99 Names of God [Allah] - "These 99 paintings reflects the name of God in arabic, each name has universal meanings, These names are sacred and holy and beyond any religion. I use traditional calligraphy for reference and to be accurate with spelling and rest with inspiration and paint, I wanted to paint each one as unique yet consistent to other and reflect the beauty of his name."
By Hafeez

Accent on Images: The Language of Illustrated Books - "This exhibition showcases illustrated books in modern foreign languages from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries selected from the rich and varied special collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges."
From the Special Collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges and curated by Judy Harvey Sahak.

African & Asian Visual Artists Archive (Aavaa) - "Aavaa, has grown to become the most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period ... The collection holds a diverse and distinctive range of material available for research. Aavaa's main objective is to document, collect and encourage reflection on the artistic developments that have taken place in Britain and internationally since the latter part of the twentieth century. The archive houses over 6,000 slides of artworks and exhibitions, as well as publications and videos about and by artists. There are over 200 individual artist folders, as well as curators, art historians, cultural critics and arts organisation files." Currently [07/06/01] around 2,000 digitized images from the collection are in the database. Part of vads - Visual Arts Data Service

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) - Photo Archive - "The AIIS collection from the Center for Art and Archaeology in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, has over 125,000 photographs in the collection. The images fall into the broad categories of architecture, sculpture, terracotta, painting and numismatics." Part of the Digital South Asia Library

American Photography: A Century of Images - In addition to thematic features such as Digital Truth, Persuasion, Art, Social Change, Cultural Identity the site also contains a fascinating Image Lab. PBS Online

ArtLex- Dictionary of Visual Art

Art Historian's Guide to the Movies

The Art of Botanical Illustration - An Exhibition in Special Collection, The University of Delaware. "...highlights selections from the University of Delaware's Special Collections which show the development of botanical illustration from early printed books to the present day. The primary goal of botanical illustration is not art, but scientific accuracy. It must portray a plant with the precision and level of detail for it to be recognized and distinguished from another species." Sections include: Herbals, Travel & Exploration ; Scientific Botany ; Women Artists ; Seed Catalogs ; Modern Botanicals. Curated by Iris Snyder.

Art of the First World War - "100 paintings from international collections to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War...An exhibition of 110 paintings brought together by the major history museums of Europe. World War I as seen by 54 painters on both sides." Under the patronage of UNESCO

ArtAtlas - The Database of Art Gallery Contact Information. "This database lets you find addresses of over 5000 international art galleries."

Artists and Architects - "Biographies of over 40 architects, artists, illustrators and cartoonists that worked in Britain between 1700 and 1900."
From The Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia, British History 1700-1920

Artists' Papers Register - "a location register of the papers of artists, designers and craftsman held in public accessible collections in the United Kingdom"

ARTFL (Treasury of French Language)

Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom - Online exhibit from the Library of Congress Swann Gallery of Caricature and Cartoon

Artists in Canada - "...compiled and maintained by the National Gallery of Canada Library, is a bilingual union list that identifies the location of documentation files on Canadian artists. Twenty-three libraries and art galleries across Canada have contributed biographical information and lists of their documentation files to create this resource which contains information for over 42 700 artists."

AskART.com - "Extensive Information on 24,000 North American Artists."  Includes "digital images, biographical documentation, book references, auction data, and the opportunity to engage in open forum dialogue on the subject of American artists."

AATA Online - Abstracts of International Conservation Literature. "...enhances the preservation of our global cultural patrimony by providing high quality, peer-reviewed abstracts of the international literature of conservation and heritage management in a free online database. Updated quarterly, AATA Online currently includes abstracts of over 100,000 citations, enabling practitioners from many fields of heritage preservation to identify and select resources relevant to their work." - The Getty

Aviation Nose Art and Pin-Ups - Sections include Pin-Up Influence ; Modern Nose Art ; Historic Nose Art ; Don Allen Gallery
From Historic Wings

Babel - "... Simon Biggs' 'Babel' references both the biblical and Borges stories, of course, but it is the domain of the workaday library it most directly invokes by borrowing the same information architecture - the Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) - albeit for a slightly different use...Most simply put, Biggs, a visual artist who has been working with digital technologies and exploring notions of computational interactivity since 1978, has created a 3D representation of the numbering scheme of the DDC, which 'Babel' then uses as an interface to navigate the World Wide Web. The implications of this strategy, however, are far from simple."

