• Art webgraphie: Répertoire des ressources en histoire de l'art de la Renaissance à nos jours (maintained by Anne-Marie Bogaert-Damin, through Bibliothèque Universitaire Moretus Plantin [BUMP], Namur, Belgium)
• Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources (Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• ArtSource (Mary Molinaro)
• The Art History Network
• Voice of the Shuttle (Alan Liu, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara)
• Mother of All Art History Links Pages (Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan), with sections devoted to:
  • A Sampling of Art History Departments
  • Research Resources
  • Image Collections and Online Art
  • A Sampling of Exhibits Online
  • Museums
  • Textual and Linguistic Resources
• Art on the Web (Jeffery Howe, Boston College)
• CODART list of museums with significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art (the Instituut Collectie Nederland)
• Art History Index, through World Wide Art Resources
• Art History (Yahoo list)
• Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library
• Architecture and Building Web Resources (Jeanne Brown, Architecture Studies Library, University of Nevada Las Vegas)
• Architecture Web Sites (maintained by Prof. Jeffery Howe, Boston College)
• Aesthetics and Visual Culture (lists of links provided by Bruce B. Janz)

IMAGE RESOURCES (slides, photographs, digital images, film, video)
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• New York Public Library Digital Gallery
• State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (unofficial site with images of most of the museum's collection of paintings)
• Museum area (alphabetical listing of many artists of various nationalities and a selection of their works, through Russian Paintings)
• Courtauld Colour Slide Scheme
• Corsair: Images from the Pierpoint Morgan Library's Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• Prometheus - Das verteilte digitale Bildarchiv für Forschung & Lehre e.V.
• Alinari, Florence, with an on-line digital catalogue of 200,000 pictures for research and study and selected by leading university professors in Italy and Europe
• AKG: Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte, mit über 9 Millionen Bildern das historische Universalarchiv in Europa
• ICCD: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione, Ministero per i Beni e le Attivata Culturali (Italy)
• The Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives, over 40000 digital high resolution images covering fine arts, archaeology, religion, landscapes, historical places and portraits of historical personalities
• Archivision, the image resource for architecture, landscapes, public art and design (slides and digital files)
• The Bridgeman Art Library, London (source of art images for publication)
• Photographs of Archaeological Sites, through Peter Langer, Associated Media Group
• The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) (part of the Arts & Humanities Data Service - AHDS) providing, preserving and promoting quality digital resources for the visual arts
• Image Provider Directory (maintained by Don Beetham)
• The Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art
• Art on Film Online
• Stock Video (Large selection of royalty-free high definition stock footage. Preview each clip online)
• Internet ArtResources (a gateway to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions)
• Art Resource, New York
• Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York (represents the copyright & intellectual property interests of the world's foremost artists)
• Scholars Resource (high quality digital images for teaching art history)
• Davis Art Images (high-quality fine art digital images for pre-K to graduate studies)
• Universal Art Images
• Art on File (images of art, architecture and design)
• Corbis Corporation (commercial site for stock photography and digital images)
• Foto Search Stock Photography and Footage (commercial site)
• Travel Photo Base World Image Collection (commercial site)
• AnthroArcheArt.org (a large selection of royalty free digital images for purchase)
• artdoc.de: Image Library for Contemporary Art (Roman Mensing)
• ArchArt, art and archaeology images (Giovanni Lattanzi)
• ArtOnLine
• Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), with links to:
  • Ancient
  • Medieval
  • Renaissance & Baroque
  • 18th - 20th Century
  • Non-Western
• WorldImages, almost 65,000 images, global in coverage, includes all areas of visual imagery
• Africa-related images, including Ancient Egypt (African Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
• Olga's Gallery, organized by:
  • Artist Index
  • Country Index
  • Movement Index
  • Name Index
• Artchive (Mark Harden)
• Collage, a searchable image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London, including a link to Highlights of the Collections
• Surveys of Art History (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
  • by Artist
  • by Country
  • by Medium
• Western Art and Architecture (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
  • Country
  • Site
  • Type
• Buildings and Structures, through Cupola (Howard Partridge), with links to:
  • Ancient & Classical Architecture
  • Southwest American Indian Ruins
  • Medieval Architecture
  • Renaissance & Mannerist Architecture
  • Baroque, Rococo, & Neoclassical Architecture
  • Colonial & Early American Architecture
  • 19th & Early 20th Cent. Victorians and Revivals
  • Art Nouveau Architecture
  • Works by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • 20th Century and Modern Architecture
  • Bridges, Dams, & Other Structures
  • Miscellaneous Architectural Images
• Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from Greece to Post-Modernism (Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College, Ohio), with links to images through
  • Index of Places
  • Index of Artists and Architects
  • Chronological Index
• The WebMuseum, Paris (North Carolina mirror site)
• The Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures
• Paintings - Directory.com (Victor Reny)
• Fine Art Menu (Bert Christensen)
• PopArt.com, a databank and inventory of Pop Art on the internet

