ART & GALLERIES

Updated July 2010 
 

 THIS PAGE: What is Art? Art Education - Images/Posters/Reproductions - Architecture - Museums - Women in Art - Non-Western Art - American Art - Art Theft - Misc. Topics

  

GENERAL & COMPREHENSIVE SITES ON ART & ART HISTORY

ART BY PERIOD
Prehistoric, Ancient, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic, Impressionism, 19th and 20th centuries

(Super info on specific periods in art can also be found at the sites listed above)

INFO ON SPECIFIC ARTISTS
(in alphabetical order, not by period)

ART EDUCATION
WHAT IS ART?
  What is Visual Culture? - Why Study Visual Culture?
  What is Art? What is an Artist? INTRODUCTION
  TAKE A QUIZ: Britney Spears vs. Shakespeare - What is the Art?  

GLOSSARIES - COLOR THEORY - ELEMENTS OF ART - EDUCATION RESOURCES
WORDS OF ART: AN ON-LINE GLOSSARY OF THEORY AND CRITICISM FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook: A Beginner's Guide
ArtLex - dictionary of visual art
  Painting Glossary 
  The Alphabet of Art
  Art Studio Chalkboard
  The Elements of Art (Education at the Getty) - What Are the Elements of Art?
  Color Theory Basics - Color Theory
   Color Matters - The Brain 
  Color Symbolism Chart - Color Symbolism: Using Color for Meaning - Color Psychology  
Color - Color Wheel and Color Complements
Understanding Color
    c o l o r . m a t t e r s ... w e l c o m e !
    Colors - Value: Tints and Shades - Complementary Colors - Analogous Colors - Neutral Colors - Warm Colors - Cool Colors - Perspective - Focal Point
Exploring Linear Perspective
Eyes on Art 
  Welcome to the art history paper writing pages!
  Alphabetical Listing of Lesson Plans & Curriculum Ideas (Getty artsednet)
   The Incredible Art Department | Art Education 
  Learn to Draw - Learning to Draw
   For more, please visit the ART section on my Teachers and Education page. 

 
ART FOR KIDS
ART HISTORY FOR KIDS
Free Art Ideas For Kids, Parents, and Teachers 
  welcome to the "new" @rtroom! 
   The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore & Learn - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Just for Fun  
    Lesson Plans - Children in Early America: Dressing Up 
Learning About Leonardo  
  A. Pintura: Art Detective: An Adventure in Art History - Can you quess the mystery painting! Great for students and kids!
  TAKE A QUIZ: Britney Spears vs. Shakespeare - What is the Art?

America Quilts: Quilts in the Classroom
Joseph Wu's Origami Page - Tammy Yee's Origami Page- easy paper folding crafts for children. 
  Welcome to Etch A Sketch 
  Mexican Art Game
  Met FAQs for Kids | Home 
  TIMELINE: Crayola Crayon Colors 
  Which American Artists Share Your Birthday? 
For tons of fun, check out the online coloring book and craft links on my Oz's Parent's and Families page.

IMAGES - REPRODUCTIONS - POSTERS - CLIP ART
GREAT PLACES TO BUY REPRODUCTIONS & POSTERS
Vincent Art Gallery : Oil Reproductions of the Old Masters 
  Art.com & AllPosters.com - my favorite place to buy posters for my classroom!!! 
  Fine art prints at postershop.com 
  Medusa Ancient Art - Egyptian Greek Roman Antiquities and Ancient Art   
Barewalls Interactive Art : art posters, prints, lithographs and more
  www.gallart.com - Gallery Art online 
  ART4SALE.com ~ California Fine Arts 
   World Wide Arts Resources - Your First Stop for Arts Online! 
Art reproduction oil paintings & portraits 
  TheArtifact - Artifact & Art Reproductions 
  Motivation Posters dot com
  Free Printable Posters from Print-A-Poster.com - featuring Educational Posters  
     Collage Portal: 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery in London - you can purchase prints of any of the 20,000 works of art online!!!

