LibGuides: AR 250 Prehistoric Art to Gothic Art: Websites

Selection of Art Internet Sites

AHDS Visual Arts
“VADS is the online resource for visual arts. It has provided services to the academic community for 11 years and has built up a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images.”
Artchive
Selection of art history writings, theory and criticism, galleries, and art links.
Artcyclopedia
“Comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.”
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
“Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.”
Ceramics Today
Links to hundreds of web sites dealing with ceramics and pottery, including many individual potters.
Ditto.com
“Provides visual search of the web using pictures.”
Impressionists
Combines information from A&E Television and the Gale Biography Resource Center. Links to Impressionism history on History.com as well as a study guide.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Check out “Educational Resources” and their "Timeline of Art History.”
Museum of Modern Art
Covers collections, resources, links, and more.
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)-- the collection:
Search or Tour their collection.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Browse or search their collection. Check out the Research & Scholars section.
Smithsonian Archives of American Art
“Since 1954, the Archives has collected roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.”
Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)
“Search the holdings of the Smithsonian’s archival, library and specialized research collections.”
The Web Gallery of Art
“Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850).”
Vincent van Gogh: the Complete Works
“The definitive reference for information about the life and work of Vincent van Gogh.”

AR 250 Prehistoric Art to Gothic Art: Websites

Selection of Art Internet Sites

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