The Beazley Archive - "...has more than 2000 HTML pages with more than 5000 images, an illustrated dictionary of more than 300 pages, bibliographies for classical archaeology and history of collections and illustrated programs for students about pottery, sculpture and engraved gems. All of these programs are on-going."

University of Oxford - The Ashmolean Museum

Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network (BCIN) - "...is the Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property...A worldwide network of libraries and documentation centres contribute data on their combined holdings, including previously unavailable material from private sources, to the BCIN database...BCIN is a trusted resource for professionals, museums and other heritage organizations. It now contains nearly 200 000 citations, including the first 34 volumes of the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA), published between 1955 and 1997."

By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 - "...consists of 907 boldly colored and graphically diverse original posters produced from 1936 to 1943 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Of the 2,000 WPA posters known to exist, the Library of Congress's collection of more than 900 is the largest. These striking silkscreen, lithograph, and woodcut posters were designed to publicize health and safety programs; cultural programs including art exhibitions, theatrical, and musical performances; travel and tourism; educational programs; and community activities in seventeen states and the District of Columbia. The posters were made possible by one of the first U.S. Government programs to support the arts and were added to the Library's holdings in the 1940s."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

Campigli - The official web site of the Italian painter Massimo Campigli (1895-1971).  The design is a little busy but the site does host around 50 paintings.

The Cave of Lascaux (English, French or German) - In addition to the virtual tour this visually stunning site includes history of the discovery and the subsequent closing of the cave to the public in 1963.

Collage Portal - "An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London."

CPANDA: Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive - "An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture." Sections include: Data Archive ; Quick Facts ; Research Guides ; Other Links. - Princeton University Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

Diderot's Encyclopedie 

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - E-Facsimiles. "...collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America. Included are electronic texts and facsimiles, image databases, and Web resources...The project will provide access to digitized primary materials significant to the decorative arts and material culture of Early America. Materials for this project will range from Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, to a database of early American Furniture from the Chipstone Foundation."
Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Docs Populi - Searchable Database of Poster Art. "Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century."

Dr. Seuss Went to War: A Catalog of Political Cartoons By Dr. Seuss. 400 political cartoons by Theodor Seuss Geisel penned from 1941-1943 in the New York newspaper PM. Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego

Early Islamic Tiles - "and some related items formerly in the collection of Lockwood de Forest II." Scanned images of 102 tiles collected from the Middle East and North Africa in the late nineteenth century.

Electronic Renaissance- Images

The Fantastic in Art and Fiction - "Sponsored by Cornell University’s Institute for Digital Collections (CIDC) this image-bank provides a visual resource for the study of the Fantastic or of the supernatural in fiction and in art. While the site emerges from a comparative literature course on the topic at Skidmore College, it is also intended to open the door to consideration of some of the constant structures and patterns of fantastic literature, and the problems they raise. In this sense, the materials presented here may find a use among students in a variety of disciplines ... Approximately 300 images from over 80 books reside in this database. They may be perused by subject via the links on the homepage and in the navigation bar at the bottom of each page." Academic Info's Award for Best Site of August 2001

The Floating World of Ukiyo-E - "'Ukiyo-e' (translated as pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world) is a showcase of the Library's spectacular holdings of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries. These works are complemented by related works from the Library's collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists into the 20th century." Library of Congress exhibition

The George Ortiz Collection - "...works of art from Greece, as well as from some of its forerunners, Mesopotamia and Egypt, and its peripheral cultures spanning a period of time from the Neolithic to the Byzantine Empire; also sculptures from Africa, Pre-Columbian America and the Pacific... this web site offers the full corpus of the Collection [280 pieces], with 20 key works presented in a 3-D format for your understanding and enjoyment. "Fully-searchable" catalogue entries are available for each object, as well as glossaries. Additionally, there are news about exhibitions and information about the printed versions of The George Ortiz Collection catalogue, the standard reference on the Collection."

