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Art

Oxford Art Online - Premium resource

Comprehensive online resource covering all aspects of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day. Includes the full text of Grove Art Online, The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Access in your library or from home using your library card.

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Artcyclopedia

Artcyclopedia, "the guide to great art on the Internet", is a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, with images and links to other online resources. Artcyclopedia offers more than 60,000 links to an estimated 150,000 works by 8,000+ renowned artists, and links only to sites where an artist's work can be viewed online.

Artefact

Includes a Galleries section, detailing over 500 exhibitions in commercial and public art galleries.

Art Guide

Comprehensive easily searchable guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland, with a database including more than 1,900 artists, more than 650 museums, and an extensive exhibitions listing.

Art History Resources on the Web

Massive collection of links to world art and art history resources available on the web, organised chronologically, from pre-historic art to art from the twenty-first century.

Google Image Search

Search Google for images.

National Portrait Gallery

The world's largest collection of portraits and likenesses, in London, contains more than 10,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings and miniatures in its primary collection, plus a further 80,000 archived studies.

Tate Gallery

Explore an online database of 65,000 works, with images and an illustrated glossary. Details of exhibitions are available for the Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Tate Galleries in Liverpool and St Ives.

Web Gallery of Art

Searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100 to 1850), including nearly 14,000 images, reviews of each piece, biographies of artists, tours focussing on various places and times, and linking to major galleries and other repositories in Europe and the USA.

World Wide Arts Resources

Comprehensive art database, "the largest site for contemporary art, art news, art history, contemporary artist and gallery portfolios", including a contemporary art section of over 100,000 works, and an in-depth art history section of over 200,000 works by over 22,000 artists. As well as descriptions about art and biographies of artists, the site provides information about museums, galleries and art education.