Art Resources

Book Sources

Use WebCollection Plus to conduct a Power search for book sources on individual artists, artistic periods and genres.

Online Databases

Grove's Art Online from Oxford Reference
MasterFile Premier from Ebsco
Oxford Reference Online from Oxford University Press

Biography Databases
Biography Resource Center from Thomson/Gale
Discovering Biography, which is part of the Discovering Collection from Thomson/Gale
Biography Plus Illustrated from WilsonWeb

History Databases
World History:  Modern  from ABC-CLIO
World History from Facts on File

Internet Sites

Art Museums

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Asian Art
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Getty Information Institute
Guggenheim Museum
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Interactive Art Museum of USC's Fisher Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum Net
This site provides links to dozens of museums in the United Kingdom
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Archaelogical Museum of Athens
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of American Art
Picasso - This site provides links to art museums throughout the world that house the paintings of Picasso
Tate Gallery, London
Treasures of the Louvre
Web Museum, Paris
Digitized Global Treasures - at the Library of Congress
World Wide Art Resources - This site offers access to major art museums throughout the world

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Art History

The Artchive - this site provides analysis of major works of art and artists
Artcyclopedia - can search for art by subject, movement, or medium
Art History Net - can search by artist, civilization or historical era
Art History Resources on the Web - art from prehistory to the present
ArtServe - collection of several thousand art and architecture images mainly from the Mediterranean Basin and Japan which are sorted by country, gallery, prints.

Art of Women Throughout the World

Women's Artist Archive
Women Artists in History - organized by times periods
National Museum of Women Artists

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General Sites

Smithsonian Institute
Smithsonian Photographs Online

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