Art History

• ArtLex - Art Dictionary  - Reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art education. Definitions of thousands of terms, illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources.
• About.com: Art History - Online community and resource guide for the artists and art periods of the past.
• Andres Blaisten Museum - Masterpieces of Mexican Art from the XIX and XX Centuries from private collections.
• ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - Offering biographical information and 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 most significant art work produced in modern history and their impact on life today and in the coming millennium.
• Art Historians' Guide to the Movies - A record by Craig Eliason of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies, arranged by period.
• Art History at Loggia - Explores the history of art with information about artists, styles, and periods. Includes resources and reference materials about art history, searchable database, and forums.
• Art History with Michelli - The Art Browser divides categories of resources by time period and their movements.
• Art in the Picture.com - Offers an introduction to visual art history. Famous artist's galleries and biographies, movements, major museums.
• Artists and Ancestors - Exhibtion of miniature portraits from XVIII - XX century, information about artists and sitters.
• ArtMagick - Virtual art gallery displaying paintings and poetry from art movements of the 19th and 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, and other artworks.
• Carol Gerten's Virtual Art Museum - Broad gallery that includes biographies and images for hundreds of well-known American, French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Japanese artists.
• Christian Art and Artists from Late Medieval to Modern - Examples illustrating the development of Christian art, from the Christian Traveler's Guides.
• Delineavit et Sculpsit - The Internet stepping stone for all those interested in Old Master prints and drawings: publications, events, links to the world's main print rooms, and the periodical Delineavit et Sculpsit.
• Department of History of Art, Belgrade - History of art in Yugoslavia - related material: texts, images, projects.
• The Getty Provenance Index - Collects and disseminates information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art.
• HuntFor Art History - Quick reference for all periods in the art history, images and links.
• Know Your Art - Database for the study of the history of art from Utah University. Images and data about works of architecture, sculpture, and painting from prehistory to the 20th century.
• Lübeck's Dance of Death - Dances of Death in Lübeck, Tallinn, Berlin and Denmark. Pictures, books and primary sources. Several books are reproduced.
• Mark Harden's Artchive - An art archive with thousands of images that are accessed through an alphabetical list of artist's names and art styles. Covers every style of art from ancient and African to impressionist and modern.
• Mexican Masks - Collection of authentic danced masks from Mexico and Guatemala with discussions and comments on the art of collecting and other curious observations. Antique masks, patination techniques, insect infestation, techniques of collecting.
• Mona Lisa Images for a Modern World - A site exploring the enduring fascination of the Mona Lisa, including history, parodies, homages and comments from site visitors.
• New Deal Art During the Great Depression - Information and photographs of extant WPA/New Deal art, focusing on Illinois, Ohio, and California. There are extensive biographies, a timeline of the New Deal, and other odd bits of information.
• OCAIW: Art Images on the Web - Orazio Centaro's site. Includes a long alphabetical listing of artists and includes links to images that reside on both the OCAIW site and other artist sites on the Web.
• Resources in Art History for Graduate Students - This newsletter lists grants, fellowships, internships, conferences, publication and study abroad opportunities for graduate students in art history and closely related areas.
• Sister Wendy's American Collection - From PBS - Sister Wendy Beckett, nun and art commentator, takes viewers on a tour through six of America's greatest art museums.
• University of Texas - Byzantine Medieval Hypertexts - Discussing the theory of hypertext and its medieval application in Byzantine manuscripts, using examples from the Theodore Psalter, a manuscript created in 1066.
• WebMuseum: Famous Paintings - Comprehensive and well organized site that offers rich images and concise historical context for artists and art movements ranging from Gothic and Renaissance to Impressionism and Pop.
• World Art Treasures - Based on the Jacques-Edouard Berger collection of images of art objects and essays devoted to the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe.

