Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Fine Art on the Internet : A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources
Web Gallery of Art: This award-winning (Britannica, BBC, Scout Report) site presents 10,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years of 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures include commentary and the site contains biographies of the significant artists.
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia - Powered by IBM: This interactive site includes hundreds of images of artworks collected since the museum's founding in 1764. Also included are images of the museum's buildings and ornate aarchitecture.
WebMuseum: Famous Paintings exhibition: The WebMuseum, Paris is a site that indexes artists and themes in art from the Gothic period through Pop Art of the 20th century. It is a great source for art classes to search for painter and historical context of painting. Though limited, this is a good place for beginning art students to see a historical overview.
Louvre Museum Official Website: This site includes images from the collections of the Louvre Museum representing works of art dating from the birth of the great Mediterranean civilizations until the middle of the 19th century.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.: This site provides a wealth of interactive images from the National Gallery's approximately 2,300 pieces of art representing Western European painting, and covers every European school of painting from approximately 1260 to 1900.
National Gallery, London/Homepage: One of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. This site provides a wealth of interactiveimages from the National Gallery's approximately 2,300 pieces of art representing Western European painting, and covers every European school of painting from approximately 1260 to 1900.
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