FAH275 Landscape and Art: Selected Websites

dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America.

Our vast holdings—more than 20 million letters, diaries and scrapbooks of artists, dealers, and collectors; manuscripts of critics and scholars; business and financial records of museums, galleries, schools, and associations; photographs of art world figures and events; sketches and sketchbooks; rare printed material; film, audio and video recordings; and the largest collection of oral histories anywhere on the subject of art—are a vital resource to anyone interested in American culture over the past 200 years.

Search art keywords to retrieve a quick historical overview of a concept.

Provides quick links to the top web resources on Baroque art in and outside of Italy. Contains links for well and lesser known artists as well as artistic movements.

A different way to search for artists - search for a movement and Artcyclopedia will tell you which artists were part of that movement.

The Getty Research Institute is spearheading this international collaboration with libraries that are digitizing art history books, thereby making their resources accessible to a larger audience.

The Timeline of Art History presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. It comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.

A great resource on the history of pigments.

The National Gallery houses the national collection of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

CODART is the international network of curators of Dutch and Flemish art. The resources & links section is a portal to institutions and digital resources that are useful in art-historical research.

Catalogues raisonnés — scholarly compilations of an artist's body of work — are critical tools for researching the provenance and attribution of artwork. Below are two new electronic resources — a database of published catalogues raisonnés and one of catalogues in preparation. They can be searched separately or together and will be updated regularly. See the Users' Guide for details.