Georgetown University Library - The Fairchild Gallery -

     ~ !Printmakers A to Z - Selections from Georgetown's Collections

Gerrit Dou: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt - Exhibit from the National Gallery of Art

Getty Research Institute

    ~ Union List of Artists Names - Getty Vocabulary Program. "The focus of each vocabulary is art, architecture and material culture. The vocabularies provide terminology and other information about the objects, concepts, artists, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in these subjects...The ULAN is a structured vocabulary that contains around 220,000 names and other information about artists. The coverage of the ULAN is from Antiquity to the present, and the scope is global."

The Glory of Chinese Printing (Chinese or English) - " This item shows the history of Chinese printing form its origin to its later development including many glorious pictures... The Exhibition was presented in 1998 jointly by the Printing Museum of China and the Preparatory Committee of 'the Glory of Chinese Printing Exhibition'."

Graphic Witness: Visual Arts & Social Commentary - "...a site dedicated to social commentary through graphic imagery by artists working from the turn of the 20th Century to the present, with related bibliographic/biographic data."

Great Buildings Collection - "This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds."

The Iconography of Saint Sebastian - "In this page I have collected pictures of different works of art dedicated to Saint Sebastian. They are divided into three main sections: paintings ; sculptures ; drawings, miniatures, mosaics, stain-glass ... I have also collected some documents about the life of Saint Sebastian and his iconology." By Alessandro Giua, University of Cagliari, Italy

Illustrated Shakespeare: Electronic Facsimile - "...artists of all stripes, from performance artists to musicians to those working in more traditional visual media, have found important inspiration in the works of Shakespeare. Hence this online collection of selected electronic facsimiles seeks to share with a wider audience meetings of book art and Shakespearean text, and suggests the variety of responses of visual and book artists to the stimulus of Shakespeare's words." - University of Wisconsin, Madison Libraries

Images of England - "...is building a photographic record of England's 360,000 listed buildings to place on the internet by 2002. Welcome to the project's website which outlines how the photographs are being taken and when the first images will be available on-line." National Monuments Record, English Heritage

Islamic Architecture - "...every section is provided with references, images, and applicable information. The "iArchitecture" section provides; an Introduction to the Islamic Architecture and reviews of Mosques & palaces around the world. In the "iArts" section; you’ll find information on calligraphy styles, carpet designs, geometrical & floral patterns, metalwork, Pottery, textiles, and Woodwork."

Islamic Arts and Monuments of India - The Islamic Heritage of India. "Some of India's most beautiful heritage is derived from the Muslims who invaded India over the centuries. While Taj Mahal is but the most famous of them, the Islamic influence is well integrated into the modern Indian society. Here is a picture collection on Islamic arts and monuments of India."

James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) - Sections include: The Artists ; The Cast ; The Etchings ; The Mark ; The Words ; Redruth."

Jewish Museum of New York

     ~ Online Exhibitions

               ~ Making Connections in Art and Jewish Culture - "Explore the collection interactively. This online exhibition includes sixty works, from ancient artifacts to contemporary art and television clips, and traces their interconnections."

Latino Virtual Gallery - "Virtual Gallery will approach Latino/a contributions to America’s history, arts and culture from a Latino/a perspective. It will feature three exhibitions every year driven by Latino histories, arts and cultures...The goal of the gallery is to provide Latino interpretations to collections related to US history and culture. Virtual Gallery seeks to provoke dialogue. It invites visitors to share their histories and impressions." Joint project of the University of Texas at El Paso Library and the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives

Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua Picture Stories From China - Electronic edition of the exhibition at The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library, April 25, 1997 - June 13, 1997. Curated by Kuiyi Shen and Julia F. Andrews

London College of Fashion: College Archive - A Digital Record of the London College of Fashion Archive. "...is a collection of historical materials which chronicle the history of the College from its origins as two early needle trade schools up until the 1970's. This database contains images of black-and-white and sepia photographs from the Archive depicting a wide range of subjects taught at the schools over the years." Visual Arts Data Service

Lost Art Internet Database - "...a project of both, the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("Länder"). It registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism...The project is realized in co-operation of the Coordination Office and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg."

