- Aesthetics on-line
Web site for the American Society for Aesthetics - African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
Exhibition of African artifacts, including masks and statues from WEst Africa. - The Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Here you can find nearly 120,000 terms in art and architecture. - Art Guide: The Art Lover’s Guide to Britain and Ireland
Contains much information–over 1900 artists, museums, and exhibitions in the British Isles. - Art History Research Centre
- Art History: Resources on the Web
- ArtLex Art Dictionary
- Chicano Visual Arts Digital Image Collection
500 images and descriptions from the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UC Santa Barbara library. - Digital Archive of Art
Slides of works by artists such as Michelangelo, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Gaugin, Van Gogh, Rodin, etc. Maintained by a professor at Boston College for use in his classes. - Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
Images from the Middle Ages, including descriptions, floor plans and locations of buildings. - National Gallery of Art
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
At this site you can find information about the Museum and search the collection. - State Hermitage Museum
Virtual tour of this great Russian museum, founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great. - Tate Gallery
Contains the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present. About 11,000 images can be viewed online. - Virtual Library Museums Directory of Online Museums
- Webmuseum-Paris
- Women Artists of the American West
Specific Artists
- Van Gogh’s Life and Times
An interactive timeline of Van Gogh’s life with much information about the artist and images of some of his paintings. From the Vincent Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. - Leonardo da Vinci
Architecture
- Architecture of the Getty Center
- Great Buildings Online
Directory of about 800 buildings, with architect, descriptions of buildings and some photos. Want to see what the Air Force Academy Chapel looks like? Here’s the place to look. - The Art and Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Here you can find nearly 120,000 terms in art and architecture. - Frank Lloyd Wright
PBS offers this site which grew out of a documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Includes lengthy quotations from Wright’s autobiography and from newspapers and magazines. Good introduction to this famous American architect, with a locator to locate the nearest FLW-built buildings. See also the Library of Congress site - Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape.
Library of Congress site - Italy in Virtual Reality
See sites in Rome, Pisa, Naples (for example, the Coliseum, Pantheon, Hadrian’s Villa). Provides a 360 degree view for each site. - Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
Images from the Middle Ages, including descriptions, floor plans and locations of buildings. - A Digital Archive of American Architecture
About 1500 images of American architecture from the personal collection of slides and photographs of a faculty member at Boston College.
Photography
- A History of Photography
Events and inventors in the development of photography.