IMAGES
NOTE: Images and works can be found on most of the sites listed on this page.

   Posters American Style / American Art  
  Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Web Gallery of Art  
  P@NOPTIC: Searching Rubens 
  AICT free-use art image resource for the educational community 
80,000 Images of Art & Architecture 
  Image Collections and Online Art 
   ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Contents
  World Art Treasures
  Image Galleries & Exhibitions (Getty artsednet) 
   National Gallery of Art - Search the Collection by Expanded Criteria 
  Smithsonian American Art Museum: Search for an Image 
  Mark Harden's Artchive
Jacob Richman's Hot Sites - Pictures/Art 
  Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 

 
AUCTION HOUSES & ANTIQUES
Welcome to Sotheby's
Christies Auction House
Antiques Roadshow - Antiques Roadshow UK 
   Antiques AtoZ | Home Page 

ARCHITECTURE
  What is Architecture? 
Architecture Glossary - Illustrated Dictionary for Architecture Words
  Architecture Design Architectural Images History Models and More
  Architectural Types - Styles - Historical Periods
  Great Buildings Online
  40 Centuries of Architecture 
   Digital Archive of European Architecture 
Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents
Styles in American Architecture
  Architecture Web Resources 
  History of Western Architecture
  The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Architecture 
  about-arts.com - architecture 
Architecture Web Sites 
P@NOPTIC: Searching Rubens
    Voice of the Shuttle: Architecture Page
  Architecture Design Images History 3D Models and more - Artifice Great Building 
Great Structures 
Egyptian Architecture
Old Stones - ancient art and archaeology 
History of Meso-American Architecture 
Alhambra.org
   Architecture Through the Ages
    Gothic, Medieval, Celtic, Stone Carving, Art and Sculpture Links  
International Gothic Style
  GLOSSARY: Gothic Field Guide to Architectural Terms 
GLOSSARY: Church Architecture, Furnishings, and Vestments
    Medieval Architecture - Great Buildings Online
Cupola's Medieval Architecture Gallery One
  St. John Lateran - VR Tours - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint John Lateran - For more on Renaissance architecture, click HERE.
  The Unofficial Leaning Tower of Pisa Web Site - Leaning Tower of Pisa Statistics & Information 
  Welcome at WALKSINSIDE VENICE - walking tours of Venice
  Architecture and Public Space 
  The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson 
   Palladio's Italian Villas-Home
  Brooklyn Bridge Web Page - Geometry of Bridge Construction
    FSW's Links to 19th and 20th Century Architecture and Design - The Aesthetic Movement 
Built in America - Historical American Buildings Survey 
  Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America 
   The National Arts & Crafts Archives
  The Arts & Crafts Movement - People
   The Arts & Crafts Movement - People: Frank Lloyd Wright - Frank Lloyd Wright - Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape, 1922-1932 
  National Building Museum 
   Skylines and Scrapers - worldwide highrise statistics 
  Welcome to the Skyscraper Museum 
    World's Tallest Skyscrapers 
NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS 
  Roadside Architecture: Society for Commercial Archeology - Back On Tack - Roadside Attractions & Oddball Architecture - Roadside Peek: Roadside Architecture - American Highway Project 
  Maya Lin: Notes, Pictures, Online Resources - architect of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Texas Twists: Regionalism in Texas Architecture
  R. Buckminster Fuller on PBS
Architecture in Fine Prints: An Exhibition
  Chinese Architecture
  American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920 - Garden History Links - Museum of Garden History Home Page
Have you purchased an older home or contemplating doing so?  Well, Old House Chronicle will be a terrific help!
 
  You will also find info on specific buildings during specific time periods by clicking on the time period links at Oz's Table of Contents.
  
WOMEN IN ART
  The National Museum of Women in the Arts
WIC - History of Women through Art
  Women Artists in History 
  Mark Harden's Artchive: "Women Artists"
  Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Art
   Victorian Women and the Visual Arts
   The World's Women On-Line!: electronic art networking project
   Women Artists of the American West 
  Women in Photography Archive - Gallery 
For more info on specific artists, please check my Artists page.  For info on women in the arts can be found on my Women page.

