Arts Guide
Museums
Links to 200 of the world’s leading art museums.
A searchable online collection of cultural history; browse either by geography (North and Central America, Africa, Asia, Pacific, South America) or through its exhibits (Intersections: World Arts/Local Lives; Fowler In Focus).
The Frick - Virtual Tour
A virtual tour, includes Lucas Cranach The Elder Magnified.
Links to brick and mortar institutions, a section that specializes in design and advertising, and featured exhibits, galleries and shows hosted on other sites.
A virtual museum of the most renown Uruguayan art.
Interesting interface lets you zoom into any of 3500 art pieces in their collection.
Smithsonian/American Art Museum
Closed for renovation until summer 2008 (Archives of American Art is a digital collection of 6000+ photographs - artists, letters, sketches and more.)
Lawrence University’s digital collection includes over 1500 images; specialized in prints and print making as well as ancient coins.
Internet Sites
The Art History Resources guide to Africa; the Africa Image Library; Yale University’s African Art Gallery; the Hamill Gallery of African Art; University of Michigan site; Tribal Arts; Segy Gallery Authentic Aftica; Merton Simpson Gallery; Google’s Contemporary African Art.
Site covers the Avant Garde from 1900 onward; including Dada, Situationists and fluxus.
Site is dedicated to art history: Erotica, paintings that changed the world, origins of typography and graphic design, even an illustrated dictionary of art and artists. Art of the 20th Century? Pre-Columbian? Post-Modernism?
Extensive archives of illustration art.
PBS Series Art In The 21st Century explores contemporary visual arts and artists; 72 featured artists; 300+ video clips.
History of art by movement.
Guide to 8500 artists, 2300 sites and 180000 works of art.
Art Deco Architecture at Decopix; Flick’r has 11000+ Art Deco pics; you can look at Art Deco objects in detail at the Victoria and Albert Museum; and finally, Art Deco Illustrations.
Artlex has over 3600 terms for art/visual culture and thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, quotations and cross-references.
Art Images for college teaching is a browsable, searchable database of over 2,000 images.
Collection of art and poetry from after the Enlightenment to before modernism; extensive poetry section, but the main draw is their artists section.
Lawrence University site contains scans of more than 162 posters between 1880-1918.
A realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century.
A collection of Arabic, Persian and Ottoman calligraphy housed at the Library of Congress. Check out: Calligraphers of the Persian Tradition, Ottoman Calligraphers and their works, Qur’anic Fragments, and Noteworthy Items.
Step back into prerevolutionary France to explore the pastimes created by Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, in his role as resident entertainer at the court of the duke of Orléans. Take a virtual stroll courtesy of the Getty.
Online image database from the collections of the City of London Libraries and the Guildhall Art Gallery. Images cover the last five centuries. You can search by key word or browse by theme, artist/engraver, person or place.
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
Cardoff University database hosts over 800 wood engraved illustrations from Victorian texts.
Features 3 new artists each week (photographer, illustrator and designer).
Aim is to become world’s leading online resource for the history and practice of digital Fine Art.
Columbia University’s Digital Scriptorium is a large database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts; check out the highlights, then search the 5000 manuscripts.
Mieks site details the eggs that Karl Gustavovich Faberge made for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II between 1885-1917.
American landscape artist George Inness; influenced by both the Hudson River School and the Barbizon school.
This digital collection features “comic books affiliated with state and federal U.S. government agencies, as well as the UN and the EU.
Guide to human types; answers the question “If I needed to draw someone from this part of the world, what would I need to know about his or her physical characteristics?”
LA County Museum’s Islamic Art collection; manuscript illustration; calligraphy; glassware; architectural elements; art history.
Inside The White Cube, more writing, film and TV writing/direction, pioneer in conceptual art - attends his own wake.
Flash site is beautifully crafted to showcase the life and work of artist.
Mosaic History (Wiki)
Online Art Gallery
- Your Gallery free gallery for artists a la MySpace
- Stuart free student artist platform
Orazio Centaro’s Art Images on the Web
“The most complete catalogue of art images on the web.”
A web catalogue by UVA of Rembrandt paintings.
Cooper Hewitt exhibit Continuing Curve; objects that celebrate the joyful and liberating movement.
Selections of the master minimalist from the National Gallery of Art.
The complete works of Peter Paul Rubens; a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style and a pacifist in a world of warmongers.
The Tain Lithographs for Thomas Kinsella’s inspired version of The Táin Bó Cuailnge, the dramatic record of Ireland’s proto-historic past.
EssentialVermeer is everything to do about the Dutch master.
MOMA online site explores Van Gogh’s colors of the night.
Letters by the artist; also a weblog.
LA Public Library has a nice collection of vintage travel posters.
Site dedicated to visual poetry; such as bpNichol’s First Screening, the works of Anna Maria Uribe, and Strings by Dan Waber.
Visual Arts - No Revolution in Hyper Space.
A former insider laments the dumbing down of art museum websites. (Includes some terrific links to sites.)
A resource of visual arts, especially collections of historical art and design.
Virtual museum of 17000+ European paintings and sculptures of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850).
Fine art electronic cards
Interviews with artists to inspire aspiring artists; Anne P Smith, Chiho Aoshima, Dan May, Elias Tahan, Jesse Kanda are a few examples.
Photography
Online Photography - online.photography.com/
Shutterbug Magazine - shutterbug.net/