Classroom Internet Library

General Art History Resources

Timeline of Art History
Explore the world of art history at this site from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. You can navigate the site using a clickable world map and timeline and view examples of art with detailed descriptions.
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Art Movements Directory
This site has brief descriptions of major art movements and periods as well as biographies and images of key artists in each movement.
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Art Images for College Teaching
You will find hundred of images of art from ancient art and architecture to 20th century art at this site designed to enhance art history courses at the college level. You will also find correlations to the major undergraduate art history survey textbooks.
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Carol Gerten-Jackson's Fine Arts Page
This extensive site contains selections of paintings and drawings by European and American artists listed alphabetically, by nationality, and by period. You will also find biographies of selected artists.
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Web Gallery of Art
This virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods, currently contains over 11,600 reproductions along with commentaries on the art and biographies of the artists.
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World Art Treasures
This site contains some of the over 100,000 fine art slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation.of the art of Egypt, China, Japan, India, and Europe. You also find essays and can even transform some artworks into puzzles that you can solve online.
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Art History Resources
Search for art history resources at this indexed directory of links from Dr. Christopher . Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College.
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Art History Network
Looking for an artist, want to search for art by period? This site has an indexed collection of links to art resources organized by artist, civilization, and era.
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