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Art History Resources on the Web by Chris Witcombe.
This is one of the most comprehensive art history sites on the Internet. It covers all time periods and art forms.

Artcyclopedia
"The Fine Art Search Engine." A comprehensive database of more than 6,500 different artists represented by 19,000 links directly to an estimated 75,000 works at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. Search by artist, artwork or museum, or browse artists by movement, medium, subject, nationality or name.

ArtLex Dictionary of Visual Art by Michael Delahunt, MFA
This site is a dictionary of visual art terminology for artists, art students, and art educators.  Defines terms from art production, art criticism, art history, aesthetics, and art education.

Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) by Smithsonian Institution.
The online catalog of resources held by the Institution's libraries, archives, and other specialized research centers. Including Art Inventories, which provides information on over 335,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide; a large photographic archive that documents the work of approximately 10,000 American artists in 127,000 black-and-white images; manuscripts and specialized bibliographies.


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