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ART RESOURCES

ART HISTORY

FAMOUS ARTISTS

MUSEUMS / COLLECTIONS

University of Wisconsin: a gallery of images of collected works from prehistoric times through the early Renaissance.

Famous American Artists

Brief biographical annotations and a few representative works for several thousand American artists.

Art Cyclopedia:
Art Search Engine

Art on the Web Portal: Boston College

A large comprehensive collection of links for the study of art and art history including resources for art history courses.

Art Net

An art portal giving access to more than 16,000 artists' biographical essays from the Grove Dictionary of Art.

Art Museums in Great Britain and Ireland

The Art Guide helps you search for famous art masterpieces in museum collections throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Best of History Portal Art History Sites

Approximately 30 links to art and art history sites selected and rated by the creators of Best of History Web Sites, an award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts.

Yahoo Directory to the Masters

Yahoo lists over 900 web sites about artistic masters.

Museums of Folk Art

Ten links from the Society of the Folk Arts for museum collections that focus on the folk arts.

Art History Resources University of Delaware

A research pathfinder from the University of Delaware Library that organizes links to art history resources.

DMOZ directory to artists' biographies

The DMOZ directory is similar to the Yahoo directory with a listing for famous women artists in history.

Art History Resources

About.com lists links to web sites about topics under intense study by current professors and writers of art history works.

Web Museum's Artist Index

A Parisian site that lists biographies for artistic masters, mostly French and European painters.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Home page to the art museum for information on current exhibits, museum policies and membership.

Voice of the Shuttle: Modern and Contemporary Art

An all-inclusive web portal for art students with links to historical studies, journals, e-zines, and image galleries.

ArtBlogs 4 U

Blogs allow students to correspond with contemporary artists.

Virtual Art Museums

An international directory to web pages for the world's foremost museums: including museums for curiosities.

Artist's Toolkit

Artcyclopedia

Metropolitan
Museum of Art
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ART RESOURCES
PAINTING	MEDIA	PHOTOGRAPHY
About.com: Oil Painting	Encarta: Sculpture	Nikon
About.com: Painting with Acryllics	Printmaking	Digital Photography Tips
About.com: Watercolours	Ceramic Arts	Kodak
About.com: Pastels	Woodworking	About Photography
About.com: Stencils	Fibre Arts	How to Take Photographs
About.com: Fabric Painting	Basketry Web Portal	FotoInfo

ART DATABASES

Use the Pennsylvania Power Library for the Grove Art Online database of the Grove Dictionary of Art. Click on the Power Library logo in the upper right corner of this page. PA Power Library data bases are available for home use through the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Search Art Index Retrospective (1920-1984) for articles in art magazines archived at the Free Library of Philadelphia. This is a database service that requires a library card and PIN.

Art Abstracts is an art resource for obtaining documents for artistic studies from the Free Library of Philadelphia. This database service requires a library card and PIN.

Art Image Collection is a free use database of images with locator references to art history textbooks.