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Architecture
  • Great Buildings
    International in scope, organized geographically. Provides details about 800+ buildings, including photographs, architectural drawings, architect information, history, and in some cases, 3-D walkthroughs. Entries include bibliographic citations and links to related sites.
    http://www.greatbuildings.com/


Art History
  • Art History Resources on the Web
    Links to sites on all periods, styles, regions. Encyclopedic. (Christopher Witcombe, Sweet Briar College)
    http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html


  • Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine
    Searchable index to web sites that hold images or information relating to 5,000+ artists; mostly US or Western European. (John Malyon)
    http://artcyclopedia.com/


  • Mother of All Art and Art History Links
    A gateway to more than 400 sites from academic, museum, studio and commercial sources. (School of Art & Design, University of Michigan)
    http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother


  • Timeline of Art History
    An authoritative overview of the history of art, illustrated by objects from the MMA's collections. Still in development, covers prehistory to 1600 CE, planning to extend to the present. High quality graphics; links to additional resources. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm


  • Virtual Library Museum Pages
    A searchable directory of on-line museums, provides links to museums web pages worldwide. (Jonathan Bowen, International Council of Museums)
    http://www.icom.org/vlmp


Art Teacher Resources & Lesson Plans
  • ArtsEdge
    National arts and education network, offers free standards based teaching materials, professional development resources and student materials in dance, music, theater and the visual arts. (Kennedy Center)
    http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org


  • Education at the Getty - Lesson Plans
    From the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Lesson plans and other curricular resources for all levels of learners, relating art to all disciplines. (Getty Museum)
    http://www.getty.edu/education/search


  • Explore and Learn
    (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/index.asp


  • National Standards for Arts Education
    http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/standards.cfm


  • PBS Teacher Source : Arts and Literature
    Lessons and activities, many related to programs and series from PBS. Can search by grade level, K-12.
    http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit.htm


Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

  • Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online
    More than 125,000 terms covering fine art, architecture and decorative arts. More than a thesaurus, provides brief definitions of historic and contemporary terms. (J. Paul Getty Trust)
    http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/aat


  • ArtLex Art Dictionary
    Dictionary and pronunciation guide to over 3,500 art terms.(Michael Delahunt)
    http://www.artlex.com


  • ARTstor
    Digital library of over 300,000 art images and associated information. Prehistoric to contemporary, international in scope, includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts and design. To use, enable Java scripts, disable pop-up blockers.
    http://www.artstor.org


  • CAMIO
    Digital library of over 90,000 art images and associated information. Prehistoric to contemporary, international in scope, representing a broad range of works of art from collections of prominent museums. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts and design. (RLG)
    http://www.nclive.org


  • Grove Art Online
    Full text, searchable resource for scholarly articles on all aspects of the visual arts worldwide, from prehistory to the present day.
    http://www.groveart.com


  • Oxford Reference Online: Art and Architecture
    Search the full text of Oxford University Press Publications: A Dictionary of Architecture, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, The Oxford Dictionary of Art, and A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art. (Oxford Reference Online)
    http://www.oxfordreference.com


  • Painters Studio
    History, technique and other useful information about the broad variety of materials used in painting and drawing.
    http://www.paintersstudio.com


  • Union List of Artist's Names
    A searchable database of artist's names and their variant forms. It may help clarify the way an artist's name is spelled (especially helpful in cases of transliteration) or represented, with middle names, prefixes, hyphens, etc. Contains references to the sources cited for each artist. Strong for well-known historical artists, but with strange gaps for artists in the later part of the 20th century.(J. Paul Getty Museum)
    http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/index.html


Photography
  • American Photography: A Century of Images
    A century of images of cultural, historical and social importance. (Public Broadcasting System)
    http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography


  • ArtsMIA : Get the Picture
    Photographs by 7 photographers whose work is in the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, with information intended to help one learn about great photographs and the approaches used by the photographers to make them. (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
    http://www.artsmia.org/get-the-picture


  • Masters of Photography
    Articles, photographs, online resources on renowned photographers.
    http://www.masters-of-photography.com


 

In place: March 2001; Last updated: 7/24/2007
Bev Robertson, Reference Services Librarian
brobertson@mhc.edu
Renfro Library, Mars Hill College