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Architecture

Architecture: Great Buildings Online: http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/buildings.html

More than 800 buildings are pictured on this site. Use this site to access photographic images, architectural drawings, pictorial histories, discussion groups, bibliographies, and even a walk-through virtual experience.

Art e-Commerce

Artnet.com: http://www.artnet.com .This site is an Internet portal to the world of art. It is a premier site on the web for art content and e-commerce. It provides online auctions, member gallery and artist sites, magazine, bookstore, art research tools and resources. Artnet.com AG is a public company traded on Germany's Neuer Markt.

Novica.com: http://www.novica.com This site provides access to works by artisans from countries around the world, allowing its customers to buy directly from the artist. Such items include: carvings, paintings, rugs, scarves, decorated pottery and decorative plates.  

The Artists Bluebook: http://www.askart.com This site claims to be the most comprehensive database dedicated to American Artists. Images and information on books, articles, museum holdings, auction records, graphical sales analyses, and more, are dedicated to each of the 25,000 artists spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries. The images are included for commercial purposes. They are useful for identifying artists' works, but are only of fair quality.

Art History

Art History http://www.wadsworth.com/art_d/links/art_link01.html. Harcourt Brace Publisher’s art resources on the web. This is a comprehensive listing of art resources, organized by era. Major topics are: Ancient World, Middle Ages The World Beyond Europe, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo, and the Modern World.

Art History Research Center: http://art-history.concordia.ca/AHRC/ Established in 1995, the AHRC is a comprehensive source for art historical research on the Internet. It provides links to search engines, newsgroups, library catalogues and bookstores, article indexes, universities with art-history curricula, and information on citing sources.

Art History Resources: http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html Maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College, VA, this comprehensive site links to art information, both Western and Non-Western. Some categories include: art from Prehistoric, Ancient, Baroque, Renaissance, to the 20^th century. There are also links to research resources, museums and galleries, prints, and photographs on the Web.

General Art Resources

A Sampling of Museum Homepages

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: http://www.thinker.org/index.html. The site includes information on the museums in and around the city, upcoming exhibits, an image database, announcements, and a search engine.

The Hudson River Museum: http://www.hrm.org/ This homepage serves the museum, which is located in Yonkers, NY. The site includes information on exhibits, press releases, and funding.

The Louvre: http://www.louvre.fr. The Louvre homepage provides links to special collections, history of the Louvre, activities, a virtual tour, and other pertinent information. The page may be accessed in languages other than French.

The Museum of the City of New York is a private, not-for-profit educational corporation founded in 1923 for the purpose of presenting the history of New York City and its people as a significant learning resource. The Museum advances its mission through exhibitions, educational activities, and publications and by acquiring, preserving, and documenting original cultural materials which reflect New York City’s history. In fulfilling its mission, the Museum provides New Yorkers and visitors an understanding of the individual and shared heritages that have traditionally characterized New York City and the sense of time, place, and self that is essential for the well being of all communities.

National Gallery of Art Homepage: http://www.nga.gov/collection/ “The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. Search the collection by specific artist, title, or a combination of criteria. Tour the collection by medium and school, or choose a Gallery Guide in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish (PDF format) for your visit. In-depth studies focus on artists and works of art.” (source: National Gallery of Art homepage.) The site provides data on more than 100,000 objects and works of art.

National Museum of American Art Home Page: http://www.nmaa.si.edu/ This is the Smithsonian Art Museum home page. It provides information on the museum’s present and future special exhibits and collections. Their 1001 days and nights of American Art is an online calendar in which each day has a representative box containing either information on art openings on that day or images taken from various exhibits.

Art Images

Artcyclopedia: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/ In an attempt to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet, Artcyclopedia provides a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. As of March 2000, the site links to 700 leading arts sites and offers more than 24,000 links directly to approximately 80,000 works by 7000 artists.

Best Information on the Net-pictures: http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Art/artimages.htm. This website is a must-see! It contains many links to images from nature, art, and science. This should be considered a premier website for anyone searching for art images on the web. In addition to the above, the site can be used to access image finders and all-purpose picture files. Also included is a “miscellaneous” category, which provides links to clip art, art crime, cartoon art, and Christian symbols sites.

Thinker Imagebase:  http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. There are more than 110,000 items in the collection.

Virtual Museums

Virtual Tours: http://www.virtualfreesites.com/museums.html These sites present over 300 Museums, Exhibits, Points of Special Interest and Real-Time multimedia guided tours on the Web. Many of the sites offer text and pictures, while others, in addition, transmit sound and an occasional movie.

WWW Virtual Library: http://vlmp.museophile.com/. The Virtual Library Museums Pages is a distributed directory of online museums around the world.

Virtual Museums around the U.S.: http://www.icom.org/vlmp/usa.html Museums in the USA. This site provides access to the most developed online network of museum information in the world. Museum information is searchable by name, type, state, or keyword. In addition, the site includes an enormous alphabetic list of all virtual museums in the United States.  

WebMuseum Network: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/ This virtual exhibit provides images of paintings from general and special exhibits around the globe. It is made possible through a daily-increasing number of participating museums. The site delivers more than 10 million documents weekly to more than 200,000 customers.

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