General Art Resources

• Art History Resources on the Web Extensive resources on many artists and periods. Resources by period
• Artists Index Very extensive index to artists and their works. Both masters and lesser known artists included. Also includes guide to art styles.
  
• Index to artists from the WebMuseum, Paris Gateway to Art of the Western World, the Annenberg series. Includes links to full-text, hyperlinked documents and graphics in sections.
• Glossary of painting styles from the Web Museum
• Famous Paintings Exhibit. from the Web Museum. Includes links to Artists, styles, periods, and themes
• World Wide Art Resources
  
• Middle Ages, Renaissance art in Italy, Renaissance art in Northern Europe & Spain, Baroque, 18th-Century, 19th-Century, 20th-Century, Non-European and Asian Art.
• ArtsEd Net from the Getty Center for Education in the Arts "Facilitates the exchange of ideas and information on K through 12 arts education." Includes a library connection.
• World Art Treasures Incredibly broad collection of world Art treasures. Includes Renaissance, Botticelli, Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Indian) and Egyptian art Available in French
• Clip Art from Yahoo
• New Deal for the Arts an extensive exhibit from the National Archives
• Copyright Friendly images from Pics4Learning. This site is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. On Mac computer, Control click to copy picture.
• Art Access From The Art Institute of Chicago has lesson plans, family activities and multicultural art resources. Areas of study include Ancient Indian Art of the Americas, African American Art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Modern and Contemporary Art.
• ArtServe Australian National University server with access to 16,000 images. Main menu at bottom of homepage provides links to art, architecture, prints by artist, etc. Variable in quality.

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Art History

• Art History Resources on the Web. Very extensive. Includes art from all periods and links to art museums and galleries worldwide. Site created and maintained by Art Professor Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
• Galaxy-Art History Link to collections, directories, organizations for Art History.
• Greek Art Vase Painting and Sculpture
• The History of Art Virtual Library
• Emergence of Advertising in America 1850-1920
  Browse the exhibits from this Duke University website, or search for a specific term such as auto or soap. Find out more about the products used in America's past.
• Medici Archive Project The enormous archive of the Medici family based in Florence contains thousands of letters written during the 16th century. Art works are also included. Site includes Arts & Humanities, Jewish History, and Costume & Textiles sections.
• Last Expressions: Art from Auschwitz
  The Block Museum at Northwestern University features the art created by prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during their incarceration during the Holocaust. Art browsable by media, artist, or location. Biographies of the artists explain how they came to create the artwork.
• World art treasures of Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation. Art treasures from Africa, Asia, South Asia, and North America. Slide shows of art. Available in French.
• Yahoo: Art History

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Museums

• The Thinker: links to the Palace of the Legion of Honor and the DeYoung
• Index to artists from the WebMuseum, Paris
• Web Museum Link to world wide museums.
• Extensive list of worldwide Museums and Galleries collected by Chris Whitcombe, professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College..
• Yahoo guide to Museums and Galleries

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Graphic Art

• History through Graphic Art: Graphic art books which concern historical events or provide learning through a graphic format.
  

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Painting

• Premier Grand Prix de Rome Learn about the history of l'Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts, one of the world's oldest fine arts schools.
  
• Tres Riches Heures The original Riches Heures manuscript is here.
• Prehistoric Cave Art In French. Many explanations of the pictures.
  
• Women Visual Artists. Visual arts part of an extensive page of information and sources about women listed alphabetically by first name.
  
• Remedios Varo site Spanish female artist--See book in Herbst Library. Examples of some of her work..
  

Political Art

• Artist for Freedom: Library of Congress exhibit of the works of Arthur Szyk (1894 - 1951), one America's leading political artists during World War II. He produced hundreds of anti-Axis illustrations and cartoons in aid of the Allied war effort. He also created art in the service of human rights and civil liberties.
• Poster Art from World War II: Powers of Persuasion "Guns, tanks, and bombs were the principal weapons of World War II, but there were other, more subtle, forms of warfare as well. Words, posters, and films waged a constant battle for the hearts and minds of the American citizenry just as surely as military weapons engaged the enemy."
• Last Expressions: Art from Auschwitz
  The Block Museum at Northwestern University features the art created by prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau during their incarceration during the Holocaust. Art browsable by media, artist, or location. Biographies of the artists explain how they came to create the artwork. Includes a tour of the site.

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Printmaking

• Photographs and prints from the Library of Congress Archive.
  
• ArtServe Australian National University server with access to 16,000 images. Excellent Main menu at bottom of homepage with links to Islamic architecture, prints by artist, etc.
• Printmakers, A to Z This virtual exhibition from Georgetown University provides access to different types of prints by many artists. Site includes etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts.

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Ceramics

• Ceramics: Virtual ceramics exhibit
  
• Greek Vases

Sculpture

• Greek Sculpture
• Interview with Raymond Carver about Cathedral (See English web page for additional information and resources)

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Photography

• Ansel Adams exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art.
• Stereoscopic Photo Gallery
• Photographs and prints from the Library of Congress Archive.
• Photographs of the Civil War from the American Memory Collection by Mathew Brady.
• California Museum of Photography at the University of California Riverside Very extensive collection of photographs with links to other sites.
• American Museum of Photography Exhibitions
• Jazz Photographs William P. Gottlieb: Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress.
• Media History Project: of the University of Minnisota. Includes history of all media. Photography section

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General Performing Arts Resources

• New York Public Library for the Performing Arts "World's most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections..." Includes Rogers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.
  
• Oideon Performing Arts Online magazine
  
• Performing Arts directory of Yahoo. Performing Arts, Theatre, Dance, Music

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Dance

• Dance Manuals "An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920 " from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress

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Film

• The Internet Movie Database

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Music

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Theater

• Federal Theatre Project Productions of Macbeth, Power, and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress. Includes playscripts, production books, set designs, administrative records, articles, and more.
• The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 from the American Memory site of the Library of Congress. Includes Houdini, Yiddish playscripts, English playscripts, theater playbills and programs, motion pictures, photographs, theater posters and other documents.
• PALM San Francisco Perfoming Arts library and Museum
• Costumes Costumes galore from prehistoric times to the present. Includes the history of costumes worldwide, presents pictures and information about Ethnic costumes for costumes from all over the world. Timeslines and great links.

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Last update 14 January 2007.