• ArtCyclopedia (newspaper aggregator)
• The Art Newspaper (news by topic: complete page is visible only in IE)
• Exhibitions Worldwide (Burlington Magazine: editorials)
  • London Art News (Ian Cox: anti-Tate*)
  • Guardian (with reviews, gallery
    Jonathan Jones: blog)
  • Telegraph, Independent (with reviews)
  • Daily Mail, Time Out (London)
  • Arts Desk, Culture 24 (beyond London)

• Reviews: Telegraph
• (Dorment, Sooke, Graham-Dixon)
• Evening Standard (Brian Sewell: unique)
• Waldemar Januszczak (Archive)
• The Arts Desk (covers exhibitions missed by others)
• London Review of Books ( limited access)
• Financial Times , Laura Cumming (Observer)
• The Jackdaw (articles & reviews, anti-Tate*: David Lee)
• Culture Wars (occasional)
  • International
  • News Reports: Art Daily (), ArtInfo , NY Times
  • Studio International (modern: mostly US & UK)
  • Blogs: Arts Journal (CultureGrrl, Lee Rosenbaum)
  • John Haber (New York), Philip Kennicott (Washington)
    • Journal des Arts $ (selected articles)
    • Il Giornale dell' Arte (art & archaeology)
    • Firenze 2013 (Un anno ad arte: upcoming events)
      (Summary from Three Pipe Problem)

• $ Art Market $
• Sotheby's (upcoming, Blogs, Videos, YouTube)
• Christie's (upcoming, YouTube), Bonhams (Press Releases)
• Financial Times, Antiques Trade Gazette
• The Art Fund (news on UK public art purchases & exhibitions)
• Tom Flynn (London), Antiques Roadshow (BBC , 1979-)
• Master Paintings Week (London 28 June - 5 July, galleries in Mayfair & St James's)
• Art Market Monitor (NY, Marion Maneker: aggregator & comment)
• Robert Simon (NY: old masters)
• African Art on the Internet (Links from Stanford)
• For art theft and looting, see Archaeology

Online Galleries

• Wide-Scope Collections
• Web Gallery of Art (1000-1850 AD, 28,000+ good-quality images: Hungary.
  For images from WGA organised by gallery, see the Museums page)
• TerminArtors (very large communal archive with good search tools, postcard-sized images)
• Museum Syndicate (900+ good-quality images, Renaissance to modern)
• Paleta (140 mostly modern artists: good-quality images)
• About Art History (image galleries from major exhibitions 2006-2011)

  • Individual Artists
  • Blake Archive
  • Cranach Digital Archive (research project: Cologne, Dusseldorf)
  • Escher (works, grouped by period)
  • Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Leighton Drawings Project (Leighton House Collection)
  • Universal Leonardo (thematic biography, with images: Martin Kemp & Marina Wallace)
  • Leonardo & the Treatise on Painting (research project: IATH, Virginia)
  • Picasso (biography, works by year)
  • Poussin Connoisseurship Project (analysing paintings in Britain by his followers: David Packwood)
  • Open Raphael Online (being prepared by Hasan Niyazi of Three Pipe Problem)
  • Raphael Research Project (focussing on the NG's ten paintings, with documentation)
  • Rembrandt (paintings, self-portraits, drawings, etchings: selections)
  • The Rembrandt Database (research project: paintings, documentation: The Hague)
  • Hubrecht & Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (HD images and documentation)
  • Van Gogh (comprehensive collection)
  • Essential Vermeer (Jonathan Janson)
  • Not included in this listing: a series subtitled The Complete Works, distinctively-formatted
    websites with postcard-sized images, covering Arcimboldo, Bosch, Caravaggio, Durer, Goya,
    Hokusai, Lawrence, Raphael, Rembrandt, Sargent, Turner, Velazquez and others.
    • Artwork Finders
    • ArtCyclopedia (artist index: linked to museums)
    • Google Images (refine search: by size, face, drawings, colour)

• Digital & Web Art
• Classic Interactive Animations (Patrick Smith): Vector Park, Feed The Head
• Eyel Gever (3D Sculptures & Animations of Catastrophes)
• Optical Illusions: Eluzions, Exploratorium
• Google Doodle Museum

