Web Gallery of Art
Access: Publicly available resource
Description: The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the 12th-18th centuries. The Fine Arts Museums and the Churches sections introduce the major museums and some of the great churches owning the original artworks the reproductions of which are presented in the Gallery. A Glossary section contains five independent glossaries focusing respectively on art terms and historic events, art centres of the Italian Renaissance, famous families of the Italian Renaissance, illustrious people related to the Renaissance, and popes in the 12th-18th centuries.
Other galeries include:
- Agence photographique de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux
- Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
- Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Online Collections Database
- Cornell University Image Collections
- French government's Ministry of Culture and Communication Toutes les bases
- Harvard University Visual Information Access
- Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation : World Art Treasures
- Joconde Database: Catalog of the Museum Collections of France
- London Tate Gallery
- Louvre Atlas Database
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
- National Gallery (UK)
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- National Library of France Gallica
- Netherlands Institute for Art History
- Network of Art Research Computer Image Systems in Europe Database (Base Narcisse)
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- Olga's Gallery
- Russia State Hermitage Museum
- Thinker ImageBase, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Victoria and Albert Museum (UK)
Coverage: Various Dates
Subject(s):
Art & Architecture
Images and Photographs
Publicly Available Resources
Related Databases
Art Full Text
Art Index Retrospective
Artfact
ARTstor (Note: network restrictions at LC limit access to some images)
Oxford Art Online
Related Links
Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine
TASI Digital Image Archives
VADS
Other Related Links:
Museumland Portal to Worldwide Museums and Cultural Heritage
World Wide Arts Resources
