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Fine Arts

 
Museums (14)
 

  Archives of American Art -  http://www.aaa.si.edu/
The Smithsonian Institution's American art history site.  A growing digital collection allows online access to many of the AAA collections and exhibits.
  Artcyclopedia  http://www.artcyclopedia.com
An index of images from 2,300 art sites and links to an estimated 180,000 works by 8,500 artists.  You can search by artist's name, title of work, or museum.  Or, you may browse by name, medium, subject, nationality, or a list of women artists.  The site also includes links to art news, Web sites, art museums, and sellers.
  Art Images for College Teaching -  http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=aict&page=index
A database of images categorized in historical/style periods.
  The Art History Research Centre -  http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/
A good beginning place for searching art history over the World Wide Web.
  The Mother of All Art History Link Pages -  http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
Had its beginnings at a 1995 University of Michigan workshop for art historians using computers.
  Sculptor.Org -  http://www.sculptor.org
A comprehensive resource for sculptors.
  Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance -  http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg15/gg15-main1.html
Offers seven paintings from the last quarter of the century of the 1400s with an overview of the period.
  The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery -  http://www.vggallery.com/
An impressive site with images of over 4,000 of Van Gogh's works.  The site also includes a biography with references, chronology of his life and works, and sources for further study.

 
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  Art Guide: The Art Lover's Guide to Britain and Ireland -  http://www.artguide.org/
Museums, artists, and exhibits.
  Cleveland Museum of Art -  http://www.clemusart.com/index.html
 
  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -  http://www.thinker.org/
 
  The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library -  http://www.frick.org
A collection of Western European art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century that industrialist Henry Clay Frick bequeathed to the public.
  The Getty Museum -  http://www.getty.edu/museum
 
  Los Angeles Museum of Art -  http://www.lacma.org
 
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art -  http://www.metmuseum.org
 
  Museum of Modern Art -  http://www.moma.org/
A valuable resource for introductory research with its glimpses of recent exhibits, information about the departments of the Museum, and numerous links.
  National Gallery of Art -  http://www.nga.gov/collection/
 
  The National Gallery of Art: Index of American Design -  http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm
This index consists of more than 17,000 watercolors owned by the National Gallery.
  The Rembrandt House Museum -  http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/
Exhibitions from the house in Breestraat, Amsterdam, where Rembrandt lived during his most successful years.
  The Saint Louis Art Museum -  http://www.slam.org/
The official Web site of the oldest publically supported art museum in the country and one of the country's top ten most-visited museums.
  Tate Modern -  http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
Britain's national museum of modern art.
  Yale University Art Gallery -  http://www.yale.edu/artgallery/
The Web site of the oldest university art museum in North America.