Creative Arts

Art and Graphic Design Resource Center Tips, tutorials, freeware and plugins. Links to freelancing opportunities.

Art History Resources on the Web A meta site of hundreds of links to art history resources categorized by time period and country.

Artcyclopedia: the Fine Art Search Engine

ArtLex--On-line Art Dictionary More than 2,400 alphabetically arranged entries. Some 50 popular terms have their own links from the front-page frame.

Artslynx Visual Art Resources A collection of links ranging from organizations to publications in the visual arts area. Includes photography links.

AXIS Provides information about contemporary British artists and makers living/working in Britain. The Axis database currently features artists and makers with artwork images.

Ceramic Resources - Artists Online

CGFA-A Virtual Art Museum Houses more than 5000 scans, dating from the medieval age to the early 20th century.

Communication Arts Network Includes link to Interactive Communication Arts Design Annual.

Complete Guide to Digital Cameras and Photography Offers a number of tutorials and informational essays on all aspects of digital photography, camera operation, and editing digital photos. Visitors can learn about how to choose a digital camera, how to display and share digital photos, and how to best use one's digital camera for a variety of purposes.

Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Images, documents, digitized texts.

Metropolitan Museum of Art In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 3,500 objects-fifty highlights from each of the Museum's curatorial departments as well as the entire department of European Paintings-can be searched by artist, period, style, or keyword. You may also explore other works from the Met's collection by taking the director's tour; viewing some of the Museum's recent acquisitions; or by visiting the Timeline of Art History, the Period Rooms: Virtual Reality Tour, or the Provenance Research Project.

National Gallery of Art (NGA) This site includes both extensive virtual tours (16) and good background essays. Search the collection by subject, artist name, title key words, school, style, creation date, medium, and/or short list of popular subjects, name of a previous owner of a work of art, or the accession number of the object.

National Museum of Women in the Arts Brings recognition to the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities by exhibiting, preserving, acquiring, and researching art by women and by educating the public concerning their accomplishments.

National Portrait Gallery Web site for the London gallery established in 1856 to collect likenesses of famous British men and women. Includes an online database of 11,000 works searchable by sitter, artist, title, time period, or profession.

NYPL Digital Library Provides access to over 415,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress

Photographic Libraries

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials One of the most comprehensive web developer tutorial sites on the Internet. Nearly everything a developer needs to know about building web sites. In-depth tutorials cover all the major standards established by the W3C as well as a variety of other web technologies. Includes: HTML, XML, Browser Scripting, Server Scripting, .Net, Multimedia and web buildings, PHP, Flash.

Web Gallery of Art Over 9,200 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant artists are given. The search engine allows you to find pictures in the collection using various search criteria. A number of guided tours make it easier to visit the Gallery and to understand the artistic and historical relationship between different artworks and artists included in the collection.

Web Museum, Paris Thousands of images as well as informative essays concerning styles, genres, and mediums. Essays are laced with hyperlinks to definitions of terms or related artists.