Art Directories:

  • ADAM: The gateway to art, design, architecture and media information
    ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway, is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources selected and categorized by librarians in Great Britain.

  • Artsource
         Artsourse is a selective guide for art and architecture resources gathered by artists, librarians, and historians.

  • Art on the Web
    A collective art guide that lists sites for a wide array of topics ranging from art education, databases, books, and film sources.

  • Artists from Yahoo!
         Yahoo's directory for anything art on the Internet.

Antiques and Collectibles:

Architecture:

Art History:

Art Reference:

  • ArtLex – On-line Art Dictionary
         This dictionary has definitions for more than 3,100 terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.

  • Bulfinch's Mythology
    Bulfinch's Mythology is a guide to fables, mythology, chivalry, and Charlemagne.  Each section has detailed stories, descriptions, and images.

  • Symbols.com
         SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.

Clip Art:

Image Archives:

  • ArtServe: Art & Architecture
         Guide to architectural images from around the world.

  • CGFA [Fine Arts]
    Listing of popular art images categorized by artist and time period.

  • Digital Archive of Art
         Boston College provides digital images of famous works of art and sculpture categorized by time period, style, and artist.

  • Digital Imaging Project
         Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.

  • Mark Harden's Artchive
         Digital galleries for many famous artists.

  • Mythology in Western Art
         The object of Mythmedia project is to form a collection of art images relating to Classical mythology consisting of scanned images from various periods of Western art which depict the deities, and heroes mentioned in Homer.  The images are classified according to the names of the various deities and heroes.

  • Web Gallery of Art
         The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 9,200 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available. Free postcard service is provided for the visitors.

  • World Art Treasures
         The principal purpose of World Art Treasures is to promulgate the discovery and love of art. Thanks to the 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, all of them devoted to art, and including the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe, its purpose is to offer a different approach to art through Internet. Taking advantage of the specificity of a multidimensional and multilevel network, it is an attempt to shed new light on art and a new way of contemplating it.

  • Yahoo! Master Painters
         Yahoo's listing of master painters both past and present.

Museums:

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
         Information pertaining to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its collections.

  • Museums Around the USA
         The United States has the most developed on-line museum information network of any country in the world. In fact, the number of US museum websites may be greater than combined number of museum websites in the rest of the world! As the primary museum web listing, the Virtual Library museum pages receive more than 2000 "visitors" each day.

  • Museums Around the World
    Museums of the world are listed according to continent and country.

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
         Online site for the Museum of Modern Art showcasing its collections.

  • National Gallery of Art
         Online site for the National Gallery of Art showcasing its collections.

  • National Museum of American Art
         Online site for the National Museum of American Art showcasing its collections.

  • The Smithsonian
         Online site for the Smithsonian showcasing its collections.

Photography and Photographs:

  • American Museum of Photography
         View online exhibits of American photography.

  • Fodor's Focus on Photography
         With the assistance of author and photographer Jeff Wignall, Fodor's has put together an invaluable guide to shooting great travel pictures: Nearly 100 easy-to-follow tips, with accompanying photos, covering every aspect of travel photography.

  • Masters of Photography
         Listing of photographers with information about their lives and work.

  • Photo.net
         Galleries of photography, news articles, and shops.

  • PhotoArts - Fine Art Photography
         Online gallery and marketplace pertaining to photography.

  • Photography Web Resources
         Photography Web Resources represents a starting point for finding photography related organizations, groups, individuals, and/or companies with an internet presence.

Sculpture: