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• - An art archive with thousands of images that are accessed through an alphabetical list of artist's names and art styles. Covers every style of art from ancient and African to impressionist and modern.
  
• - Art historians and other volunteer experts answer all your detailed one-on-one questions.
  
• - Broad gallery that includes biographies and images for hundreds of well-known American, French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Japanese artists.
  
• - Discussing the theory of hypertext and its medieval application in Byzantine manuscripts, using examples from the Theodore Psalter, a manuscript created in 1066.
  
• - This newsletter lists grants, fellowships, internships, conferences, publication and study abroad opportunities for graduate students in art history and closely related areas.
  
• - History of art in Yugoslavia - related material: texts, images, projects.
  
• - Study of issues relating to modern and post-modern art, includes reviews of recent projects in the arts including photography, film and museum exhibitions. Political issues also addressed.
  
• - The Art Cellar Exchange's alterego, Arty, looks back at some of the most significant art work produced in modern history and their impact on life today and in the coming millennium.
  
• - Virtual art gallery displaying paintings and poetry from art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries with an emphasis on displaying works of art by artists who have been forgotten or neglected in recent years.
  
• - Record of appearances of and references to famous works of art and architecture in the movies.
  
• - Internet-based art museum experience, includes specialized exhibitions with emphasis on background information not normally available to the public.
  
• - Explores the history of art with information about artists, styles, and periods. Includes resources and reference materials about art history, searchable database, and forums.
  
• - Offering images and a few biographies on a number of 19th and 20th century artists.
  
• - Orazio Centaro's site. Includes a long alphabetical listing of artists and includes links to images that reside on both the OCAIW site and other artist sites on the Web.
  
• - Collects and disseminates information related to the history of collecting and the provenance of individual works of art.
  
• - Dances of Death in Lübeck, Tallinn, Berlin and Denmark. Pictures, books and primary sources. Several books are reproduced.
  
• - This site has information and photos of extant WPA/New Deal art, focusing on Illinois, Ohio, and California. There are extensive biographies, a timeline of the New Deal, and other odd bits of information.
  
• - Exploring the aural aura of masterworks as found in the sounds in the immediate locations of highly regarded paintings, sculptures, and other artworks.
  
• - Features academic information about the art, architecture, and backgrounds of the Ottoman, Papal, Incan, Aztec, Persian, and Mughal empires.
  
• - Collection of authentic danced masks from Mexico and Guatemala with discussions and comments on the art of collecting and other curious observations. Antique masks, patination techniques, insect infestation, techniques of collecting.
  
• - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.
  
• - Based on the Jacques-Edouard Berger collection of images of art objects and essays devoted to the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe.
  
• - Database for the study of the history of art from Utah University. Images and data about works of architecture, sculpture, and painting from prehistory to the 20th century.
  
• - The Internet stepping stone for all those interested in Old Master prints and drawings: publications, events, links to the world's main print rooms, and the periodical Delineavit et Sculpsit.
  
• - Online community and resource guide for the artists and art periods of the past.
  
• - Examples of Christian art and artists illustrate the development of Christian art, from the Christian Treveller's Guides.
  
• - ECIT - Electronic Compendium of Images and Text
  
• - Masterpieces of Mexican Art from the XIX and XX Centuries from private collections.
  
• - Comprehensive and well organized site that offers rich images and concise historical context for artists and art movements ranging from Gothic and Renaissance to Impressionism and Pop.
  
• - A site exploring the enduring fascination of the Mona Lisa, including history, parodies, homages and comments from site visitors.
  
• - About the history of horse representation in art since from ancient times till present.
  
• - From PBS - Sister Wendy Beckett, nun and art commentator, takes viewers on a tour through six of America's greatest art museums.
  
• - Offering a complete history of the firm and detailed reference gallery.
  
• - The Art Browser divides categories of resources by time period and their movements.
  
• - Quick reference for all periods in the art history, images and links.
  
• - Worm or serpent with its tail in its mouth, symbolizing completion, perfection and totality, the endless round of existence. Images and links to images of examples from various periods and cultures.