Art in Britain

• Your Paintings (BBC/PCF: medium-resolution images of all the 210,000
  publicly-owned oil paintings in British galleries, Artists,
  • PCF, with public content-tagging)
• Artists active in Britain (a selected chronological listing)
• NIRP (National Inventory Research Project, V & A: European art in UK)
• National Portrait Gallery (Tudor to modern)
  Directories (1610-1950: framers, restorers, suppliers)
• Understanding British Portraits (news, teaching guides, bibliographies)
• National Archives (biographical data on artists, works: some images)
• National Fine Art Collection (images of 200 works from art schools)
• Art World in Britain 1660-1735 (York: bibliographic records, dictionaries of people & places)
• Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource (Birmingham Museums)
• Pre Raphaelite Art (blog: Phillip Brown), PreRaphaelite Sisterhood (Stephanie Pina)
• Royal Academicians (past and present)
• The Victorian Web (Artists, Designers & Furniture Makers)
• Visual Arts Data Service (25 specialist image collections)
• Yorkshire's Favourite Paintings (from the county's galleries: interactive)
• Art Cornwall (St Ives School)
  • Society of London Art Dealers (with images)
  • Leicester Galleries (19th and 20th C art, with image archive)
  • Philip Mould (London: 16th-20th C British portraiture)
    • Contemporary: Turner Prize
    • White Cube ('Young British Artists')
      • Art in Historic Homes and Castles
      • National Trust Art Collections (742,000 medium-quality images)
      • Treasure Hunt (National Trust art blog)
      • Royal Collection (Renaissance, Old Masters)

British Sculpture

• Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (image archive: King's College London)
• Church Monument Society (Britain by county, in progress,
  plus some French regions. With glossaries, links, images)
• Neoclassical British Sculpture (V&A)
• Victorian Sculpture and Sculptors
• Mapping British Sculpture 1851-1951 (research project: Glasgow)
• Modern British Sculpture (RBS, 1900: PDF)
• Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Eric Gill, Charles Jagger
• Modern British Sculptors (BBC: Butler, Caro, Deacon, Epstein,
  Frink, Gill, Gormley, Hepworth, Long, Moore, Paolozzi, Whiteread, Wilding)
• Henry Moore Foundation (BBC: more Moore )
• Barbara Hepworth (extensive information)
  • Contemporary: Members of RBS, Royal Academicians
  • Cass Sculpture Foundation (sculptors A-Z)
  • Lisson Gallery (mostly abstract, incl. Cragg, Deacon, Kapoor, Wei Wei)
  • Craft, representational: James Butler, Tony Cragg, Maggi Hambling
  • Martin Jennings, Alexander Stoddart, Emily Young
  • War: Philip Jackson, Kai Liao, Michael Sandle, Tim Shaw
  • Stone Sculpture Miner (tools, stone, supplies: Sam Bell)
  • The Joy of Shards (Mosaic Art in UK and Europe)

• Sculpture in the Landscape
• Hill Figures (comprehensive coverage, old & new, images & histories: Mark Hows)
• Cass Sculpture Foundation (Chichester: rotating exhibitions of 70 contemporary works)
• Jupiter Artland (sculpture and modern land art: Kirknewton, Edinburgh)
• New Art Centre (Roche Court, Salisbury: works by the classic moderns, for sale)
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park (rotating exhibitions of contemporary works)
• Antony Gormley ( various urban & rural locations)

  • Sculpture in the City
  • Public Monuments and Sculpture (PMSA:
    also Sculpture Trails, Other Audits: check page foot)
  • Public Art in Westminster, Greyworld (installations)
  • Public Art Online (think tank )
  • War Memorials Online (launched November 2012)
  • Future City (consultancy: artists), Cambridge

Art History, Discussing Artworks

• News
• Art History News (Bendor Grosvenor, London:
  key news & comment on exhibitions, research, discoveries)
• Storie Dell' Arte (Serena D'Italia, Sergio Momesso,
  and others, Posts by Date, Links)
• Italia Nostra (supporting cultural heritage: news)
• Miniatura Italiana (the ancient book: news, conferences, links: Anna Melograni)
• The Art Tribune (Didier Rykner: news, reviews,
  criticism of museum projects, notably the Louvre satellites)
• ApAhAu (academic art history, news & events)
• Art Unwashed (Laura Gilbert: New York news)
• Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center
  (NY, pages not dated: with blog, essays, American Arts Quarterly)
• Enfilade (18th Century art: news, conferences)
• Italian Art Society (upcoming conferences, grants)
• Upcoming Renaissance Events: Florence, elsewhere
• CODART (Dutch & Flemish Art: news, museum links, eZine)
• Libros sobre Arte Medieval (publications: Joan Valero Molina, in Spanish)
• British Art Research (York: events listing)
• Society for Renaissance Studies (news of events, prizes, theses)