MUSEUMS
   ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Museums & Galleries  
WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world 

  Welcome to MuseumNetwork.com
  Welcome to the British Museum 
  National Gallery of Art - Search the Collection 
MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art
  Welcome to The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Site Index
Smithsonian American Art Museum - Online Exhibitions 
The Freer Gallery Of Art and The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 
Archives of American Art
The National Portrait Gallery
  Whitney Museum of American Art
The Getty Art Museum - Image Galleries & Exhibitions (Getty artsednet)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Tate | Welcome
Guggenheim Museum 
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Louvre Museum Official Website
  Vatican Museums - Official web site - Collections Online
Kimbell Art Museum - Dallas Museum of Art - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  
  Welcome to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museum of African Art 
  National Museum of the American Indian
Paris Pages Musee du Louvre
Uffizi Gallery
M. C. Carlos Museum
  Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
  Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
  The International Museum of Cartoon Art - Cartoon Art Museum

NON-WESTERN ART
ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Africa - The Native Arts of the Americas - Chinese Art - Japanese Art - India - Southeast Asia - Pacific Cultures  FOR MORE, Check out the Contents page.
  Timelines | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  Africa | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  National Museum of African Art / Smithsonian Institution
The Art of Africa - Africa - Art - ArtLex on African Art 
   BLACK ART — ANCESTRAL LEGACY: The African Impulse in African-American Art 
Brief History of Traditional African BeadCraft - The Art of the African Mask
   Ethnic Art: African. Mexican and Caribbean Perspectives 
TIMELINES & INFO FROM THE MET!  West Asia - Central and North Asia - East Asia - South and Southeast Asia
    Asia-art.net for Asian art promotion 
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Chinese Art
  ArtLex on Chinese art - Jade: Chinese Stone of Heaven - Chinese Architecture - China the Beautiful - Chinese Art and Literature - Classical Chinese Paintings - Chinese Paintings Gallery - Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy - Portraits of Emperors 
  Art of Chinese Brush Painting - Heavens' Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles - China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD 
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Japanese Art
  ArtLex on Japanese Art 
Joseph Wu's Origami Page - Tammy Yee's Origami Page - easy paper folding crafts for children. - Origami: A Brief History of the Ancient Art of Paperfolding
   WebMuseum: Japanese Art and Architecture - The Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts - Japanese Art and Western influence 
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Art of India
  Timeline of Indian Art
  ArtLex on Hindu Art - ANU - Tibetan Art - Art & Sculpture - Indian Heritage - Architecture - Indian Heritage 
  Exploring the Mandala
    Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets of the Mughal Era Resources - MMA, Indian Carpet Hunt
  INDIAN HERITAGE: IMAGES of FINE ART & SCULPTURE from INDIA 
   Taj Mahal 
  Art of the Americas | Thematic Essays | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  Timelines, North America | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Timelines, Central America - Timelines, South America
  The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mesoamerica - Mesoweb Encyclopedia - Mesoweb Resources 
  History of Meso-American Architecture 
  Latin American Art Directory: South American, Central American, Mexican 
  TOTEM POLES - NATIVE AMERICAN ART - NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art - IPL: Pueblo Pottery Exhibit
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Art of Pacific Cultures 
OCEANIC ART - Mysterious Places - The Story of Easter Island - Aboriginal Art Online - Quality Aboriginal Art from Australia - Aboriginal Art Traditional Symbols - Aboriginal Art Online
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Islamic Art
   Islamic Art | Thematic Essays | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Timelines, West Asia | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  Islamic Art Introduction - ArtLex on Islamic Art - Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization (IAAO) - Art of Arabic Calligraphy - Islamic Art, Music, And Architecture Around The World - Arab Gateway: art and architecture 
   Art Links - Non-European Art 
For more, visit my, Native Americans, Non-Western Cultures and Meso and Latin America pages.