Masters of Photography - "This Website presents information about 45 "masters of photography," including such recognizable names as Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Alfred Steiglitz, and Ansel Adams. For each photographer, the site offers a representative selection of photographs arranged in chronological order, links to "articles" about the photographer (typically drawn from the _Encyclopedia of Photography_ entries, but sometimes including excerpts from the photographer's own writings), and Websites featuring the artist. More photographers, including Robert Mapplethorpe, will be posted soon. The site is created and maintained by Webgalleries.com, a Web design and imaging company. [DC]" From The Scout Report for Social Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/

Medici Archive Project: Guide to Art Historical Resources in the Medici Granducal Archives

[Monet] Boston Museum of Fine Arts

     ~ Monet in the 20th Century - "...is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the critical shifts in Monet's style, subject matter and working methods during the turbulent opening decades of the 20th century."

National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University

     ~ "Reporting the Arts: News Coverage of Arts and Culture in America"

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal - "...to provide a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)... There are currently 9908 objects from 92 participating museums listed in the Portal." - American Association of Museums

New York Public Library

     ~ The Picture Collection - "The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."

[Orozco] Reconstructing The Orozco Murals - "Among the great works of Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) are the powerful murals at Dartmouth College, Pomona College, and New School University. Beginning with a collection of photographs we have created a single distortion-free image mosaic of these murals. Combining these mosaics with a 3-D computer model, allows users an immersive, albeit virtual, experience of these beautiful works of art." By Hany Farid, Computer Science Dept., Dartmouth College.

The Ovid Project - Metamorphosing the Metamorphoses. "The University of Vermont's rare book department contains an extensive collection of illustrated works of Ovid. Included are several editions of engravings by the 17th century German artist, Johann Wilhelm Bauer, depicting 150 scenes from the Metamorphoses. Each scene has a brief description in both Latin and German. Some plates from a 1640 edition of the translation done by George Sandys are also available." By Hope Greenberg, Humanities Computing Specialist, University of Vermont

Performing Arts Data Service- PADS - "The PADS collects and promotes the use of digital resources to support research and teaching across the broad field of the performing arts: music, film, broadcast arts, theatre, dance. Its target audience is performing arts researchers, teachers and students in UK Higher Education." Based at the University of Glasgow, Scotland

Picture Library Search - From UK's National Portrait Gallery. "...shows the most influential characters in British history portrayed by the finest artists of their generation...runs to some 10,000 items in our Main Collection, with a further 1,000,000 in the archive."

Revealing Bodies - "Visual images have helped us observe, describe, and conceptualize the human body over the centuries. In conjunction with the Exploratorium's upcoming Revealing Bodies exhibition, this Web site looks at how imagery has changed the way we look at our bodies, drawing from many times and cultures."

Rhizome.org - The New Media Art Resource / Fresh Art+Text. "...to provide an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs and services support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways. Our core activities include commissions, email discussions and publications, this web site, and events."

The Rossetti Hypermedia Archive - "When completed, the project as a whole will provide students and scholars with access to all of DGR's original works, pictorial as well as textual. These original materials are gathered into the Archive along with a large corpus of contextual materials, most drawn from the period when DGR's work first appeared and established its reputation (approximately 1848-1920) ... Among those secondary materials is a set of important contemporary documents..." Edited by Jerome McGann

Russian Galleries of Modern Paintings (English or Russian).  Sections include: Exhibitions ; Art News ; Links.