Writing about Artworks Essential Reading: Three Pipe Problem (Hasan Niyazi, Melbourne: essays on interpretation & style, especially Raphael: archive) Art History Today (David Packwood, Warwick: publications, attributions, news, especially Poussin) History of Painting in Florence (course) Art of the Vatican Collections (course, in progress) Alberti's Window (Monica Bowen: thoughtful & wide-ranging posts) Grumpy Art Historian (Michael Savage: forthright observations on galleries, hangs, attributions; anti-Tate*) My Daily Art Display (Jonathan, Conwy: detailed discussion on a painting every few days) L'historien errant (Christian Opitz: late mediaeval art) Sedef's Corner (Sedef Piker: Impressionism, Islamic art, women artists, jewellery) I've Got Some Art Stuck in My Eye (Karen Barrett-Wilt: images & discussions of selected artworks) This Write Life (Mary Jo Gibson: an interesting variety of topics)

• Worth Checking
• Picture This (Bob Duggan, Philadelphia: visual arts & society)
• Experiments in Art History (Nancy Ross, Dixie State U: teaching with digital tools)
• Emanata (Ben Harvey, Mississippi State: teaching, modern art)
• Every Painter Paints Himself (Simon Abrahams: interpreting paintings in terms of hidden meaning)
• Famous Paintings Reviewed (Susan Benford: well-known works, with historical information & some analysis)
• Vivante Drawings (occasional posts on drawings, archived by category, & links to collections: Lucy Vivante)
• Medieval Illumination (images: Shelley Williams)
• The Best Artists (100 Swallows: informal discussions of famous artists & works)
• ArtSmart Roundtable (themed monthly posts from 7 bloggers): Christina, Erin, Jeff, Jenna, Kelly, Lesley, Leslie
• Silver and Exact (Àlvaro, Buenos Aires: a painting a week, with useful observations)
• Great Works (a painting a week: Michael Glover, The Independent)
• Gandalf's Gallery (a painting a day, with brief descriptions)
• Art History Ramblings (Catherine Holt: images reblogged from other sites)
  • Reference: Renaissance for Real (Glennis McGregor: comparing representational
    techniques of early Renaissance art & modern video games: Index)
  • Art Revealed (Interactive images : Gates of Paradise, Sistine Chapel,
    Raphael Rooms, Stories in Art : Becky Daroff diMattia)
    • Occasional:
    • Be It Art (Jennifer Mally: discussions on works, genre, practical techniques)
    • Caravaggista (studying art history, especially Caravaggio: Amy Martin)
    • Baroque Potion (David Byron: last post 14/09/12: interesting archive)
    • Robin Simon's British Art Blog (mostly book news & reviews)
    • This and That (Martin Kemp: check for any posts on Leonardo)
  • For more visual arts blogs, see Museums, Archaeology and Architecture

Talking about Artworks , smART history (over 500 of 4-20min. dialogues by Steven Zucker & Beth Harris, YouTube Channel; now also adding essays with still images, accessible via the historical index) Canal Educatif à la Demande (10-15min. videos, ten on specific works, 14 on art history: Rémy Diaz) Otis College Art History Course (27 of 5-min videos: Jeanne Willette) V&A Video Channel (a great variety, across all genres, grouped by People, Things, Events; plus over 680 miscellaneous videos on vimeo) A Closer Look (13 works in the Louvre, described in superb detail) British Museum (Objects, Discussions & Lectures, A History of the World, 100 of 15min. podcasts) National Gallery London (monthly podcasts, with transcripts & images, Channel: short clips) Metropolitan (videos & audios: for the latter, use the thumbnail to find the image, before accessing audio) Video Playlists (YouTube), 82nd and Fifth (100 of 2min. videos on individual artworks: YouTube)

• Journals: JStor (Journals Archive )
• Burlington Magazine Online Index (1903-2002)
• Gombrich Archive (papers , reviews)
• Getty Research Portal (pre-1923 open-access texts: launched 31/5/12)
• Journal of Art Historiography (open-access eJournal: Birmingham, started June 2012)
• Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide (articles, reviews)
• Observatoire Critique (news of digital publications, with links)
• Histara (book reviews: Sorbonne)
• artHistoricum (digital publications in Germany: texts, image archives)

