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Art Resources: Use Web Resources

These selected web resources in your subject area may help you find additional information. They have been reviewed by us, so you know they are trustworthy. Take a look!

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Art Project powered by Google

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Heilbrunn Timeline Of Art History - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is funded by the Heilbrunn Foundation, New Tamarind Foundation, and Zodiac Fund. The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection. It is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects.

Library of Congress - Arts & Culture

These pages link to selected collection content available online at the Library of Congress, arranged by broad categories. The Library's online content represents only a small percentage of its physical holdings.

SIRIS Image Gallery

The Image Gallery includes over 530,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.

SmartHistory.org

Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook.

Web Gallery Of Art

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 27.600 reproductions.

The Met Collection

View and search the Met Museum's digital collection of art and other curations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.

Museum of Modern Art YouTube Channel

Click on the link to view MOMA's YouTube channel featuring videos of their collection, artists at work, and more. 

The Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute is dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts and their various histories through its expertise, active collecting program, public programs, institutional collaborations, exhibitions, publications, digital services, and residential scholars programs. Its Research Library and Special Collections of rare materials and digital resources serve an international community of scholars and the interested public. The Institute's activities and scholarly resources guide and sustain each other and together provide a unique environment for research, critical inquiry, and scholarly exchange.