World Wide Artists Resources:
Artists: Masters
http://wwar.com/categories/Artists/Masters/index.html
Links to sites about artists from the Renaissance to our own time, focused
on contemporary topics.
CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/
Links to individual works by various artists. This site is searchable
by artist's name, nationality or time frame.
Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
You can search for artists by name, movement, medium, subject, or nationality.
Art Museum Image Consortium
(AMICO)
http://www.amico.org/
The AMICO digital library will initially be distributed in the academic
year 1998/1999 as a university test bed project. Currently, anyone can
search the "Thumbnail Catalog" of nearly 20,000 works of art to locate
images by keyword, category, or date.
Galleries
and Museums
Use the websites below to find out what's happening
at galleries and museums around the world, as well
as to discover virtual holdings that may be of interest
to you.
Web Gallery of Art
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/index1.html
According to the site, the Web Gallery of Art contains over 8,500 digital
reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the
years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are annotated
and biographies of the most significant artists are included.
Google Image Search
http://images.google.com/
An extremely useful image search engine which claims to be the most comprehensive
on the Web, indexing over 150 million images. Keyword searches produce
return pages with 20 thumbnails, each of which includes image size information
and the URL of the source page. Clicking on a thumbnail produces a framed
page with a larger image of the thumbnail above the full page on which
the image was found.
Traditional Fine Arts Online
http://www.tfaoi.com/
Links to sites focused on 18th to 20th century American representational
art, including images, articles and essays, and museum calendars.
Many museums and libraries offer
image databases that allow you to access materials
in their archives, free of charge or for a price. Some
of the best are listed below:
ArtServ:
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/index2.html
This Australian National University site is one of the most prized on
the Internet, containing over 70,000 art, architecture and sculpture
images. You can view the images here or upload them for purchase on line.
The Thinker Art Image Database:
http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/index.asp
This extensive collection of images from the Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco offers over 250,000 expandable images of European and Non Western
art, along with biographic information on the artists.
Art Images for College Teaching:
http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=aict&page=index
Not just for teachers, this site contains an extensive selection of expandable
slide examples of both Western and Non-Western Art. Images can be viewed
and uploaded free of charge.
World Art Treasures:
http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/
Masters of European Art from the Berger Foundation are accessible here
in a series of virtual exhibitions. The site also includes a number of
on-line presentations related to Europe and Asia. The section on China
is particularly informative, providing timelines and historic overviews
of the major time periods as they relate to the artifacts exhibited.
Spiro
Architecture Slide Library:
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html
This slide library allows you to view expandable images of buildings
and other historical sites from around
the world.
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