ARTISTS
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• America's Distinguished Artists, a national registry of historic artists (through Traditional Fine Art Online, Inc.)
• Visual Artists Index (World Wide Arts Resources)
• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet (John Malyon)
• artpx.com (Bernard Huyvaert), with links to:
  • Early Netherlandish Painting
  • Dutch Art 17th century
  • Pictures in the Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Quattrocento
  • Pozzo - S. Ignazio
• Renaissance to Modern Artists, through Carol Gerten's Fine Art, A Virtual Art Museum
• Web Gallery of Art (created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
  • Artists
  • Tours
    • Overview of Italian Painters from 1200 to 1750
    • Overview of Sculptors from 1200 to 1700
    • The Art of Giotto
    • Visit to the church San Francesco in Arezzo: Piero della Francesca's fresco cycle
    • Visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican
    • Visit to the Brancacci Chapel in the church Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence
    • Narrative Fresco Cycles of Benozzo Gozzoli
    • Painting in the Low Countries (1400-1700)
    • Art in Siena in the 13th-16th centuries
    • Art in Spain in the 12th-17th centuries
    • Painting of the International Gothic
    • Early Flemish Altarpieces
    • French Art in the 15th-18th Centuries
    • British Art in the 15th-18th Centuries
    • Art in the Germanic Countries between 1450 ans 1550
• Index of Artists (through the WebMuseum, Paris)
• Images from the Fine Art Collection, Special Collections, California State University Library

IMAGE FINDERS
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• Google Image Search
• AltaVista Image Search
• Corbis: The Place for Pictures on the Internet
• Image Finder (The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE)
• Ditto visual search

VISUAL RESOURCES, NETWORKS AND PROJECTS
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• Visual Resources Association (VRA)
• Academic Image Cooperative (AIC)
• Digital Media Lab(Robertson Media Center, University of Virginia)
• UC Berkeley Museum Informatics Project (MIP)
• Center for Art and Media (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe
• AcIS Imaging (Columbia University)
• Visual Media Center (Columbia University)
• The Medici Archive Project
• The Digital Michelangelo Project (Marc Levoy, Stanford University)

RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY
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• smARThistory, a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook (Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker)
• Bridgeman Education, providing access to the visual culture of every civilization from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica and every period from prehistoric times to the present
• An Introductory Guide to Research in Modern and Contemporary Art ( prepared by Benjamin Lima)
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• The Site for Research on William Hogarth (1697-1764), including a bibliography (Bernd Krysmanski)
• KunstbuchAnzeiger (books in German on art, design, architecture, photography)
• Provincetown Artist Registry
• Artists' Papers Register (a location register of papers and primary sources relating to artists, designers and craftspeople held in publicly accessible collections in the United Kingdom)
• Centrum voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (CKD), Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen
• Palau de la Música Catalana (The Barcelona Music Hall, 1906). A methodological approach to interpreting the building, by Frederic Chordà (in Catalan)
• ArtLex dictionary of visual art (Michael Delahunt), including longer articles on the following topics
  • allegory
  • animation
  • architect
  • architecture
  • arms & armor
  • art
  • artist
  • bronze
  • caricature
  • cartoon
  • ceramics
  • collage
  • color
  • copyright
  • costume
  • creativity
  • design
  • drawing
  • earth art
  • engraving
  • etching
  • expression
  • folk art
  • furniture
  • genre
  • glass
  • gold
  • hieroglyphics
  • history painting
  • icon
  • illumination
  • jewelry
  • landscape
  • light
  • lithography
  • Madonna
  • map
  • marble
  • mask
  • monument
  • movement
  • mural
  • museum
  • mythology
  • narrative art
  • nature
  • nocturne
  • nude
  • numismatics
  • painting
  • palette
  • panorama
  • paper
  • pastel
  • pattern
  • photography
  • plaster
  • porcelain
  • portrait
  • poster
  • praise
  • quotations
  • readymade
  • relief
  • sculpture
  • seascape
  • seeing
  • self-portrait
  • silkscreen
  • silver
  • stained glass
  • steel
  • still life
  • studio
  • tapestry
  • tattoo
  • teacher
  • tessellation
  • text
  • textile
  • trompe l'oeil
  • vessel
  • video
  • watercolor
  • woodcut
• Art History: A Preliminary Handbook (Robert Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
• Writing About Art (Marjorie Munsterberg, The City College of New York)
• Yahoo's Art History Subject Listing
• Words of Art: An On-Line Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts: A through Z (Robert Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
• intute: art and humanities
• Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece (Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Tufts University) - Art and Archaeology, which access to:
  • Architecture Catalog
  • Site Catalog
  • Coin Catalog
  • Vase Catalog
  • Sculpture Catalog
• The Beazley Archive (University of Oxford)
• The National Art Library, London: a research and reference library based at the Victoria and Albert Museum
• Visual Arts, a searchable database of Russian art and artists (through From Russia with Art)
• Russian Art (George Mitrevski, Auburn University)
• The Medici Archive Project, focusing on the Archive of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1537-1743), housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, Italy
• Forschungsarchiv für Antike Plastik (Universität zu Köln, Archäologisches Institut)
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison), including links to
  • Electronic Facsimiles - Digitized texts from the University of Wisconsin Libraries and the Chipstone Foundation
  • Documents - Primary Sources, Journals, and more
  • Images - Chipstone images, image databases, virtual exhibits
  • Resources - Associations, libraries and archives, museums, guides, directories, dictionaries and more
• The JOCONDE Database: Catalogue des Collections des Musés de France: Archéologie, beaux-arts, arts décoratifs, ethnologie, histoire, sciences et techniques
• Direction des Musées de France Catalogue collectif des bibliothèques des musées nationaux (the union catalogue of the libraries of the French national museums, which includes 24 libraries specializing in art and archaeology. The database is available free and already gives access to some 170,000 records for monographs, serials and CD-Roms, in a wide range of languages. More is being added )
• NICE Paintings: The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (an inventory of all the 22,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings in public collections in the UK, created by the National Inventory Research Project, based at the University of Glasgow)
• Digital Archive of Art, Online images from Boston College (Jeffery Howe), with links to:
  • American Architecture, 17th-20th centuries
  • European Architecture
  • 18th Century Painting
• The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive (Ohio State University)
• The Costume Gallery (Online Research Library for fashion and costume, maintained by Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier)
• La Couturiére Parisienne (period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century)
• Costume History (through The Costumer's Manifesto, maintained by Tara Maginnis, University of Alaska Fairbanks), providing links to
  • Pre-Historic & Babylonian; and Biblical
  • Ancient Egyptian
  • Ancient Greece and Environs
  • Ancient Roman
  • Byzantine
  • Barbarian Europe
  • Medieval Europe
  • Italian Renaissance
  • 16th Century/Northern European Renaissance
  • 17th Century
  • 18th Century
  • Regency and Empire
  • Victorian Era
  • Edwardian Era
  • 1911-1920
  • 1920's
  • 1930's
  • 1940's
  • 1950's
  • 1960's
  • 1970's
  • 1980's
  • 1990's
  • 2000's
• The Index of Christian Art, Princeton. The Index of Christian Art is available online on a subscription basis.
• Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (surveys, interprets and records the built heritage of Wales)
• Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame)
• The Vatican Library
• The Canadian Architectural Archives
• CoOL: Conservation OnLine, Resources for Conservation Professionals
• Archiving the Avant-Garde
• The Warburg Institute, London
• Corsair, the online catalog of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
• Kunsthistorische Institut in Florenz
• Dutch University Institute for Art History, IUO, DUIA, NIKI, Florence
• Bibliotheca Hertziana (Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte), Rome
• Institut für Kunstgeschichte, University of Vienna
• Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
• Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
• Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität, Bonn
• Kunstgeschichte-Online.com
• The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) focuses on Western and particularly Dutch visual art from the Late Middle Ages to the present day
• Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität, Zurich
• Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich/Lausanne
• Villa I Tatti, Florence (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
• CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network
• The Getty
  • A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
  • AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus)
  • Categories for the Description of Works of Art
  • Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
  • Introduction to Imaging
  • ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)
• International Directory of Art Libraries (through International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA))
• The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)

BOOKS, REVIEWS, DISSERTATIONS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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Books

• Andrew D. Washton Books on the Fine Arts (Specialists in scholarly, out-of-print and rare books on the arts of the early Middle Ages to the mid-19th century)
• Davaco Publishers (16th and 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Art)
• George Braziller, New York
• Michael Shamansky, Bookseller (searchable database of books available)
• Lugt's Répertoire online (online edition of the Répertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques by Frits Lugt - subscription only)
• Casalini Libri, general Italian book dealers, Fiesole (Firenze), Italy
• Ars Libri, Ltd, rare and scholarly books on the fine arts
• Maremagnum Librorum, Antique, secondhand and out of print books
• Arts of India Catalogue, including Books on Art History published in India (Vedams Books International, New Delhi, India)
• Vietnam Art Books (a Montreal-based publisher with the close support of U.S., Canadian and Vietnam artists and educators)
  Reviews
  
• CAA Reviews, an online peer review of new books relevant to the fields of art history
• Kunstform: Rezensionsjournal zur Kunstgeschichte
• sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften
  Dissertations
  