History of Artists

• All About Artists - Short biographies, image galleries, and timelines of a small selection of painters.
• ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.
• Art and Civilization - Collection of images of the famous artists from Giotto to Duchamp.
• Art History at Loggia - 'Artists at a Glance' features a select group of some of the most important artists who have shaped the history of art.
• Art-Platform.com - Offers images of the works of famous painters.
• Artquizz - Test your knowledge of all periods of Art, painters and painting with quizzes, games and puzzles. Site aimed for all levels of knowledge, including children pages. Visitors are invited to participate in the making of new pages, in English and in French.
• AskART.com American Artist Reference - Information more than 52,000 American artists including biographies, bodies of work, valuation and appraisal techniques, auction records, publications, and artists representatives as well as literature and museum information for American painters and sculptors.
• Brain-Juice - Well-written biographies about 20th century art, film, history, literature, and music. All biographies are written by students at the best U.S. universities, with the strongest concentration from Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
• Distinguished Artists Series - Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization.
• Famous Painter - Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works.
• Four American Painters: Eakins, Homer, Hopper, Sargent - A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent.
• Giorgio Vasari - The Lives of the Artists - An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text.
• The Grand Tour: Venice & Rome in the 18th Century - Oglethorpe University Museum exhibition of 18th century landscape & veduta paintings of Venice & Rome. This important exhibit included works by Canaletto, Panini & Ricci.
• Last Expression - Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz.
• Life of an Artist - Biographies and Galleries - Includes the text of Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists," indexed by artist with selected specific artist galleries.
• Olga's Gallery - Large collection of images of the works of many artists, with biographies and historical comments. Sorted by alphabet, topic, movement, and nationality/country. Offers a newsletter, and archives are available.
• The Smart-Ass Guide to Art - Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso.
• United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art - Senate document detailing the portraits and sculptures in the United States Senate.
• Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, and guided tours.
• WetCanvas: Virtual Museum - A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters.
• Women Artists in History - Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.

History of Photography

• About Photography: Nudes 1920-1940 - Consists of on the history of nude photography from 1920 to 1940, emphasizing the roles of the famous master photographers. No images.
• Albumen Photographs - Presents the art and science of albumen printing, contemporary research, conservation and treatment of images.
• American Museum of Photography - Covers daguerreotypes to modernism. Research center features a guide early photo processes, book reviews and information on preserving/protecting valuable photographs.
• Arab Foundation for the Image - A non-profit association that collaborates with Elysée Foundation in Lausanne to promote photography in the Middle East and the North Africa by locating, collecting and preserving the photographic heritage of that region.
• The Big Six Portrait Photographers - Monographs on six professional portrait photographers from the turn-of-the-century.
• Bosse, Henry Peter: Photographs of the Mississippi River - Collection of Bosse's photographs of the Mississippi (1883-1892) with an essay by Michael Conner who rediscovered his photographs in the 1980s.
• Central Pacific Railroad - Has a photographic history museum; also stereoviews of the first transcontinental railroad.
• City-Gallery.com - Information on photography, family photographs and images, and genealogy. Focus is on 19th century photography.
• Cuarterolo Archive - The Cuarterolo archive is an image bank focused on 19th century Argentine and Latin American photography that houses over 5000 historic photographs.
• Cut & Paste - A History Of Photomontage - Covering the artists involved in photomontage in the Berlin Dada movement, 1980s politics, and the present day.
• Early Visual Media - History of visual Media, photography pre-cinema prestidigitation danse macabre optical illusions.
• Finding Photographers - A worldwide index of the books and websites that list photographers and when they worked.
• Georgian Museum of Photography - Virtual museum of images from photography, including portraits, architecture, cultural and historical monuments.
• Historic Photo Archive - Kodachrome dating guide for vintage slides.
• A History of Photography - Contains an extensive history, from earliest times to the 1920s. Includes information on all significant photographers with biographical data.
• History of Photography Timeline - A detailed timeline of photography from ancient times to the present.
• Index of UK photographers up to c1950 - Indexes and links for UK photographers, county by county, for the 19th and early 20th century.
• Lafayette Negative Archive - Catalogue of vintage photographs made by the Lafayette studio of London, containing images made between 1887 and the 1930s, categorized by subject. Has explanatory articles.
• Latin American Photography 1840-1920. M & M Cuarterolo's Collection - Large selection of early images of Argentina and other Latin American countries and information on the photographers active in the region between 1840 and 1920.
• Magic Lanterns - Description of the medium plus information on optical systems, components, lanterns types and slide identification.
• The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura - Many facets of the camera obscura (dark room); the origin of the photographic camera, its place in art, culture and education,vintage instruments,images, photographs, and working camera obscuras are included.
• Mathew J. Steffens - Steffens was THE photographer to Chicago's first "Gold Coast" residents...the richest of the rich. Commodore Steffens, as he was known because of his steam yachting and yacht club presidency, was one of Chicago's foremost society photographer from 1872 to the 1910's.
• Midley History of Photography - Presents essays by R. Derek Wood on the history of early photography, the daguerreotype and diorama.
• Painting and Photography - Some notes on the history of photography, mostly concerning the relationship between painting and photography.
• Photica Project - Contains information and articles on historical photographers and groups.
• Photo Revue - All about Czech and Slovak photography, history, theory, reviews, profiles.
• Photographer Nicephore Niepce - Dedicated to the History of Photography from its origins by French scientist and inventor Nicephore Niepce. Niepce discovered the process known as Heliography.
• Photographs: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Images, history, and technical information about their extensive collection of photographs.
• Photography in the 1840s - About Photography - Comparing the Calotype and the Daguerreotype, the first Welsh photograph, Irish pioneers, and French advances in the art of photography.
• Pinhole Photography - History of pinhole photography, including theory and construction details.
• Tintypes and Daguerreotypes - Article defines what tintypes and daguerreotypes are, the history of the processes, the sizes they came in, and the years they were popular.
• The Weston Exposure Meter Site - Site dedicated to the Weston Exposure Meter from the earliest days to the Euromaster 3. Includes Photos, information and instruction books, and history of the company and its founder.
• Women in Photography Archive - Focuses on the role of women in photography. Includes essays on women photographers and an online gallery.

