FINE ART (PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY & ARCHITECTURE)

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• AAT: Art and architecture thesaurus online from the Getty Research Institute.
• AATA: AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature, a free, web-based resource.
• Adam: An Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway that is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources.
• American Illustration: The National Museum of American Illustration where artworks from the ‘Golden Age of American Illustration’ are presented in the ‘Gilded Age’ architectural frame of Vernon Court.
• archINFORM: International Architecture Database in either English or German.
• Architecture and Building: Guide covering architecture, building and construction, design, housing, planning, preservation, facility management, energy and the environment, and landscape architecture maintained by Jeanne Brown at the UNLV Architecture Studies Library.
• Architecture.com: architecture.com is one of the world's most extensive built environment portals, all courtesy of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
• Archnet: ArchNet is an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationist, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilisations.
• Artarchives: Archives of American Art from the Smithsomian.
• Artlex: An art dictionary for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
• Artcyclopedia: 8,500 artists listed, 2,300 art sites indexed and access to 180,000 works of art.
• Artdaily.com: The First Art Newspaper on the Net.
• ArtLex: Dictionary of visual art for for artists, collectors, students and educators in art production, criticism, history, aesthetics, and education.
• Artswire: Online communication in the arts from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Site has a link for users with disabilities.
• Askart: The american Artist's "Bluebook" with information about 28,000 artists.
• Cellblockvisions: Prison art in America.
• Ceramics Today: Ceramics Today is a comprehensive independent ceramics site.
• Ceramicsweb: A searchable database devoted to ceramics by Richard Burkett of San Diego State University.
• Chinese Ceramics: Chinese Ceramics from the Pacific Asia Museum.
• Cities: Cities and Buildings Database.
• Clay Art Web Guide: Clay Art Web Guide is an online ceramic portal serving the clay art community since 2000.
• Coleccioncisneros.org: The Fundación Cisneros invites you to explore Colección Cisneros and discover the depth and dimension of art from Latin America.
• Core77.com: Industrial Design content and community site with articles, discussions, interviews and resources.
• Cyburbia: Online resources for planners and architects.
• Decorativearts: A digital library of the decorative arts.
• DPR's Glossary: Glossary of photographic terms from Digital Photography Review.
• The Estate of Inge Morath: The Estate of Inge Morath was established to facilitate the study and appreciation of Inge Morath’s contribution to photography.
• e-yakimono: e-Yakimono.net is a multi-lingual alliance devoted to bringing people everywhere the best in traditional and modern Japanese ceramics, in both the English and Japanese languages.
• Fine Arts: Yale Library selected resources.
• First Nations Art: An introduction to contemporary Native Artists in Canada.
• FoxTalbot: The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project has prepared a comprehensive edition of the nearly 10,000 letters to and from Talbot (1800-1877), best known for his invention of photography.
• Frank Lloyd Wright: The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation was established in 1940 as the repository of the life work of Frank Lloyd Wright.
• George Grantham Bain Collection: The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies primarily covering New York City from the 1900s to the mid-1920s with 39,744 glass negatives and a selection of about 1,600 photographic prints available online.
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : Written by 1467 and printed at the press of the renowned early Renaissance Venetian publisher, Aldus Manutius, in 1499, The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is held among bibliophiles and book collectors to be the most beautiful book of all time and for this reason it is one of the most sought-after of all the incunabulae.
• Islamic Art, Music,and Architecture: Islamic Art, Music,and Architecture around the world.
• Klingspor-Museum Offenbach: Museum for Modern International Book Art, Typography and Calligraphy.
• LACMA: LACMA's Collections Online Catalogue of art collections with over 44,000 artworks.
• The Louvre: Website for the museum.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: 3,500 works of art in an online collection.
• MFA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
• MFA-CAMEO: The Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online (CAMEO) is an electronic database that compiles, defines, and disseminates technical information on the distinct collection of terms, materials, and techniques used in the fields of art conservation and historic preservation.
• MoMA: Museum of Modern art.
• Mother of All Art: Art and Art history links.
• New York City Architecture: An online guide book.
• NGA: The National Gallery of Art.
• NMWA: National Museum of Women in the Arts.
• Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: Online journal of 19th century visual culture.
• North American Indian: The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis presented by the Library of Congress.
• On-line Picasso Project: Dedicated entirely to the Life and Works of the artist, including an extensive selection of his works, biographical and bibliographical references, and news from Texas A&M University.
• PPOC: The Prints & Photographs Online Catalog of the Library of Congress.
• PDinfo: Public Domain Information Project.
• Peterashbyhayter: Peter Ashby-Hayter photography site with a glossary.
• Photographymuseum: The American Photography Museum.
• Photo Study Collection Database: The Getty research Institure's Photo Study Collection Database.
• Portrait Society of America: The purpose of the Portrait Society is to foster and enhance an understanding of the practice, techniques and applications of traditional fine art portraiture and figurative works.
• Provenance Research: The Getty Provenance Index® Databases,are compiled with the collaborative participation of institutions and individuals in Europe and the United States and contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records that cover the period from the late 16th century to the early 20th century.
• Quilts and Quiltmaking in America: From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, this site showcases American quiltmaking 1978-1996.
• Resources for Art History: Art History Resorces on the Web Designed and Maintained by Dr. Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Professor, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
• Saul Steinberg Foundation: Nonprofit organization with the mission is to facilitate the study and appreciation of Saul Steinberg's contribution to 20th-century art.
• Sculptor.org: Resources related to sculptors and sculpture on and off the web with over 350 pages of resources and tools, and over 12,000 links.
• Seattle Art Museum: Discovering Bhuddhist Art: This interactive is a virtual guide to Discovering Buddhist Art, now on view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
• Steiglitz: The Steiglitz Web site is part of the American Masters PBS series.
• Structurae: This site offers you information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world.
• Tate: London's Tate Gallery online.
• Textiles & Apparel: The Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, which includes more than 9,000 items of apparel dating from the eighteenth century to the present.
• Tibetart: The Himalayan Art Project's comprehensive research database of Himalayan and Tibetan art.
• TOAH: The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world.
• TypeBase.com: Resources for all aspects of type and its relation to the design industry.
• TypeIndex.org: An Index of possibly all existing fonts in the world.
• ULAN: Union list of Artist's names online from the Getty Research Institute.
• Van Gogh's Letters: With over 16,000 searchable words, 62 index topics, 1284 topic citations, and 1223 artwork citations.
• Wadsworth Atheneum: America's oldest art museum online.
• Walker Art Center: Minneapolis, Minnesota arts center which features contemporary visual and performing arts exhibits and programs.
• WAAW: Women Artists of the American West an intradisciplinary resource from Purdue university.
• Web Gallery of Art: Over over 8,500 artworks and 13 museum tours.
• William C. Brumfield Collection: Search the William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection in Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
• WM: Web Museum Network, with an art museum of "thumbnail" graphics of many famous paintings.
• WSSLINKS: Women & Art, developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Links last verified and updated 3/22/2007.

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