The Silk Road Seattle Project - "Silk Road Seattle is a collaborative public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Sixteenth Century. Sponsored primarily by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, and directed by Professors Daniel C. Waugh, Joel Walker and Cynthea Bogel, the project will include: public lectures and seminars, a virtual art exhibit, photographic and textile exhibits, a general education course as well as professional development seminars and workshops for educators, and a web site containing additional materials." Sections include: Texts ; Cities and Architecture ; Traditional Culture ; Teaching/Learning Guides ; Virtual Art Exhibit ; Buddhist MSS Project ; Maps ; For Kids.
Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

Smithsonian Institution -

     ~ ¡del Corazón! - "Featuring the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection of art by Latino artists, ¡del Corazón! is an interactive, educational webzine for teachers and students."

     ~ Papers of African-American Artists - "The following ten collections and succeeding lists of papers and oral history interviews represent a sampling of primary sources at the Archives of American Art."
Smithsonian Institute

     ~ Papers of Latino & Latin American Artists - "This is an online version of Papers of Latino and Latin American Artists (2nd edition, 2000), containing nearly 150 entries of papers and oral histories of and about Latin and Latin American artists available at the Archives of American Art."

StudentReel.com - "...a place for students to show their artwork on video for free via the Internet...Send us your Reel and we'll stream it for Free on the Internet." Categories include 3D Computer ; Live Action ; Stop Motion ; Traditional ; Experimental.

They Drew Fire - Combat Artists of World War II. "This Web site is a companion to the PBS documentary They Drew Fire, airing nationally on May 15th, 2000. Here you will find an extensive art gallery displaying the pieces shown in the film, as well as other paintings by the combat artists. Many of these images have been hidden from the public eye since the time of the war. In addition, biographies of the artists themselves help fill out their stories as seen in the film. The site also provides a page of resources, including information about the history of World War II combat art programs, addresses of museums where the art is kept, and information about the filmmakers, for viewers interested in learning more."
PBS Online

To the Totem Forests: Emily Carr and Contemporaries Interpret Coastal Villages "...is the first exhibit in which the voice of First Nations people is used to describe drawings, paintings and prints which were created by Emily Carr, Walter Phillips, A.Y. Jackson, George Pepper, Langdon Kihn and F.M. Bell-Smith. This voice, through first-person testimony and anthropological records provides context for the artworks and corrects some misinterpretations unwittingly introduced by the artists...Further, the exhibit incorporates historical photographs, taken before and during the years these artists painted, which provide new insights into the depiction of Northwest Coast monumental sculpture during the first three decades of the 20th century."

Trajan's Column - "This is a site for exploring the Column of Trajan as a sculptural monument. The core of the site is a searchable database of over 500 images focusing on various aspects of the design and execution of the column's sculptural decoration. These images (slides and drawings) were generated by and for sculptor Peter Rockwell."
By The McMaster Trajan Project, 1999

Triumph of the Baroque : Architecture in Europe 1600-1750 - National Gallery of Art online tour

Urban Planning 1794-1918: An International Anthology. Selected and Edited by John W. Reps

Varo Registry of Women Artists - "...is an electronic registry of artwork by contemporary international women artists.  The Varo Registry is designed to provide all women artists an opportunity to become part of today's electronic community."
Named in memory of Remedios Varo (1908-1963)

Viewing Japanese Prints - "A Website devoted to the appreciation of  three centuries of Japanese printmaking...This website presents illustrated discussions about selected artists and their prints, as well as explorations into various themes in Japanese printmaking."
Sections includes: Early Ukiyo-E ; Golden Age ; Late Ukiyo-E ; Shin Hanga ;Sosaku Hanga ; Contemporary.

Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)  - "The Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) is part of the [U.K.] Arts & Humanities Data Service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Arts and Humanities Research Board ... We have two main goals as our mission:  To build a searchable on-line archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community especially higher education for teaching, learning and research ... To establish and promote good practice in the creation, management and preservation of digital resources through an advisory, training and publications programme."
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