Scope: This guide leads to Internet resources primarily on art, artists, and art history, with a concentration on the latter. Some links to Internet resources on architecture and photograph are also provided Choose from among the following: 1. Gateways 2. Image Collections 3. Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions 4. Reference Sources Gateways to Art, Architecture, and Photography Sites (Meta-Sites) ArtsEdNet ("online services supporting arts education") ArtSource (networked resources in art and architecture) Mother of All Art History Pages Rutgers University Art Resources Guide (good place to start) Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page Voice of the Shuttle: Photography Page (a comprehensive registry of arts information on the Internet)   Image Collections Art History Resources on the Web (chronological arrangement; strong emphasis toward Western Art) Art Images for College Teaching (arrangement by major Western European historical periods and also by Non-Western Art) Artcyclopedia "a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources." Offers 14,000 direct links to the painting and sculpture of over 5,500 artists. Good for the works of contemporary artists) ArtServe (art and architecture historical images mostly from the Medieval Basin) (more than 6000 images from medieval to the early 20th century. A biographical sketch from Microsoftâs Encarta is available for some artists.) Digital Imaging Project (art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture") Famous Paintings Exhibition [WebMuseum] (arranged by artist and thematically) Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Art Imagebase (more than 60,000 works by 15,000 artists) Index of American Design ("approximately 18,000 watercolor renderings of American decorative arts objects from the colonial period through the nineteenth century") The Perseus Project: Art and Architecture (visual images from the ancient world) SPIRO (links to 32,000 images from the Architecture Slide Library of U. Cal. Berkeley) World Wide Art Resources ("access to over 15,000 artists and their paintings, photography, sculpture, design and much more")   Architectural Image Collections Digital Archive of American Architecture ( "over 900 digitized images of American architecture plus explanatory material") A Digital Archive of Architecture (concentrates on European architecture) The Great Buildings Collection Online (750 buildings from around the world)   Photographic Image Collections American Photographs: The First Century (National Museum of American Art) Smithsonian Photographs Online (photographs from Life and Time magazines)   Museums, Galleries and Exhibitions Art Museum Network ("the official website of the world's leading art museums") Gallery Guide Online WWW Virtual Library Museums Page (museums, galleries and archives arranged by country or continent and other ways; mirrors the "WWW Virtual Library Museums Around the World" site) World Wide Art Resources: Galleries and Exhibitions Index (arranged by country and by type) Major New York City Museums The Frick Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum of Arts & Design Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum   Reference Sources Biographical information on artists can accompany images of their work. See the "Image Collections" links above. ArtLex: Visual Arts Dictionary (contains definitions of more than 2,800 terms) Artnet Research Library (contains short excerpts of articles from the Grove Dictionary of Art) Brief Biographies of American Architects Who Died Between 1897 and 1947 (searchable database of over 32,800 historic structures and sites) Bibliographic Indexes Art Abstracts (indexing and abstracting of articles from the major periodicals in the field of art)   Please send any comments, corrections or suggestions to TroneT@Mail.Montclair.Edu   Last updated May 30, 2003