Visual Arts

The "traditional" visual arts: painting, drawing, sculpture.

Sub-headings:

Drawing

Painting

Sculpture

Resources in this category:

Angels on the Web
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/angels/

Annotated web directory to information on angels in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. Includes a categorized collection of thumbnails and links to over 550 images of Angels from Medieval manuscripts to contemporary computer art.

Art a GoGo
http://www.artagogo.com/

"Art over easy" -- this site provides links to museums, events, exhibitions, and ways to learn about art in an easy-to-read, jargon-free style.

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

This comprehensive Art History resource organizes links by civilization and then by subheadings, such as Prehistoric Art with Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Art subheadings. It proceeds through Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Art in Early Europe, Art in the Middle Ages, into the Renaissance, and so on. It then organizes contemporary links by country and also offers links to art museums and galleries.

Art Industri
http://www.artindustri.com/

"The world of art at your fingertips." A comprehensive site with everything you ever wanted to know about art. Includes directories of artists, icons and motifs, movements, resources, and more.

The Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/

Over 2,000 scanned images of fine art, historical background on art and artists, theory and criticism, and rotating "gallery" exhibitions.

Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Over 700 leading arts sites indexed to create a searchable, thorough database of online images of visual art and the locations of the original works worldwide.

ArtNet
http://www.artnet.com/

Excellent resource for images, artist biographies, auction results, art books for sale, galleries and museum exhibitions, and art research resources, with a focus on contemporary art and artists.

AskART
http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx

AskART.com is the world's most comprehensive database about North American artists. Information includes dates, states, methods, biographies, subjects for which best known, a decade by decade breakdown of 20th century literature in which they are referenced, and total number of auction lots sold and unsold of their works." Also find dealers who are affiliated with each artist, museums where their works are held, and, for some artists, image galleries of their works.

The British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/default.aspx

Images of famous works owned by the British Museum are pictured here, along with the history of the museum and general information about collections, exhibits, departments, tours, and events. Educational materials about the cultures represented in the Museum's collections are also available here.

The Cranky Librarian
http://crankylibrarian.com/

Search for public domain books and art works online here, as well as searching by author and artist.

Education by Design: The Bienes Center's WPA Museum Extension Project Collection
http://digital.browardlibrary.org/wpa/

An online exhibit and digital database of over 700 educational and visual aids from a collection at the Broward County (FL) Main Library produced under the Works Administration Program (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. The site also includes a brief history of the WPA and a select bibliography.

Finding Art Images
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48440

This IPL pathfinder will help you find images of art works in print and Internet resources. This includes pictures of paintings, sculptures, and more.

The Hermitage Museum
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/

The official website of the Hermitage Museum has online exhibits and a lot of information. Available in English or Russian.

Latin American Art Directory: South American, Central American, Mexican and Caribbean Art Gallery
http://www.latinart.com/index.cfm

The Latin American Art Directory is an online journal for Latin arts and culture. This site allows you to read biographies and interview transcripts with famous Latin American artists; read current articles on issues in the Latin America artists’ community; view and review Latin art collections from major museums; and browse a directory of museums and other institutions housing Latin art collections. Available in both English and Spanish.

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
http://www.understandingduchamp.com/

This is a multimedia timeline of the works of the sculptor, painter and author, Marcel Duchamp. Through animation, you can interact with Duchamp's artworks. Look for the bibliography at the end of the timeline.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/

"The only museum in the world dedicated exclusively to recognizing the contributions of women artists. In the pages that follow you will discover a wealth of information about the museum, selected artists, our collection, and many services. You may choose to examine images of works from our permanent collection. Artist profiles feature the lives of selected women artists and corresponding bibliographies lead you to new sources of information."

Net Art
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48510

This IPL pathfinder is designed to help you find net-specific art which is also known as Net Art. Sites are listed where you can see Net Art on the web and how to search for these sites. Print sources, such as periodicals about interactive art and web design are also included.

Off the Map: Tour Backyard Paradises

Off the Map, provided by PBS, provides video tours of unique individual works of visual art such as Bottle Village, Windmill Park, Salvation Mountain, the Forevertron, and other unique creations, with special information and biographies about the individuals who created them. This site requires Flash.

Pictures Catalogue: The National Library of Australia's Pictorial Collection
http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/

"This catalogue contains descriptions of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects held in the Pictorial Collection of the National Library of Australia. The emphasis is on Australian material, with some material relating to New Zealand, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. The main time period covered is late eighteenth century to the present day. The Collection includes thousands of portraits of significant Australians. The Pictorial Collection contains approximately 45,000 paintings and 550,000 photographs; most of this material has been catalogued with individual descriptions or collection summaries. All these descriptions and summaries can be searched on this database. Of the material that has been catalogued, over 30,000 items have been digitised. These images are available through this catalogue, for research and study purposes."

Rossetti Archive
http://www.rossettiarchive.org/

Provides access to most, if not all, of the visual and written works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in order to support scholarly study of the artist.

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
http://artarchives.si.edu/home.cfm

Featuring the extensive collections of the Archives of American Art, this website offers access to "an endless treasure trove of raw material for art historians and scholars in other fields to explore."

Taoism and the Arts of China
http://www.artic.edu/taoism/

This site provides essays on the Taoist tradition, illustrated by works from the Art Insitute of Chicago's Taoism and the Arts of China exhibit. Glossary links within the text assist the reader in understanding the important terms and concepts associated with Taoism. The site also includes lesson plans and an extensive list of references.

the-artists.org
http://www.the-artists.org/

the-artists.org features an "extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists. The masters of the past hundred years are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth and death, with links to webresources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist's personal website."

University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum: Virtual Exhibitions
http://www.uva.edu/~bayly/

Five online exhibitions: "Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints", "In Our Time: Contemporary Art from the Bayly Art Museum Collections", "The Power of Woe, the Power of Life: Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present", "African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning", and "The Art of the African Mask". Each exhibit includes extensive text and digital images. "In Our Time" exhibit includes QuickTime VR(QTVR) interactive browsing.

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/

The WebMuseum is a non-profit collaborative effort on the part of many museums and galleries worldwide to provide access to visual images tht are out of copyright. Images, exhibitions, an index of artists, and a glossary of art terms may be found here.

William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

William Blake's works including paintings and books are available, along with a biography and chronology of his life and works.