Online Courses

• Art and Film History Course - Online Course by Yve Alain Bois, European Graduate School. Description of the courses, online registration. Password required for full access.
• Art Workshop Project Pages - Art history and technology lessons for secondary education.
• Global Arts - Classes, books, exhibits, images, links, vitae created by Dr. Maude S. Wahlman of the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Entry to class websites requires password.

Periods and Movements

• Abstract Art and Artists - Learn about the artists and styles of the abstract art movement including Cubism, Neoplasticism, and Abstract Expressionism.
• ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.
• Art at the End of the 20th Century - Article by Max Podstolski.
• Art Bank - Data-bank on ancient art from the 10th to the 18th century.
• Art Images for College Teaching - AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community. Arranged by geography and period.
• Art Movements and Periods - Historical art movements arranged in dictionary format for easy digestion.
• Art Movements Directory - Concise reference guide to the major art movements and periods, view by name or date.
• Art Resources - Essays on main art movements with images gallery and articles about famous artists.
• Centurions - BBC Radio 3 Centurions will feature 100 of the humanities hit makers of the twentieth century.
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek - Tours by Sybject - Virtual tour of manuscripts and illumination, engravings, woodcuts, drawings, and religious works from the National Library of the Netherlands.
• Modern Art Periods - Short description of the art movements of the 19th and 20th century.
• National Portrait Gallery - Eye Contact - A celebration of masterpieces on paper highlighting famed Americans of the past century by legendary artists. Includes large reproductions and audio commentary from the exhibition's curator.
• 19th century art @ Heart's Ease - The classical tradition, romanticism, impressionism and pre-raphaelite movements in 19th century art.
• Timeline of Art History - Displays objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections in geographical and chronological context.
• Vision - Vision of the Art of the 19th and 20th Century.

Reproductions

• Abacus Art Gallery - Fine art reproductions. Oil on canvas. A large selection of modern and impressionist, search either by artist or genre.
• Allen Ye Printmaker - Produces handmade replicas of Renaissance woodcut designs found in the first printed books and from single-issue sheets.
• Art Banshee - Gallery/catalog featuring items crafted by the artists: licensed reproductions, those with historical significance and educational potential.
• Artistic Decor - Your source for framed oil reproductions by the "Old Masters". Limited edition prints, and original oils paintings.
• Art-wave International Inc. - Offers custom framed hand painted oils based on the works of the old masters with a retail showroom in Van Nuys California.
• Berlin Design - Produces copies of a variety of works from many eras and locales.
• Classic Corners - Limited edition and inspirational prints.
• Collage Image Database - Historical works depicting London, categorized by theme, with prints available in a variety of sizes.
• eMuseumStore.com - Offers a range of items including sculpture, prints, and decorative wares.
• Expo-Shop - Posters and calendars featuring masterpieces, miniature sculpture reproductions, and limited edition prints.
• Gallery Art - Fine art; Provide a wide variety of artists works including Max, Warhol, Lichtenstien, Agam, and Britto. Animation cells and posters also in stock.
• Hang De Lee Arts - Hang De Lee Arts Corp., Ltd. is an oil paintings reproducers and exporters in China, owning freely the right of exporting & importing products all over the world.
• Illusions Gallery, - Prints on canvas, and reproductions of masterpieces.
• The Klimt Collection - Offers reproductions of paintings by Gustav Klimt from the Klimt Ateliers. Request prices online.
• Master Art Reproduction - A Dutch based shop for reproductions of paintings by a selection of old masters.
• Masterpiece Paintings Gallery - Art reproductions of oil paintings by famous painters and original art by Asian artists
• Mexican Aztec and Pre-Columbian Art - These are authentic replicas of the best pieces in the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City and other Museums around the world.
• Mezzo-Mondo - Reproduction oil paintings of French, English, Classical, Renaissance and Impressionist masters, including still lifes, animals and portraits.
• Micronex S. A. - Reproductions of classic works of art in the forms of decorative panels, glass and tapestry. Pictures, information.
• Mostly Monet Collection - Framed Artagraph canvas impressions.
• A Painting Called - Copy of Mondriaan's "Victory Boogie Woogie" now for sale.
• Paleolithic Art Gallery On-Line - Artist Sam Deuel produces modern interpretations of human figures and animals painted on cave walls by artists of the Paleolithic period. Online form for purchasing enquiries.
• Prestige Fine Art - Masters at original art replicas, have any painting re-created at an affordable price.
• Scarab House - San Diego based artists Patrick Barney, Ron Wheeler Dean, Caroline Don, Greg Eng & Robert Freeman working in Bronze, Clay, Etching, Metalsmithing, Oil, Pen & Ink, Relief.
• Soho Art - A wide selection of reproduction art also contains biographical information on the artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempcka.
• Statues.com - Manufacturer of white marble museum reproductions.
• Talaria Enterprises - A selection of reproduction products, comprising jewelry, tapestries, antiques and artifacts. The site is browsable by category, artist or culture.

