Arts+-+History+of+Arts

= Library Resources = Print resources in WBAIS library collection

= Web sites, images, and free videos on History of Art =

[|Art Cyclopedia] Provides links to art images on the Web. The site is searchable by artist, work, and museum, by subject, medium, or nationality. It includes information about art movements with examples of relevant artworks and a section on women artists. The site was created and is maintained by John Maylon.

[|Art ImageBase] More than 60,000 images from the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum

[|Art History Resources on the Web] Provides links to hundreds of sites related to all periods of art history, from prehistoric to twenty-first century, arranged by period and region. Many links are to museums and galleries or to artists’ pages that provide biographical information and images. The site is maintained by Christopher Whitcombe, professor of art history at Sweet Briar College.

[|Art of the Western World] free videos from Annenberg Learner

[|ArtServe] Visual history of art and architecture

[|Classical Art Research Center] (//The Beazley Archive, Oxford University//) offers a dictionary and a searchable database of thousands of images of artwork, pottery, sculpture, and gems and photographs of ancient sites.

Dictionary of Art Historians

Digital Image Collection Web site links are broken down into photography, fine art, moving pictures, etc... and among the most interesting are the Civil War images under Photography Collections Online and Nomad's Land Photography.

[|Digital Library of Decorative Arts and Material Culture] Electronic resources, e-books, articles, images, and more

[|DocuWatch] free videos on the history of European Art

[|Free images, Sounds, and videos in Wikimedia Commons] [|Great Buildings Collection] The collection offers information on about 1,000 works of architecture and hundreds of architects from all periods and regions. Searchable by building, architect, and place, the site provides biographical information about architects, basic information on works, extensive images, and links to articles published in //Architecture Week//. The site also provides selected 3-D images and listings of buildings by chronology, building type, and architectural style.

[|Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History] History of Art - Virtual Library [|Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New YorIt takes you to many areas of its collection and highlights currents exhibits.

[|Mother of All Art and History of Art and Art History Links Collection] Online Gallery Masterpiece of the Renaissance, Jane Austen's Early Work, First Atlas of Europe, Outstanding 15th century Church book, Classic of Botanical Illustration, Anglo-Saxon Art, Sketches by Leonardo and other sites

Photography CollectionNYPL, Recent Acquisitions

[|Web Gallery of Art] A collection of over 13,500 digital reproductions of European painting and sculptures spanning from 1150 until 1800, many with commentary.