angeles. Location of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The site has an site map and is searchable. There are over 1,000 images available online, browsable by Artist. It offers a number of art-related databases including the Art & Architecture Thesaurus, a "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, Getty Standards Program, the Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings, Introduction to Imaging, Introduction to Metadata, Iris - Research Library Online Catalog, Object ID, Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN), which "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." The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN), is a "database of biographical and bibliographical information on artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants." The 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 while ArtsEdNet (with site map) supports the needs of the K-12 arts education community. The 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. The 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
Guggenheim Museums - New York.
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. - Publishers of fine art and illustrated books
History of Art - Prentice Hall site provides links to websites to complement chapters in Janson's History of Art textbook.
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 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
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.
Kulturnet Danmark - Danish culture, institutions, projects & news.
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."
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. You can view images of over 3,500 objects from the museum's Collection. With an Index of Special Features and Current Exhibitions. Provides information on its Libraries and Study Centers. The Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources has assembled a good collection of art-related online resources. Access is provided to Watsonline, the online catalog of the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Microsoft Art Collection - Corporate collection of over 2,000 paintings and photographs. Current and past exhibitions are available online.
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.
Musée du Louvre - Official site, also available in English. Images of major works from the collection are available.
Musée d'Orsay - Paris
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 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."
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 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).
New York Times: Arts/Living - Daily. See also Arts@large Archive, Matthew Mirapaul's weekly column in the New York Times Cybertimes.
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.
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.
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 and Luxembourg - 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.)
Restoration Online - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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.
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.
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.
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 - London
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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."
Yahoo: Museums, Galleries and Centers
Yale University Arts Library - There's a list of the titles in the Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color.
Voice of Dance - Dance reviews and interviews.
Voice of the Shuttle: Drama, Theater and Performance Art Studies
Voices From the Smithsonian Associates - "Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors." With Online Programs Topical Index. Speakers include Kenneth Branagh, Carol Burnett, Sarah Caldwell, Robert Duvall, Les Paul, Neil Simon and Betty White.
Williamstown Theatre Festival - Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Wolf Trap - Vienna, Virginia
WWW Virtual Library: Theatre and Drama - Barry Russell's collection of "pointers to resources in more than 40 countries around the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all ages." Electronic text archives and plays online is a collection links to plays that are available in full text versions online for free.
ALHFAM: the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums - Has links to Living History, Agricultural, and Open-Air Museums
American Association of Museums - Provides links to Related Sites.
Art History Libraries in London
Art History Resources on the Web: Museums & Galleries - Chris Witcombe
Art History Webmasters Association - Provides links to art history departments around the world.
Cornucopia (Museums and Galleries Commission) - Provides information on the 50 museums in England with 'Designated collections' - i.e. pre-eminent museum collections outside the National museums.
Elsas Producties - Dutch site has 10,000 links to museum sites
Index Herbariorum - Detailed directory of over 3000 public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff members associated with them. Joint project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the New York Botanical Garden. Information available for searching includes addresses of herbaria, names of those to write to for use of the collections via loans or visits, names of staff members associated with herbaria, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and URL addresses, and research specialties.
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) - Collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution.
International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts (SIBMAS) - With links to Members (by country), Research Sites and National Collections.
International Confederation of Architectural Museums: Directory
International Council of Museums - Provides access to the archives of the International Council of Museums Discussion List
International Directory of Art Libraries - IFLA
Links to Museums Online - Art Dealers Association of America
Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
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."
Musee - Links to over 37,000 museums
Muséofile: Le répertoire des musées français - Searchable database allows you to locate French musuems by location or by collection.
Museum Computer Network - Has links to 1,000 international museum and museum-related WWW sites in Museum Sites Online.
MuseumNet - Searchable database of UK museums by name, keyword and region.
Museums from A to Z - Video On Line, Italy
Museums On Line - "World's most comprehensive museum Web site navigator with direct links to cultural institutions all over the globe."
WebMuseen: Museen und Ausstellungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz - Museums in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (in German).
World Wide Arts Resources: Museums
WWW Virtual Library Museums Page: a distributed directory of on-line museums - Jonathan Bowen
