Useful Websites
Art
Artcyclopedia
Covers over 125,000 great works of art with statistics and thumbnail pictures of some of the artist's best works. Reproductions are excellent, as are the brief biographical sketches.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
Glass Encyclopedia
A comprehensive resource on glass styles, providing definitions, information, pictures, and references. This list of glass styles is regularly increased and updated.
http://www.glassencyclopedia.com/
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The nation's first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience.
http://www.americanart.si.edu
Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 27.000 reproductions. Features picture commentaries and artist biographies. Guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcards and other services are provided.
http://www.wga.hu/index.html
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