Notre Dame High School Library - Web Sites - Art - General
Use this custom search engine to search all of the links below.
The Artchive
Contains an alphabetical listing of artists and schools (click on the Mona Lisa) as well as critical essays.
http://www.artchive.com/core.html
Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
Search by artist, title of work, museum, movement, medium, subject, or nationality.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/index.html
Art History Resources on the Web
Organized by time periods.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Art History Guide - ThoughtCo.
https://www.thoughtco.com/art-art-history-4132955
Art and Artists - ThoughtCo.
https://www.thoughtco.com/art-4132956
Architecture - ThoughtCo.
https://www.thoughtco.com/architecture-4132953
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/
MetPublications – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Search hundreds of books, bulletins, collection catalogues, guides, etc. Many out of print titles are available to read online or to download as .pdfs. Hint: You may want to choose “read online” from the format menu.
http://metmuseum.org/research/metpublications
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov
Web Gallery of Art
Contains information on painting and sculpture from time periods including the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism movements (1000-1900). Can search by artist, timeframe, etc. Also includes glossary.
http://www.wga.hu
Web Museum, Paris
Includes an artist index and themes index (click on "Famous Artworks" to access these).
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
Google Arts & Culture
View hundreds of famous works of art from museums around the world and zoom in close enough to see brushstrokes and other details. Take tours of famous rooms and galleries too. Explore featured stories.
https://artsandculture.google.com/
VADS
Visual arts collections from the United Kingdom.
http://www.vads.ac.uk
Best of History Websites: Art History- edtechteacher
http://besthistorysites.net/art-history/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (via Khan Academy)
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/metropolitan-museum