Art: Online Resources

Artcyclopedia is a fine arts search engine, providing links to online information about and images of notable fine art.

An online meeting point of professionals, students, and lovers of art.

An extensive list of subjects and resources for art and its history throughout the world.

A daily digest of arts, culture & ideas.

This site is the web presence for all arms of the J. Paul Getty Trust – museum, research institute, conservation institute, leadership institute and grant programs.

An open, online repository of more than 250 Getty publications from our 45-year publishing history, available as high-quality scans to read online, or to download in their entirety, for free.

The Indiana Arts Commission website provides current information on the arts in Indiana, including information on grants and other arts opportunities.

The mission of the Indianapolis Art Center is to engage, enlighten and enhance our communities through art education, participation and observation.

Masters of Traditional Arts is an ongoing interdisciplinary project produced by Documentary Arts. It focuses on the recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship, awarded annually by the National Endowment for the Arts since 1982.

Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC)—provides access to images of art in its collection that the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions. Works that are covered by the new policy are identified with the acronym OASC.

MoMA’s evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art by over 10,000 artists. 65,000 works are available online.

Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others. From Hyperallergic:

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 12,100 reproductions.

Collection of databases from the Smithsonian. Contains 600,000 records of the Inventory of American Painting & Sculpture, Photograph Archives and Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index. Includes collections of personal papers relating to American artists; records of galleries, museums, and art organizations; videos and interviews from the Archives’ oral history project.

Collection of facsimiles, metadata, and criticism from University of Virginia.

Database of medieval and renaissance material containing more than 8,000 manuscripts and for 40,000 images.

Primary resource index containing approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries. Covers both free and commercial subscription sites.

Provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California

Published around 1550, Vasari wrote some of the first biographies of many famous Italian artists based on personal interactions with many of them.

This is the 1913 English translation by E. L. Seeley.