Art/Art History Subject Guide

"accessCeramics is a growing collection of images of contemporary ceramics by recognized artists. It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web."

Noting that its "mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the internet," Artcyclopedia claims to be definitive: "We have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. We have all started out by covering the biggest and best sites around and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours....We have now indexed 1200 art sites, and offer more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists." A number of artists and movements covered include multimedia presentations.

AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature.

"This database is an illustrated, descriptive index to the Artists’ Book Collection, located in the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Presently, the Artists’ Book Collection contains over 800 titles. The database indexes approximately 760 of those titles, over 500 of which have one to four images to visually represent the structure and/or content of the book."

Artport is the Whitney Museum's portal to net art and digital arts, and an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects. The site consists of five major areas: gate pages, commissions, exhibitions, resources, and the collection area.

Sponsored by Oxford University, this archive inclues images and textual resources from more than 20 archival databases, with specific focus on classical gems, pottery, antiquaria, and sculpture.

"CAA includes among its members those who by vocation or avocation are concerned about and/or committed to the practice of art, teaching, and research of and about the visual arts and humanities. Over 13,000 artists, art historians, scholars, curators, collectors, educators, art publishers, and other visual arts professionals are individual members. Another 2,000 university art and art history departments, museums, libraries, and professional and commercial organizations hold institutional memberships."

The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum provides access to a collection of images of primarily Greek ancient vases dating from 6,000 B.C. to 400 A.D. from more than 120 collections in 26 countries. This searchable database of digitized text and images, is browsable by country and museum, and searchable by fabric, technique, provenance and other aspects.

The Getty Research Portal is a free online search platform providing worldwide access to an extensive collection of digitized art history texts from a range of institutions. This multilingual and multicultural union catalog affords art historians and other researchers the ability to search and download complete digital copies of publications devoted to art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.

From the University of Iowa Libraries, a scholarly resource of primary materials on the Dada movement.

The Library of Congress's digital database includes images and texts on many aspects of United States history, culture, and society. Visitors new to the database may browse by topic, time period, geographic location, or type of material.

Online catalog for three New York City collections: the Frick Art Reference Library and the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

"The New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more."

Digital library offering access to primary texts, secondary sources, site plans, digital images, and maps. Also includes word study tools as well as extensive art and archaeology catalogs.

This web exhibit includes historical and factual information about the development of pigments. Individual pages for specific colors are included, along with images, recipes, and more detailed information about the development of specific pigments.

The Royal Asiatic Society's Digital Library provides free online access to some of our historic collections, for a worldwide audience. The site features archives, manuscripts, artwork, photographs, and more, from a variety of Asian cultures, as well as materials showing some of the ways Europeans have responded to Asia over the centuries.

"Spanning the centuries since the founding of America to the present day, the collections of the Archives of American Art comprise the largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. Contained in the over five thousand collections are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents, totaling roughly fourteen million items. The collections, combined with approximately three thousand interviews done for AAA's oral history program, and nearly one thousand photographs in AAA's Photographs of Artists Collections, are an endless treasure trove of raw material for art historians and scholars in other fields to explore."

This is a dedicated image-server maintained by the Stoa Consortium for the use of scholars who would like to share, on an open access basis, their digital photographs and digital videos related to Classics, Classical Archaeology, and the classical tradition.

The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection...The basic structure of the Timeline of Art History is both chronological and geographical. Each timeline page includes representative art from the Museum's collection, a chart of time periods, a map of the region, an overview, and a list of key events.