Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access
The Art Institute of Chicago's Art Access website, which links to selections of global art drawn from the institute's collection. Selections grouped by region and include lesson plans, activities, maps, and glossaries.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Periods and Styles
A large collection of resource links here for a wide range of art periods and styles from ancient times to the modern day.
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Art History Timelines
An amazing resource of 1,303 artworks by 266 artists throughout history. You can search for artists and works by name and even generate your own tailored time line of images.
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Europeana: The European Library: Treasures From the National Libraries of Europe
Browse an image database of art treasures selected from libraries across Europe.
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Parrish Art Museum: East End Stories
Website exploring the artist community on the East End of Long Island, New York. With image galleries, historical chronology, and biographical information on many artists.
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Terra Foundation for American Art
A collection begun by Daniel J. Terra in the 1970's includes more than seven hundred prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures is presented online.
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology
Website for the 2007 exhibit The Herculaneum Women and the Origins of Archaeology at the Getty Museum. Describes how the discovery of three marble statues in Italy in the 1700s led to centuries of archaeological exploration in the area....
J. Paul Getty Trust
J. Paul Getty Museum: Explore Art
One way to make sense of the full scope of art history is to examine the collections of a world-class museum like the Getty. At the Explore Art site, the Getty makes it easy to peruse artwork across the centuries and across all media....
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Collections Online: American Art
An online gallery of images of American art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Guggenheim Museum: The 50th Anniversary
Guggenheim Museum exhibit The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Guggenheim Museum and features images of paintings aquired in the years 1952-1960 along with biographical and...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
A chronological, geographic, and thematic overview of art history illustrated with examples from the Metropolitan's collections. A stunning work of scholarship and beauty from one of the world's most influential cultural institutions.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Gallery Talks
This national museum offers several videos of gallery talks given in American Sign Language.
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Musee De L'orangerie: Accueil
Website homepage for the Musee de l'Orangerie, a museum in France. Information on the museum is available in English as a PDF download.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Nicolas Poussin
Thematic essay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the French painter Nicolas Poussin, with historical and biographical information and samples of his work.
Columbia University
Columbia University: Project Portfolio: Art and Understanding
Website offers a video e-seminar from Columbia University artists and theorists on the question, "What is art?"
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Art in the Picture an Introduction to Art History
Get to know some of the most well known names, paintings, styles, and museums within the world of art. Perfect for any art enthusiast or art student. Don't miss this fantastic art history site that even includes an art video of the week!
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Art Project
Art Project is a part of the Google Cultural Institute. View individual pieces of art in detail with the close-up tool. View collections from museums around the world, and even get 360 degree views of artworks within those museums....
ArtLex
Art Lex: Art Movements
Choose a movement from a comprehensive list of over forty art movements to learn particulars about it. View artwork by leading proponents of the movement, find information about the movement's characteristics, read pertinent quotations,...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Is There a Difference Between Art and Craft?
Where do we get our notions of art vs. craft? Laura Morelli traces the history of how we assign value to the visual arts. [5:30]
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Pearson Education: Chapter Summary: Fourteenth Century Art in Europe [Pdf]
Excerpted textbook chapter includes background information about Europe in the fourteenth century and then focuses on architecture, visual arts, and literary works from Italy, France, England, and the Holy Roman Empire. Numerous images...
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Canal Kids: Arte (Explore Art?for Kids?in Portuguese)
History of the development of cinema, painting, theater, music, and dance--for kids. Visitors can explore how music is mixed, listen to radio, and watch the making of animated cartoons, among many other activities.
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art: Index of Artists
Go directly to an A-to-Z index of the names of hundreds of European artists from which you can link to artist biographies, sample artwork, and useful analyses. Also available are "tours" or curated collections of which focus on specific...
Emory University
Michael C. Carlos Museum: Permanent Collection: Sub Saharan African Art
Image gallery featuring selections from the Carlos Museum's collection of nineteenth and twentieth century African art. Also includes descriptions of the art.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Ancient Art Influenced Modern Art
The term modern art sounds like it means art that is popular now, but the style actually originated over 150 years ago and includes artists like Picasso, Matisse, and Gauguin. What's more ironic is that this movement they pioneered-...