ART RESOURCES
ART HISTORY
FAMOUS ARTISTS
MUSEUMS / COLLECTIONS

Art History Web Portal

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 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:
Art and Art History
All portals recommend this all-inclusive web portal of links to art web sites:   including historical studies, art journals, e-zines, and image galleries.
Art 4 U
Famous Artists
 

Biographies of the world's most popular artists from international art autioneers.
 
Virtual Art Museums 
An international directory to web pages for the world's foremost museums: including museums for curiosities.
Artist's Toolkit

Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Explore & Learn

ART RESOURCES
PAINTING
MEDIA
PHOTOGRAPHY

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 is available only on computers in which the Power Library software has been installed. 

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.

Web Central has a list of links for art resources (1999) through the art department page of www.centralhigh.net.