Stolen Art

• The Art Loss Register - Operates a permanent international database of stolen and missing works of art, antiques and valuables, to assist law enforcement agencies in the battle against art theft.
• Art Theft - Most Wanted Art - Search for the world's most wanted art.
• CBC Indepth: Art Thefts - Indepth examination of some of the world's most famous artworks that have been stolen, including audio and video links to reports.
• Find Stolen Art - Database aiming to assist UK police in the recovery and return of stolen antiques and to enable auction houses, collectors and dealers to exercise due diligence.
• Illicit Antiquities Research Centre (IARC) - At University of Cambridge to research and highlight damage caused by looting of archaeological sites. Publishes periodical Culture Without Context. Information on latest news, events, information, legal conventions, resources.
• International Archive of Stolen Artefacts - A database with close-up photographs of objects. An independent resource dedicated to the retrieval of stolen artefacts through maximum publicity.
• The Iraq War and Archaeology - Francis Deblauwe gathers articles and information about the impact of the war on the archaeological remains in Iraq, including the losses from looting.
• Looting Matters - Studies by Christopher Chippindale and David Gill of the University of Wales Swansea on the material and intellectual consequences of collecting antiquities, with related links.
• Looting Question Bibliography - Hugh Jarvis lists Internet and published resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting.
• Museum Security Network: Art Crime - News reports of cultural property incidents, such as art theft, looting of art in wartime, fire and forgery worldwide.
• Object ID - Site describes rationale, use and contacts for Object ID, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities to combat theft.
• Price of Age - An electronic dissertation on the illicit trade of antiquities by Andrew Cranwell.
• Saving Futures - Charlie Phillips investigates issues of cultural heritage management and preservation in India and Nepal through interviews nad research.
• Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft - Librarian provides a bibliography and list of Internet resources on theft of antiquities.
• Stolen Art - This Belgian initiative aims to assist the police in Belgium and elsewhere in the recovery and return of stolen antiques. Register stolen art pieces. Newsletters.
• Stolen Property or Finders Keepers? - Dede Tisone-Bartels provides teacher's resources for considering the true ownership of works of art which have been taken from their place of origin to museums and collections around the world.
• Your Brush With The Law - Charles Vincent Sabba looks at some famous art crimes, forensic art and the art scene in New York.
• BBC: Stolen Turner Paintings Found - Two Turner paintings from the Tate galleries' collection, stolen while on display in Germany eight years ago, are found. (December 20, 2002)
• Gang Caught with 200,000 Artefacts - Giles Tremlett reports in the Guardian that Spanish police have captured 100 archaeological robbers in an operation that netted a vast haul of antiques up to 5,000 years old. (July 19, 2002)
• NYTimes.com - Thwarting Art Thieves on a Budget - Discusses problems of art theft during business hours and how museums and other facilities have responded. (May 29, 2002)
• Britain Leads Illicit Trade in Rare Books - The Guardian reports that Britain has become the centre for criminal traffick in ancient manuscripts and historic books. (June 10, 2001)
• Swiss Recover 10,000 Stolen Antiquities - Archaeology magazine feature article by Andrew Slayman on one of the largest recoveries of stolen art treasures. (September, 1998)
• Art Theft from Cyprus to Munich - Archaeology magazine feature article by Mark Rose on the looting of frescoes, mosaics and icons from churches in Northern Cyprus (April 20, 1998)
• Stolen Stones: The Modern Sack of Nineveh - Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites since the Gulf War. Illustrated feature by John M. Russell in Archaeology includes clickable map of the throne room suite. (December 30, 1996)