General Art Resources
- All About Art
All About Art is a poster catalog that is useful for art reference - search by Artist, Title, Subject, Key Word.
- ArtLex
Easy-to-use art dictionary "for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education."
- ArtSource
Annotated links to hundreds of art sites, arranged by subject. Very complete and well-organized.
- COLOURlovers
"COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends." Offers palettes, news, articles, and interesting facts about color today and in history.
- Lifehacker: How to Read a Painting
"I’ll show you a quick way to approach and appreciate a painting, although the ideas here can be applied to works in other mediums (sculpture, drawing, even architecture and fashion) quite easily."
- Making Sense of Modern Art
"Offers an extensive and engaging guide to modern and contemporary works .... rich-media format enables you to 'zoom in' on full-screen details of individual artworks, explore excerpts from archival videos and films, and listen to commentary by artists, art historians, critics, and collectors.
- Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
"Sponsored by the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan."
- Sister Wendy's American Collection
Tie-in to the PBS series about American art.
- WB Originals
Warner Brothers has produced this site devoted to cartoons and animation techniques. (requires Flash)
- World Wide Arts Resources
"Gateway for online arts information: artists, museums, galleries, quality art, art history, arts education, antiques, dance, theater, and more."
- Your Daily Art
An art history blog, featuring a differnt piece of art each day.
- Art History Resources on the Web
Award-winning site with extensive links to art history pages, covering major historical periods, references resources, museums, and prints and photography.
- Art History Research Centre
"The AHRC is the first and foremost tool for art historical research on the internet. It shares key resources and methods of online research so that art historians can find the resources relevant to their work."
- American Vintage Blues: History of Fashion
Starting with 1900-1910, this site explores fashions decade by decade through the 20th century.
- Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to Art of the Ancient World
"An interactive journey through the collection of ancient art at The Art Institute of Chicago."
- The Costume Gallery
Enormous site hosting over 1000 web pages and 2,500 images of fashion and costume.
- The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920
"Presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States."
- Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design
Website to accompany da Vinci exhibition; includes biographical timeline, exerpts from da Vinci's notebooks, and animations of da Vinci sketches.
- The Last Supper in Detail
16-billion pixel zoomable digital version of Da Vinci's famous mural.
- Online Picasso Project
Biography, artworks, and huge collection of links to sites about Picasso and his work online.
- Thais.it
From a university in Italy, art history links to Italian sculpture, architecture, Italian cities, and special exhibits.
- Timeline of Art History
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
- Winslow Homer
Exhibit on American artist Winslow Homer from the Art Institute of Chicago.