Arguing about Artworks: Technique, Attribution, & Restoration ArtWatch UK (Michael Daley, London: analyses of invasive restorations, archive from 12/12/10) Artwatch International (Einav Zamir, founded by James Beck: with archive by month, 1996-2007, 2012-) ARIPA (L'Association pour le Respect de l'Intégrité du Patrimoine Artistique) Fake or Fortune? (BBC , seasonal programmes starting 2011: attributions) Hockney-Falco Hypothesis (Renaissance paintings: done with mirrors? Other Views, Stork) New Yorker (article 12/7/10 on La Bella Principessa, Martin Kemp, Peter Paul Biro, & fingerprints) Salvator Mundi (by Leonardo? for, against), iconography & provenance (Hasan Niyazi) Leonardo's Geology (the authenticity of the London Virgin of the Rocks: Ann Pizzorusso) Restoration of the Sistine Chapel Frescoes (Wikipedia) Save Rembrandt (Nigel Konstam, Sienna: campaigning against modern re-attributions) Rubens, Samson and Delilah (NG: Euphrosyne Doxiades and others; Salon Article 2005)

Dictionaries & Databases (of Images and Texts)

• Historical Overview
• Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (the Met,
  300 Timelines with Images, Maps, 930 Essays)
• Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment
  (pdf lecture presentations with images: Oklahoma )
  • Dictionaries & Encylopaedias: National Gallery, ArtLex
  • Art Encyclopedia (Cork, Ireland: very good introduction, sitemap)
  • Oxford Art Online ( including Groves Dictionary)
  • Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Archaeology (Mollett, 1883: pdf)
  • Dictionary of Art Historians (Duke)
  • Drawing Materials & Techniques (glossary, illustrated with historical examples: Michael Miller)
  • Getty Vocabularies (art terms, artists' names & dates, bibliographies)
  • Pastels & Pastellists (dictionary & prosopography: Neil Jeffares)
  • Modern Art Directory (DE, schools & artists, online auctions)
  • Artnet.com (NY, modern artists' directory: online auctions)
  • Smith, Dictionary of Greek & Roman Biography & Mythology (1870, Facsimile)
    • Antiquities (1890, Index, Greek), Geography (1854: Perseus)
  • Daremberg-Saglio, Dictionnaire des Antiquités Grecques et Romaines (1877-1919)

• Italian Art
• Italian & Other Art Resources (Warburg Institute)
• Beni Ecclesiastici (Italian Church Art: large database, in progress)
• THAIS: Sculpture & Architecture in Italy (images & data for selected artists & works: Bruno Balestrini, Milan)
• Italian Renaissance Artists (illustrated introductions for over 30 artists: Vincent Finnan)
• haltadefinizione (HD images of 18 Italian paintings, watermarked)
• Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (19th & 20th C photos & engravings)
• Giorgio Vasari Project (translations, plus the Italian texts in PDF)
• Vasari Scrittore (searching the Italian texts, and Vite lemma search)
  • Themed Archives (for individual artists see Online Galleries above)
  • Iconography of Art History (blog, K Bender: descriptions of image archives,
    with links, specialising in images of Aphrodite)
  • Art & Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe (Max Planck Berlin)
  • The Boar in Art History (Waterloo: based on Pietro Tacca's Il Porcellino)
  • Digital Sculpture Project (3-D modelling: Virginia)
    (OA Texts, including The Art of Stoneworking, guide for restorers: Peter Rockwell, 1993)
  • Grande Art (online library of classic writings on art, last posted 2009)
  • Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers (2006 ebook, ed. Esther Singleton)
  • Modern Masters (introductory material on Dali, Matisse, Picasso, Warhol: BBC )
  • Russian Painting (Alexander Boguslawski, Rollins College)
  • 100 Greek Sculptors (Andrew Stewart, 1997: revision of Part III, Greek Sculpture, Yale 1990; Copy)
  • Last Statues of Antiquity (284-650 AD, small images & 3-level text: top, LSA, discussion. Oxford)
  • The Art of Making in Antiquity: Stone Carving and Carvers in the Roman World (KCL)
  • Finding Nero: shining a new light on Romano-British sculpture (Bournemouth: Miles Russell & Harry Manley)
  • Art Topics (seven PDFs by Peter Arguimbau: including paint driers, panels, cleaning, Luminism)

    • Wide-Scope Image Archives
    • Arachne (ancient sculpture image archive at Cologne)
    • ARTstor (images, some HD, from 150 collections) ,
    • J-E Berger Foundation (World Art Treasures: images & thematic essays)
    • Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (2 million images of art & architecture)
    • Bridgeman Art Library (index to 8,000 museum collections:
      small images with data, plus larger downloads $: news)
    • British Museum Images (postcard-size)
      • Ashurbanipal Lion Hunt
      • Michelangelo (24 Drawings)
      • Tomb of Nebamun
      • Parthenon Sculptures
    • Courtauld (40,000 art & architecture images)
    • Google Art Project (see also the Museums page)
    • Warburg Photographic Collection (in progress)
    • Yale Digital Content (bibliographic search, with some online images)

