LibGuides: Art History: Other Resources

Best Art & Art History Websites

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Website for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
The Getty Museum
Website for the Getty Museum of Art in Los Angeles, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Website for the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
The Lourvre
English website for the Lourve Museum in Paris, France
Paris Museums Collection
Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
An interactive timeline of art history, with overviews of art and culture ordered by date, then by geographical region
Voice of the Shuttle -- Art (Modern & Contemporary) links
Compiled by personnel at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Links are ordered by geographical area, then by date. Also included are links to art museums, art journals, and college and university art history programs and departments.
Voice of the Shuttle - Art History links
Compiled by personnel at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Links are ordered by geographical area, then by date. Also included are links to art museums, art journals, and college and university art history programs and departments.
Art History Resources
A directory of links to webpages about art history compiled by Dr. Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe from Sweet Briar College. Ordered by era and geographical area.

Union List of Artist Names
Worldwide artists from antiquity to the present

the-artists.org
Modern and contemporary artists

Art and Culture
Biographical information on artists and links to sites

Graphis
International Journal of Visual Communication

Michelangelo Buonarroti
Biographical information as well as resources

SIRIS: Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
Smithsonian art museum databases, photographic collections, etc.