LibGuides: Art History: Websites

Web sites

Artcyclopedia
Art Discovery Group Catalogue
Launched in May 2014, the Art Discovery Group Catalogue (ADGC) offers an art-focused research experience within the OCLC WorldCat environment.
Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
The Art Historians' Guide to the Movies is a record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies.
Art History Resources on the Web
Resources compiled by Professor Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe at Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Art Libraries Society of North America
Art Story: Modern Art Movements, Artists, Ideas and Topics

The Art Story website is modern art history education that is optimized for online learning. We clearly and graphically analyze modern art movements and artists
Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN)
BCIN is the Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property. It contains nearly 200 000 citations, including the first 34 volumes of the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA), published between 1955 and 1997.
Dia Art Foundation
Dictionary of Art Historians
A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art.
Islamic Art and Architecture
Massurrealism
MET Links
Art related links compiled by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art on YouTube
The MET's YouTube channel
National Summit on Arts Journalism
A joint project of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the National Arts Journalism Program.
New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)
NYARC is a collaboration of the research libraries of four leading art museums in New York City: The Brooklyn Museum, The Frick Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Smarthistory
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook.
Smithsonian Images
An archive of over 2.5 million contemporary and historic images from the Smithsonian museums. This site offers the opportunity to research and purchase prints or digital files of these images.
Voice of the Shuttle (VoS)
Links to arts resources compiled by the University of California, Santa Barbara

Image Collections

Ad*Access Project
Duke University's image database of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
American Museum of Photography
Online exhibitions and research center.
Art cyclopedia
Art Institute of Chicago - Online Collection
Provides access to over 33,000 works and basic information about works of art from the Institute's collection.
Atlas: Database of exhibits
Atlas provides online access to 35,000 works of art exhibited in the Louvre, including the basic information displayed on labels accompanying works in the museum, and authoritative commentary and analysis by the curators.
British Museum Collection Database
Over one million digital images of objects in the collection of the British Museum.
Digital Images Collections Wiki
The Digital Images Collections Wiki is a resource of Free- and Fair-Use digital image collections that are available for anyone to use for personal or educational purposes.
Galaxy of Images
Digital images of books and manuscripts in the collections of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Getty Museum
Images of the Getty Museum's collections
Guggenheim Images
Browse for photographs of the art collection, installation views of exhibitions, images of architecture around the world, and original historic photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright and the construction of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Provides access to approximately 1.2 million images of works in the collection of the Library of Congress.
Library of Congress American Memory Project
American Memory provides open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Collection Database
The Collection Database is a searchable database of artworks and related materials from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Museum of Modern Art - Online Collection
MoMA's online exhibitions and collections.
Musée d'Orsay Collections
Explore the Musée d'Orsay collections by artist, year, theme, and style.
National Gallery Collection
All major traditions of Western European painting are represented from the artists of late medieval and Renaissance Italy to the French Impressionists.
National Media Museum
The Museum's diverse collections encompass film, photography, television, radio and the web.
National Portrait Gallery
NPG's collections of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs document the diversity of individuals who have made significant contributions to the history and culture of the United States.
National Portrait Gallery, London
Explore 120,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day.
Online Exhibitions at New York Public Library
Perseus Digital Library
Images of classical art and architecture provided by the Department of the Classics, Tufts University.
Pierpont Morgan Library - Corsair
Online collections catalog of the Morgan Library. Includes images from Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.
SFMOMA
Online collections from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
SIRIS Image Gallery
The Image Gallery includes over 210,500 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The collection features colonial portraits, nineteenth-century landscapes, American impressionism, twentieth-century realism and abstraction, New Deal projects, sculpture, photography, prints and drawings, contemporary crafts and decorative arts, African American art, Latino art, and folk art.
Smithsonian Institution - 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.
State Hermitage Museum
Images from the State Hermitage Museum in Russia.
The Cloisters
Collections database for the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe.
UW Libraries Digital Collections
This site features materials such as photographs, maps, newspapers, posters, reports and other media from the University of Washington Libraries, University of Washington Faculty and Departments, and organizations that have participated in partner projects with the UW Libraries. The collections emphasize rare and unique materials.

Archives and Special Collections

Archives of American Art
Beazley Archive
Classical art research center
CODART
International Council for curators of Dutch and Flemish Art
Corpus vasorum antiquorum (CVA)
A comprehenseive catalog of ancient Greek and Roman vases
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Dictionary of Art Historians
A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art. Supported by Duke University.
Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Getty Research Institute
HOLLIS Catalogs
The HOLLIS Catalogs of the Harvard University Libraries are databases containing records for more than 15 million books, journals, manuscripts, government documents, maps, microforms, music scores, sound recordings, visual materials, and data files.
Museum of Modern Art Library
National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Pierpont Morgan Library
Regesta Imperii: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz
A comprehensive database for historical research not included in other bibliographies. Covers historical disciplines, such as Archaeology, Byzantine studies, German language and literature studies, History of art and music, Philosophy, Romance Studies, and Theology
Rijksmuseum Research Library
Royal Institute of British Architects Library
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithsonian Libraries - Digital Library
Smithsonian Library's 'Digital Library' contains digital publications, collections and objects.
The New York Public Library
Thomas J. Watson Library: The Libraries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Warburg Institute, University of London

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