AMERICAN ART
American Art | Thematic Essays | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History 
  Timelines, North America | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Art of the Americas
  Early American Paintings
   Designs for Democracy: 200 Years of Drawings from the National Archives 
Exhibit: A New Deal for the Arts
  NARA - Online Exhibits - Main Page 
    Digital Archive of American Architecture: Contents 
  Styles in American Architecture - more in the section on architecture above.
   Smithsonian American Art Museum - Online Exhibitions - Search Collections - Have a Question About American Art? Find an Answer 
  Smithsonian: Art and Design 
  Archives of American Art 
  Whitney Museum of American Art 
    NGA - American Painting 
  NGA - American Portraits of the Late 1700s and Early 1800s 
  America's First Great Portrait Artist - John Singleton Copley 
  Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, & the American Watercolors
  Newington Cropsey Foundation: Hudson River School
  WCMA - Moving Pictures - American Art & Early Film, 1880-1910 
  NMAA: Posters American Style - Patriotic Persuasion - Advice to Americans - Designed to Sell - American Events - Posters American Style: Image Index 
  Powers of Persuasion 
  Art in the U.S. Capitol
Founders Of The Arts & Crafts Movement 
  American History and Art from New England 
HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL
  Hudson River School of Painting
  Art Nouveau Society of the Americas 
  Photography and Everyday Life in America, 1945–60
Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s from the Nat'l Portrait Gallery 
   The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties - Pop Art - ArtLex on Pop Art
  The Art of Persuasion - Home - The Index of American Design 
  Art for Trade's Sake: The Fusion of Commerce and Culture, 1927-1934 
  Negotiating the American Identity in the National Portrait Gallery 
  Cultural Objects 
  Women Artists of the American West 
  The Architecture of Thomas Jefferson 
     PBS: A Century of Quilts - America Quilts: Quilts in the Classroom - Quilt History Directory - Online Museum Exhibit Links - SEVEN SOUTHERN QUILTERS 
  Welcome to Labor Arts 
  Black Panther Party Political Art - African-American History Through the Arts 
  Chicano Art Resource Guide
For more on specific time periods in American art, check out my Table of Contents page. 
Also, check out my Art by Period and Artists pages.


PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART
TIMELINE: Photography 
  ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Prints & Photographs
  The History of Photography - Timeline and History
  Alphabetical Index of Photographers
  "P" | Subject Index | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History - Scroll down to "Photograph" for many links to information!
   "Photographer" | Artist Index | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History 
  Photojournalism | Subject Index | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
  A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat
     American Museum of Photography (SM) -- View Great Photographs Online 
  National Media Museum - Welcome
MASTERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY - FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY 
  Corbis--stock photography and pictures 
  Encyclopaedia of USA History: Photography 
  PEOPLE'S LIVES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC CELEBRATION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT 
  George Eastman House - Museum of Photography & Film - George Eastman House America Seen Series 
History of Photography & The Camera 
  America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
  The American Experience | George Eastman: The Wizard of Photography - George Eastman House: Photographers 
  Kodak: History of Kodak - Kodak and the Rise of Amateur Photography 
   Masters of Photography
  Women in Photography Archive - Gallery 
    Fixing Shadows: Still Photography 
The Daguerreian Society and the Daguerreotype - Resources - The Daguerreian Society: The Gold Rush Images
Mathew Brady NY Studio - MATTHEW BRADY PORTRAITS - TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  Panoramic Photographs from the National Archives
  Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian  
  The Photographic World of William Coupon
   The Photographs Division
  JACOB RIIS REFORMER- PHOTOGRAPHER: A GALLERY - BIOGRAPHY OF JACOB RIIS - Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Photographer, Journalist, Social Reformer 
  Photographers during : 1930's to 1940's 
  Documenting the 1930s - Photographing the Representative American: Margaret Bourke-White in the Depression - Age of Lost Innocence: Photographs of Childhood Realities and Adult Fears During the Great Depression 
  American Photography: Presidential Image Making 
   LIFE photo archive hosted by Google - Covers Photo Galleries and Pictures - LIFE - 100 Photographs that Changed the World by LIFE - The Digital Journalist 
  "FLASH! The Associated Press Covers the World" 
  Documentary PhotographyEarly Documentary Photography - The New Documentary Tradition in Photography
  Photography and Everyday Life in America, 1945–60 
  Photography As A Research Method 
  Photography as Factor in Social Development 
   Walker Evans Project - Walker Evans Images - Walker Evans (1903–1975) 
The Sub Club - subminiature photography
One hundred Years of Film Sizes.
  Stereoviews.info - Antique Stereoview Information and Resources  
  Smithsonian Photographers Shoot Fireworks
  Alfred Stieglitz - New Perspectives - Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and American Photography
  Portrait of Black Chicago 
American Photography: Photography and War
American Photography: A Century of Images  
  Looking Back on the American Century 
  Picturing the Century 
  Art and Photography: The 1980s - 1990s–Present
  Conceptual Art and Photography 
Journal E : Real Stories From Planet Earth
   Photo Critique
Welcome to ---*** F o t o F o r u m ***--- 
  TAKEgreatPICTURES.com - Home Page 
   The Magic Lantern Society - Home Page
  WCMA - Moving Pictures - American Art & Early Film, 1880-1910 
  The Complete History of the Discovery of Cinematography
   Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive 
  Does The Camera Ever Lie?
 
