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WebMuseum: Famous Paintings - A comprehensive & well organized site that offers rich images & concise historical context for artists & art movements ranging from Gothic & Renaissance to Impressionism & Pop.

ArtLex - Art Dictionary   - Reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, & art education. Definitions of thousands of terms, illustrations, quotations, & links to other resources.

About.com: Art History - Online community & resource guide for the artists & art periods of the past.

Allexperts Art History Q&A - Art historians & other volunteer experts answer all your detailed one-on-one questions.

ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - An art history resource offering biographical information & high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.

Art Cellar Exchange: Millenium Archive - The Art Cellar Exchange's alterego, Arty, looks back at some of the nearly allsignificant art work produced in modern history & their impact on life today & in the coming millennium.

Art Historians' Guide to the Movies - Not really art history, but an interesting record of appearances of & references to famous works of art & architecture in the movies.

Art History at Loggia - Explores art history with information about artists, styles, & periods. Includes resources & reference materials about art history, searchable database, & forums.

Art History Search - This site examines the importance of art history through articles & features of criticism, activities, & education as well as art news & significant art history links.

Art History with Michelli - The Art Browser divides categories of resources by time period & their movements.

Art of Empire - Features academic information about the art, architecture, & backgrounds of the Ottoman, Papal, Incan, Aztec, Persian, & Mughal empires.

ArtMagick - Virtual art gallery displaying paintings & poetry from art movements of the 19th & 20th centuries with an emphasis on displaying works of art by artists who have been forgotten or neglected in recent years.

ArtMuseum.net - Internet-based art museum experience, includes specialized exhibitions with emphasis on background information not normally available to the public.

Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art - Exploring the aural aura of masterworks as found in the sounds in the immediate locations of highly regarded paintings, sculptures, & other artworks.

Carol Gerten's Virtual Art Museum - A broad art history gallery that includes biographies & images for hundreds of well-known American, French, Spanish, Dutch, German & Japanese artists.

Christian Art & Artists from Late Medieval to Modern - Examples of Christian art & artists illustrate the development of Christian art, from the Christian Treveller's Guides.

Delineavit et Sculpsit - The Internet stepping stone for all those interested in Art History & Old Master prints & drawings: publications, events, links to the world's main print rooms, & the periodical Delineavit et Sculpsit.

Department of History of Art, Belgrade - History of art in Yugoslavia - related material: texts, images, projects.

Dictionary of Art Terms - Not an in-depth dictionary, but has some helpful information.

The Getty Provenance Index - Collects & disseminates information related to the history of collecting & the provenance of individual works of art.

HuntFor Art History - Quick reference for all periods in Art History, images & links.

Images of Feeling - Offering images & a few biographies on a number of 19th & 20th century artists.

Italian Renaissance - Short over view of the period & biographies & images of the major artists.

Know Your Art - A big database for the study of the art history from Utah University. Images & data about works of architecture, sculpture, & painting from prehistory to the 20th century.

Mark Harden's Artchive - An art archive with thousands of images that are accessed through an alphabetical list of artist's names & art styles. Covers every style of art from ancient & African to impressionist & modern.

Mona Lisa Images for a Modern World - A site exploring the enduring fascination of the Mona Lisa, including art history, parodies, homages & comments from site visitors.

New Deal/WPA Art History - This site has information & photos of extant WPA/New Deal art, focusing on Illinois, Ohio, & California. There are extensive biographies, a timeline of the New Deal, & other odd bits of information.

OCAIW: Art Images on the Web - Orazio Centaro's site. Includes a long alphabetical listing of artists & includes links to images that reside on both the OCAIW site & other artist sites on the Web.

Ouroboros - A worm or serpent with its tail in its mouth, symbolizing completion, perfection & totality, the endless round of existence. Images & links to images of examples from various periods & cultures.

The Piero Project - ECIT - Electronic Compendium of Images & Text.

Resources in Art History for Graduate Students - This newsletter lists grants, fellowships, internships, conferences, publication & study abroad opportunities for graduate students in art history & closely related areas.

Sister Wendy's American Collection - From PBS - Sister Wendy Beckett, nun & Art History commentator, takes viewers on a tour through six of America's greatest art museums.

Virtual Ukiyo-e - Alexander Nisbets 's collection of Ukiyo-e (images of the Floating World).

White on White - Ongoing documentation of art history & the history of paintings that are a shade of white, & the motivation of the artists who paint them.

World Art Treasures - Based on the Jacques-Edouard Berger collection of images of art objects & essays devoted to art history & the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe.


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