Museum Research

• Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF: for imaging, see below)
• British Museum (Research Publications Series , some Open Access, Technical Research Bulletin )
• Courtauld, National Gallery (Technical Bulletin with images, Raphael Project)
• National Portrait Gallery, Tate (Tate Papers )
• V&A: Archive (introductions to specialist collections)
  Annual Research Journal , Reports (records, & Bulletin, reviews)
• Prado (online reports & images of restorations)
• Metropolitan (Catalogues: 1963-2010, some papers , online or large PDF)
• Charisma (information & links for EU archives & research facilities)

  • Conservation & HD Imaging: AIC, CAMEO (Online Encyclopaedia)
  • Conservators Converse (blog of the AIC, with links to others)
  • Science, Art, Technology (Chicago guide, with Art Conservation Science)
  • Getty (PDFs, UCLA/Getty conservation blog), Metropolitan, MOMA, Smithsonian
  • Opificio delle Pietre Dure (sculpture, Firenze: links)
  • ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation & Restoration of Cultural Property)
  • L'Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro (click Restauri)
  • Optical Diagnostics for Conservation (CNR Firenze)
  • SMAART (Scientific Methodologies applied to Archaeology and Art, Perugia)
  • Art-Test (Firenze: non-invasive art diagnostics, with images)
  • Toscana Restauro Arte (Foiano della Chiana: with images & 5 download articles)
  • Centro Conservazione e Restauro 'La Venaria Reale' (Turino: studio & school)
  • Book Conservation: Vatican Secret Archives (Roma), ICPAL
    (Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario)
  • News in Conservation (bimonthly e-journal of the
    International Institute for Conservation: PDF)
  • Ashmolean, British Museum (Links), Courtauld
  • National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate
  • V&A (Conservation Journal), Hamilton Kerr
  • Bartlett Centre for Sustainable Heritage (UCL)
  • Institute of Conservation (news, advice), Science Museum
  • Conservation Studio (London: ceramics, glass, icons)
  • C2RMF Imaging (22 vHD Images from Parisian museums)
  • French Centres for Conservation Research (links)
  • Lumiere Technology (Pascal Cotte, Paris: vHD multispectral imaging, 13 rather than 3-channel R-G-B. Half-way
    down the page are 5 samples, of Leonardo(?), Bella Principessa, & other paintings: click 'full-screen', hover & zoom with '+' button.)
  • (See also Wikipedia article on Conservation-restoration)

Art History Institutes, Art Schools, Drawing Tutorials

• Departments: Cambridge, Courtauld, Glasgow
• Open University, Oxford, St Andrews, UCL, Warwick, York
• Florence: Dipartimento di Storia delle Arti, Villa I Tatti
• Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Dutch University Institute for Art History
• Rome: Dipartimento di Storia dell' Arte, Bibliotheca Hertziana, British School at Rome
• Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, NYU, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Tyler, USC
• ARIAH (research institutes), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale)
• Samuel H Kress Foundation (funding US art history projects)

• Information for Students
• Art History Rules! (Asa Mittman, Chico State)
• Writing About Art (introductory guide, 2009: Marjorie Munsterberg)
  • Art Schools: University of the Arts (London: 6 colleges)
  • Glasgow, Goldsmiths, Leeds, Royal Academy, RCA, Ruskin (Oxford), Slade (UCL)
  • Schools Worldwide (Saatchi Gallery: country search)
  • European Art Schools (with links: Wikipedia)
  • École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris)
  • Accademie delle Belle Arti: Firenze, Bologna, Milan, Rome
  • Accademia Tedesca Roma, Académie de France à Rome
  • American Academy in Rome, British Institute of Florence
  • Chicago, Kansas City, Pratt, Yale
    • Drawing
    • Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing (images & notes from his teaching collection)
    • Ruskin's Drawing Method (eight classes )
    • Figure Drawing (blog by Tom Richardson, scenic artist: with republished classic eManuals $)
    • Drawing Lessons (by subject: ArtGraphica)
    • Darren Rousar (tips on improving technique)
      • Basic Technique: Dueys Drawings (Brian Duey)
      • How to Draw People (laying-out of shapes: Pam Neely)
      • Figure Drawing (techniques: Harry Hamernik, Vimeo )
      • Introductory articles from About.com: Drawing, Painting