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Texas.net Museum of Art Just like Texas, this thing is BIG! A very easy to use "gallery." Download times seem exceptionally fast. Excellent textual materials, also.
Art Images for College Teaching, a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.
National Directory of Teacher Programs and Resources in Art Museums, the rich
multidisciplinary resources available, often free of charge, at art museums
across the United States and in Puerto Rico.
National Gallery of Art Late in coming, but well worth waiting for. Fine RealAudio mini-lectures accompany many of the 3,000 + images available at this searchable site.
Smithsonian Institution Connections to the National Museum of American Art (see below), the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Cooper-Hewitt (design), Hirshhorn (modern), African,and the National Portrait Gallery.
National Museum of American Art, from the Smithsonian.
Galleria Degli Uffize, an excellent online collection from Florence, Italy. To see enlarged version of paintings, you will have to pay for the museum's services, but there is a great deal of free text-based information.
The State Hermitage Museum, showcases the vast collections of the State Museum of Russia, founded by Catherine the Great in 1764.
The Rijksmuseum, from Holland. Be sure to have an up-to-date browser and a fast connection.
Tate Gallery Online The Tate's collections include many famous works from the history of British art as well as international modern art.
Collage, approximately 20,000 items from the collections of the Guildhall Library and the Guildhall Art Gallery of London.
Kyoto National Museum, 10,000 views of about 2,000 items.
The Thinker: Digitized Resources of San Francisco Area Museums Over 60,000 images!!
WebMuseum An exciting page for the visual arts. Check out the "Famous Paintings" and "Special Exhibitions" links, but better, by far, if you're using Netscape or Mosaic.
Posters American Style The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art has
released this marvelous complement to a touring exhibit of the same name.
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other
Printed Ephemera This site now contains over 7,000 items printed in the US and in
London. Items featured include "a variety of posters, notices,
advertisements, proclamations, leaflets, propaganda, manifestos, and
business cards," primarily from the nineteenth century.
Artsource Lists for art-historical sites, links to Smithsonian Institution's Libraries.
MUVA (Virtual Museum of Arts) -- El Pais A fabulous "virtual museum."
Artcyclopedia: the Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet Artcyclopedia allows you to search a number of museums at once and go directly to their holdings on your artist.
Louvre Museum Floor plans and history of the world's most famous art museum, plus a decent collection of images.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Five thousand years of art.
Whitney Museum of American Art Current shows, images from the permanent collection, essays, web art projects.
The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Browse through over 120 of the 1,100 artworks in
the collection, including paintings (an eclectic selection of works by
Bellini, Constable, Gainsborough, El Greco, Piero della Francesca,
Rembrandt, and Vermeer, among others), sculpture, and decorative arts.
Art Museums of England and Ireland A guide (with search engine) to some fabulous museums. See the list of museums of web-pages. Mostly descriptive, not that much actual art work here.
Art and Life in Africa, based on
the Stanley Collection at the University of Iowa Museum of Art
Cities/Buildings Image Archive This site contains a well-organized, straightforward image
archive of buildings and architectural features from around the world. The
archive is organized by country, city/town, and building/site.
Exploring Themes in American Art Provided by the National Gallery.
Digital Archive of American Architecture This site, from Boston College, gives a great overview of American architectural history including images ranging from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Director Kenneth Frazier says this site could be the
first step toward creating "a virtual encyclopedia of the decorative arts."
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, prepared by the Digital Image Center at the University of Virginia Library for use in Professor C. W. Westfall's course on Renaissance and Baroque Architecture.
Index of American Design Provided by the National Gallery of Art, this site offers selected tours of
images from the Index of American Design, a collection of approximately
17,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative arts objects from the
colonial period through the nineteenth century.
Victoria and Albert Museum Images Online The largest museum of decorative
arts in the world has a new look and a new image database containing
images of over 2,000 objects.
Van Gogh Museum offers
an excellent selection of supporting material not on display anywhere else. See, also, Van Gogh's Van Goghs (requires a free registration).
Picasso: Museo Virtual Dr. Enrique Mallen, of Texas A&M University maintains this site, which is approved by the Picasso Foundation. Amazing graphics. See, also, the section on the influences of and on Picasso.
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman MFA Boston provides this Web version of the show, which includes twenty Cassatts that you can see without leaving home.
Philadelphia Museum of Art Depending on when you visit this site, you'll discover some marvelous gallery explorations.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Generous samplings and descriptions of art.
The World of Escher A nice collection of lithographs and woodcuts from the master of spatial illusion. (Commercial)
Giotto's Frescoes at the Arena Chapel A graphically intensive site celebrating the fourteenth-century frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel.
Asian Art, make sure you visit the exhibitions and galleries!
Mirrors of the Heart-Mind highlights from the Rezk Collection of Tibetan Art.
China: 5,000 Years Hosted by the Huntington Archive at Ohio State University, this site is an electronic version of the Modern Section of the Guggenheim Exhibition entitled "China: 5,000 Years."
The Art History Resource Centre We encourage you to read, first, web-author Lief Harmsen's article, on "The Internet as a Research Medium for Art Historians."
19th Century Color Printing A look at the historical backgrounds of lithography, intaglio processes, etc., from University of Delaware Library's Special Collections.
The American Museum of Photography, maintained by William B. Becker, who also serves as the Museum's
director. Becker's collection is strongest in the first 75 years of
photography, 1839 to World War I, and "includes five thousand individual
images, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits through the first
practical color photographs."
Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography from the
National Archives The gallery features 70
photographs under the headings A New Century, The Great War and the
New Era, The Great Depression and the New Deal, A World in Flames
(World War II), Postwar America, and Century's End.
California Museum of Photography, from the University of California.
William Gedney Photographs and Writings, with 4900 photographic images, scanned writings, and notebooks, and nine digitized versions of handmade photographic books put together by Gedney himself, the site might be the largest catalog of an
individual photographer's life and work available on the Web today.
SoulEyes Magazine, devoted to photo essays, images, and works-in-progress depicting communities of color.
Art Studio Chalkboard On drawing, perspective, colors, and painting; from Evansville University.
The Illustrating Traveler, from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a look at Adventure and Illustration in North America and the Carribean, 1760-1895.
Eyes on Art From Pacific Bell--with an interactive quiz on art.
FineArt Forum Index of art schools, scholarly resources.
Krannert Art Museum From the University of Illinois, a great example of what can happen when an art museum is devoted to making itself available to the internet community.
Palmer Museum of Art From the campus of Penn State University. The building itself is worth looking at, but there's a fine collection of online images inside.
Sotheby's Wonderful graphics, auction results, notes on art collecting.
CeramicsWeb from San Diego State University
Xenonarts What's Happening on the Hartford Arts Scene--a graphically rich resource of arts-news.
