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VIRTUAL REFERENCE LIBRARY - ART AND ARCHITECTURE INTERNET LINKS 

 

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Links to a wide range of art and architectural information including the museums and galleries.

Architecture

  • Architecture Through the Ages - In this comprehensive guide, you will learn about architecture from the great Mayas to the building of cathedrals.
  • Architecture Virtual Library
  • ArtSource - online Art and Architecture resources, including libraries, artist's projects, events, image collections, new media, vendor information, programs, art journals, electronic exhibitions, museum information, and art organisations.
  • Asian Historical Architecture - Includes "thousands of online photos of historical architecture in Asia from China, Japan, North & South Korea, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, India, Pakistan, & Afghanistan."
  • Great Buildings Collection - documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, famous designers and structures of all kinds.

Art

  • ArtServe - Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin
  • Artchive - a selection of art history writings; includes sections on theory and criticism.
  • Artcyclopedia - the Fine Art search engine
  • ArtSource - online Art and Architecture resources, including libraries, artist's projects, events, image collections, new media, vendor information, programs, art journals, electronic exhibitions, museum information, and art organisations.
  • Dictionary of Australian Artists Online -  You can search 6901 biographies by over 400 biographers, and watch for 464 new biographies currently in progress. You can discover themes and patterns from 45 years of art scholarship. You can create new biographies, comment or revise those previous, and write alternative interpretations on artists already covered.
  • Impressionists - this site combines information relating to the lives and works of Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Bazille, Cassatt, Manet, Sisley and others.
  • Islamic Art - this site provides information and images of Islamic architecture, calligraphy, coins, and the woven arts.
  • Pictures Catalogue : National Library of Australia's pictorial collection - contains over 20,000 historical and contemporary images relating to Australia and its place in the world, including paintings, drawings, rare prints, objects and photographs.
  • Web Gallery of Art - a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 11,600 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available.
  • World Wide Arts Resources - a gateway to artists, museums, galleries, art history, arts education, antiques, dance, theater, classified ads, resume postings, art chats, discussion forums and more.

Galleries

Museums

 
 

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