Art

A thorough guide to internet Resources from the University of Delaware Library.

By Chris Witcombe of Sweet Briar College, this site contains a variety of information from Prehistoric Art through the 20th-Century.

Created by John Malyon, this project has as its mission to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. The project has compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.

The Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library. Since the invention of photography in 1839, libraries, museums, research institutes, and academic departments at Harvard and Radcliffe have created and collected photographs for use in research and instruction. Among these millions of images are more than 3,500 daguerreotypes, the first publicly-announced photographic process.

From the Lilly Library of Duke University comes this sound selection for general art topics and definitions.

Collects and assembles primary and secondary materials to stimulate and support advanced research. Records for all Research Library materials are available online via the Library Catalog. Two resources that supplement information contained in the catalog are the Special Collections Finding Aids and the Photo Study Collection Database.

Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a multifacetted full text history timeline for the world of art.

From the University of Warwick this site links to large resource listings in a wide range of areas, to online encyclopedias and databases, and to organizations and libraries.