Humanities: Art & Architecture Topics: Web Sites

Maintained by the University of Michigan, this is a collection of website links related to art and the study of the arts. Includes research resources, online visual collections, art museums, and online exhibits.

A Sweet Briar College site that links to information by historical period and by geographic area

A database of 20th century and contemporary visual artists. The masters since 1900 are represented with their portraits, dates and places of birth -and death-, links to web resources, images of their work, biographies and articles, and the artists' personal websites.

Explore over 1000 great buildings from around the world and across history

Explore sections on Art History, Art (Modern and Contemporary), and Architecture.

The J.-E. Berger Foundation extensive slide database

A helpful online text for college students writing for art history courses

Museum holdings include: art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt; paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters; an extensive collection of American and modern art; and extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art.

The collection includes paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts, which traces the development of Western Art to the present.

A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture between the years 1150 and 1800. Artists Index, biographies, guided tours.

The collection includes, Greek and Roman antiquities, European drawings, paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts and American and European photographs from the 19th century to the present.

Browse art images by media, nationality of the artist, or subject term. Covers 20th and 21st century artists.

Includes over 108,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.

Access to thousands of fine arts images. Registration required to save images.

A collaboration between Google and 151 museums from across 40 countries. U.S. museums include the The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection in New York; the National Gallery of Art and The White House in Washington D.C.; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

A copyright-free image collection that includes ancient, medieval and Renaissance European art and architecture.

A collection of thousands of art objects, sites and buildings.

Database of more than 75,000 images of art objects from around the world, covering all periods of history.