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Essential Web Based Academic Resources for Art and Art History

 
This is our collection of websites in the field of chemistry that we have identified as having content and relevance to the college or university student studying the subject of Art & Art History. These sites are not lists of links. Instead they contain data, tutorials and background information that will serve to assist the understanding of the subject as well as providing ideas for research projects and papers.For general academic resources which may contain Art & Art History related materials as well as from other subjects click here.

Artcyclopedia
The mission of the Artcyclopedia is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. They have now indexed 1200 arts sites, and offer more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists.

Art History Research Center
The AHRC is the first and foremost tool for art historical research on the internet. It shares key resources and methods of online research so that art historians can find the resources relevant to their work. Hosted at the Art History Server at Concordia University, Canada.

Art History Resources on the Web
Art History Resources on the Web is the web's most extensive collection of links to anything and everything art and art history related. Maintained by Chris Witcombe Professor, Art History, Sweet Briar College, Virginia

AskART.com™
AskART.com™ is a privately held corporation dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world’s most comprehensive centralized database about American artists.  Our founders, our investors, and our staff are committed to offer to the public this unprecedented educational and professional resource—digital images, biographical documentation, book references, auction data, and the opportunity to engage in open forum dialogue on the subject of American artists.

Conceptart.org
Conceptart.org is a web community of artists who are here for one purpose: To help each other learn about art, provide the best place to showcase work, further our art educations, and to meet other artists from around the world. Conceptart.org is a community funded from within, and with the support of sponsors and professionals on the site.

deviantART
deviantART was launched to provide a central location for graphical artists to display their creations for feedback and exposure. With an emphasis on digital works as pieces of art rather than desktop eye candy, the community grew rapidly. deviantART continues to commit itself to responding to the creative outlet needs of its members, releasing and revamping categories as interest grows. From humble beginnings as primarily a static image file gallery, deviantART is now proud to host poetry, photography, flash exhibits, cell phone art, as well as an enormous Indy art and wallpaper sections and skins for 105+ applications.

Earth as Art
In the Earth as Art Gallery you can view our planet through the beautiful images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite - and most recently, the Terra Satellite's Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). This gallery of images uses the visceral avenue of art to convey the thrilling perspective of the Earth that satellites provide to the viewer.

The Frick Art Reference Library
The Frick Art Reference Library's online catalog,
FRESCO, contains more than 230,000 records for books, exhibition catalogs, journals, microforms, CD-ROMs, videos, electronic resources, archival materials, and artist files. This number represents material cataloged, in process, and on order from the Library's establishment in 1920 to the present.

The Met
The resources of the Metropolitan Museum of Art are available online. The interactive timeline of art history is here.

The Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
The Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page is sponsored, maintained and updated by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.

The New York Public Library’s Digital Library Collection
The New York Public Library’s Digital Library Collection fulfills the institution’s traditional mission to provide "free and open access to the accumulated wisdom of the world" in the digital realm. The Digital Library Collection website provides online access to collections of unique and rare materials of value to students, creators, scholars, and educators through searchable archival finding aids, full-text documents, digital surrogates and guides to images, and born-digital materials.

Online Picasso Project
The On-line Picasso Project, established in April 1997, is a purely educational, non-profit, academic project supported by research and development grants from Sam Houston State University and Texas A&M University.

The Piero Project
Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross, painted between 1452 and 1466, in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo, Italy, has been used in preparing an experimental pilot project. All the images of the fresco cycle have been scanned from 8"x10" color transparencies or 2"x2" color slides, then texture mapped into the computer at a level of resolution that functions for close study, distant viewing, and above all, during real-time movement. From Princeton University.

The Royal College of Art
The Department of Interaction Design explores the role of technology in people's lives and imaginations. "Essentially, we represent an alliance between electronics and the humanities. Our teaching, our research, our designs — all are as much about culture and society as about emerging technologies."

the-artists.org
the-artists.org Through its extended database of 20th Century and contemporary visual artists the masters of the past hundred years are represented with their portrait, dates and places of birth -and death-, with links to web resources to find anything you want to know about them, with images of their work, comprehensive biographies and articles, and if it exists, the artist's personal website.

Traditional Fine Arts Organization
The character of affairs of Traditional Fine Arts Organization, Inc. is for charitable purposes including fostering education and nurturing understanding of American visual arts among student and adult populations through publications, guidance and counseling of nonprofit arts organizations and related activities. Their Resource Library Magazine is believed to be the first and most comprehensive Internet-based publication devoted to American representational art.

Virtual Uffizi
The Virtual Uffizi site contains 505 exact files, one for each of the painting exhibited in the real "Uffizi Gallery", plus apx. 400 images of the above mentioned files. (The number of paintings exhibited is always changing due to restorations, external exhibitions, damages from the 1993 bomb, new acquisitions and so on). They are also planning to add detailed explanation of each painting plus a lot of other things but nobody knows when this is going to happen.

Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th century and spread to other countries in the 15th and 16th centuries. Intending to present Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible, the scope of the collection was later extended to show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More recently the periods of Neoclassicism and Romanticism were also included.

Whitney Artport
Artport is the Whitney Museum's portal to net art and digital arts, and an online gallery space for commissioned net art projects.

World Art Treasures
World Art Treasures presents art in a slide show format and categorized by artist, region and period as well as essays, lectures and itineraries, produced by the JACQUES-EDOUARD BERGER FOUNDATION.

World War II Poster Collection
The Government Publications Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the onset of war through 1945. All are viewable on line.

 
 
 

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