• UMI's Online Dissertation Services
  Bibliographies
  
• The Literature of Art by E. H. Gombrich, with a Supplement (translated from the German by Max Marmor), Arts Library, Yale University
• The Wellek Library Lecturer Bibliographies (bibliographies of people who have spoken at the University of California, Irvine), including
  • Jacques Derrida
  • K. Hillis Miller
  • Jean-François Lyotard
  • Louis Marin
  • Murray Krieger
  • Edward Said
  • Hélène Cixous
  • Fredric Jameson
  • Geoffrey Hartman
  • Evelyn Fox Keller
  • Wolfgang Iser
  • Rosalind Krauss
  • Étienne Balibar
  • Harry D. Harootunian
  • Judith Butler
  • Jean Baudrillard
• Researching Your Art Object (Jeffrey Weideman's Reference Bibliographies)
• Karla Huebner's Feminist Art History Bibliography
• International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography by Alexander C. T. Geppert, Jean Coffey and Tammy Lau
• Nexus Virtual Library, an annotated bibliography of research references in architecture and mathematics (through Nexus Network Journal, an online research resource for studies in architecture and mathematics edited by Kim Williams)

ONLINE JOURNALS AND PERIODICAL SEARCHES
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Journals

• Kunstgeschichte. Open Peer Reviewed Journal, an open access journal sponsored by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
• Burlington Magazine (Contents only)
• Different Visions: A Journal of New Perspectives on Medieval Art, a web-based, open-access, peer-reviewed annual, devoted to progressive scholarship on medieval art
• American Art, the online edition of the journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
• Artforum
• Nexus Network Journal, a peer-reviewed online research resource for studies in architecture and mathematics (Kim Williams)
• Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, a journal of nineteenth-century visual culture
• n.paradoxa, an international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices
• TRANS> arts.cultures.media, a bilingual cultural publication with a focus in the visual arts
• PART, a journal of art history and visuality (Art History Department at the Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York)
• Resource Library Magazine, America's Magazine for the Representational Arts (through Traditional Fine Art Online, Inc.)
• Tout-Fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal
• Cosmopolis (English edition) (Louis Gerber www.cosmopolis.ch Switzerland)
• Aurora: The Journal of the History of Art (Contents only)
• ArtNexus (a magazine on Latin American art)
• Master Drawings, a quartely journal published by the Master Drawings Association
• Peregrinations, Official Publication of the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
  Scholarly Searches
  
• IngentaConnect, search for articles, chapters, reports and more

ONLINE ART NEWSPAPERS & ARTS NEWS
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• The Art Tribune (Didier Rykner's La Tribune de l'Art in English), the latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930s, with an Exhibition Calendar
• Observatoire Critique des ressources numériques en histoire de l'art et archéologie. See also the newsletter in French and in English (Corinne Welger-Barboza)
• The Art Newspaper.com
• Art Daily, The First Art Newspaper on the Net
• Arts Journal
• Arts & Letters Daily
• e-Art Magazine, European Art Magazine (in Italian)
• Art Knowledge News, online news magazine
• Art-of-the-Day Info: what's on in Europe
• Artfacts.Net, the international gallery guide for modern, contemporary and emerging art
• BBC Online - Arts, with a link to Art
• Asian Art, The Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries

BLOGS
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• Arts Journal Blogs, including
  • Aesthetic Grounds Public Art, Public Space
  • Artopia John Perreault's art diary
  • CultureGrrl Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
  • Modern Art Notes Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
• Art History Newsletter synopsis of news and opinion of interest to art historians plus original reporting on conferences, lectures, and other special events (Jonathan Lackman)
• the art history blog, a collection of articles, essays, reviews, and news about art, art history, and museums, written by a group of art-obsessed undergraduates
• Smarthistory Blog, thoughts on teaching & technology (Beth Harris & Steven Zucker)
• hatchets and skewers, an incisive contemporary arts journal
• Looking Around, reflections on art and architecture by TIME's critic Richard Lacayo
• The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research
• The Thinking Eye (Arthur Whitman)
• C-Monster.net, covering the art industry and its many, many by-products
• Art Fag City, New York art news, reviews and gossip (Paddy Johnson)
• Bearded Roman, a blog about art in the classical tradition
• Art Observed, global contemporary art events and news observed from New York City
• Artblog.net (Franklin Einspruch)
• Artworld Salon, a moderated discussion focused upon the fast-paced transformations currently taking place in the global artworld
• Eva Lake, about art and artists
• FutureModern, musings on possibilities for the future
• Gallery Hopper
• Life Without Buildings, observations on the built environment, with a penchant towards pop culture and Postmodernism
• Our Daily Red, the blog from New England's online art journal Big RED & Shiny!
• The Art Law Blog
• Art Blog by Bob
• TheWarholInfluence.com, about the ongoing influence of Andy Warhol's philosophy in the 21st century
• UCLA Arts Library Art and Art History Blog