  For more on photography as a chronicle of historical events, please check out specific time periods/topics on my Table of Contents page. For info on Motion Pictures, check out my Movies page. 

Yep, that's me in a portrait by the American artist John Singer Sargent! 

 

 Did you know? When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

GRAFFITI
Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall

TAPESTRIE
S & TEXTILES
History of Textiles - textiles: History - Antique Textile History - The Textile System - Textile History
  Tapestry Art: History, Famous Tapestries - The History of Eastern and Oriental Tapestry Art - History of Tapestries - A Brief History of Tapestries in American Decor - history of tapestries and textiles - Google Search - Brief History of Tapestries - Bayeux tapestry - Bayeux Tapestry Highlights History and Construction
  The Silk Road - Ancient Pathway to the Modern World
 

ART GLASS
Glass Encyclopedia
  The History of Glass - History of Glass and Glassmaking
  A Brief History of Stained Glass
Chihuly 
      Tiffany Studios Research Center
   Doge of Venice: Murano
Glass Museum On Line from Angela Bowey
  Corning Museum of Glass - Kids and Teens Free! (19 and under)
  Hot Topics at Glass Art Society
 

FOCUS ON HEALTH
Art Therapy

ART THEFT!!!
Federal Bureau of Investigation - Art Theft Program
  Art Theft Central
  Art Theft - World's Most Wanted Art
  Sources of Information on Antiquities Theft
  Theft of the Mona Lisa
  Documenting Nazi Plunder of European Art
  How Greatest War in history became a war for history | The Greatest Theft in History
  Monuments Men Foundation - The Monuments Men - List of The Monuments Men | The Monuments Men
  Documenting Nazi Plunder of European Art


MISC. TOPICS
World Wide Arts Resources - The Definitive Arts and Culture Information
  Devices of Wonder (Getty Exhibitions) - Teaching Tools 
Arts Journal: Daily Arts News
     Treasures of the World Home Page: Stories Behind the World's Art
NetSERF: Art 
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore & Learn - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Themes & Cultures 
World Art Treasures  
World Myths and Legends in Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts) 
  World Folk Art & Craft Exchange 
Art Supplies, Art store at MisterArt.com!  
   Trompe l'oeil: The Art of Deception - ArtLex on Trompe l'Oeil - Trompe l'oeil 
  Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
g l o b a l * c o l l a g e * h o m e You can submit your own art that will be shown on a wall in New York City.
Shakespeare Illustrated - Art to Enchant: Illustrators and Shakespeare
  THAIS.IT - Italian Sculptures 
   Art to the People
    Furniture Styles : History of Furniture
  TIMELINE: Crayola Crayon Colors
  



A little bit of craziness!!! Is this art???? Some people say yes!

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