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General Art Resources

Imagen

University of Arizona, School of Art and College of Architecture, Online Image Database. Authorized Users only.

ArtSTOR

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data, tools to actively use those images. Authorized/UA users only.

Grove Art Online

The Grove Dictionary of Art is a unique central reference source for the humanities in general: history, geography, theology, anthropology, archaeology, Classics and cultural studies, are some of the fields for which The Dictionary provides a global and in-depth introduction.

Metropolitan Museum of Art- Art History Timeline

The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

Getty Research Tools

Contains terms, names, and other information about people, places, things, and concepts relating to art, architecture, and material culture.

Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)

The AAT is a structured vocabulary database of more than 133,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.

Union List of Artists’ Names (ULAN)

The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing more than 225,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.

Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

The TGN is a structured, world-coverage vocabulary of 1.3 million names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

ARTSOURCE

Networked resources on Art and Architecture including libraries, events, images, museum information, exhibitions, etc.

David Rumsey Visual Collections

View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections.

Art and Architecture, Courtauld Institute of Art

More than 40,000 images and a network of over half a million links.

World Art Kiosk, California State University San Jose (Kathleen Cohen)

WorldArt image database allows you to search over 35,000 images from throughout the world. Created by Kathleen Cohen with other faculty, staff and students of the California State University.

Architecture

Great Buildings Collection

More than 800 great buildings from around the world and across history are listed below and illustrated at this web with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models.

ArchNET Digital Library

Online community for architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.

Museums

United States

• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Los Angeles Museum of Art
• Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
• Smithsonian Museums

England

• British Museum, London
• British Library, London

France

• Musee du Louvre, Paris
• Musee d’Orsay, Paris

Spain

• Museo del Prado, Madrid

Italy

• Vatican Museums, Rome
• Uffizzi Gallery, Florence