About.com: Art History
Online community and resource guide for the artists and art periods of the past. |
AHNCA
Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art whose goal is to foster dialogue and communication among those who have a special interest in the field of nineteenth-century art and culture. |
Allexperts Art History Q&A
Art historians and other volunteer experts answer all your detailed one-on-one questions. |
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 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 Courses Taught by Gerald Bowles
Art history professor provides his syllabi, suggested reading list and other teaching tools and information. |
Art History with Michelli
The Art Browser divides categories of resources by time period and their movements. |
Art of Empire
Features academic information about the art, architecture, and backgrounds of the Ottoman, Papal, Incan, Aztec, Persian, and Mughal empires. |
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. |
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. |
Department of History of Art, Belgrade
History of art in Yugoslavia - related material: texts, images, projects. |
Dictionary of Art Terms
Not an in-depth dictionary, but has some helpful information. |
Horse in Art
About the history of horse representation in art since from ancient times till present. |
HuntFor Art History
Quick reference for all periods in the art history, images and links. |
Images of Feeling
Offering images and a few biographies on a number of 19th and 20th century artists. |
Italian Renaissance
Short overview of the period and biographies and images of the major artists. |
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. |
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/WPA Art History
This site has information and photos 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. |
Ouroboros
A worm or serpent with its tail in its mouth, symbolizing completion, perfection and totality, the endless round of existence. Images and links to images of examples from various periods and cultures. |
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. |
Subjectivia: Study of Post-Modern and Modern Ideologies.
Study of issues relating to modern and post-modern art, includes reviews of recent projects in the arts including photography, film and museum exhibitions. Political issues also addressed. |
The Getty Provenance Index
Collects and disseminates information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art. |
The Piero Project
ECIT - Electronic Compendium of Images and Text |
WebMuseum: Famous Paintings
A 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. |
White on White
Ongoing documentation of the history of paintings that are a shade of white, and the motivation of the artists who paint them. |
