Art History Guide

Browse by country to see artworks.

Dedicated to furthering the knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts.

Prehistoric to contemporary art the museum with an extensive digital collection.

Provides online resources about the collection.

This is an excellent source for all things art history - including modern. Check out the Timeline of Art History!

Explore thousands of the most significant works of art from the Renaissance to the present day.

The New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), consisting of the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum, the Frick Art Reference Library, and The Museum of Modern Art. Researchers can now discover web archives along with books, journal articles, auction catalogs, traditional archives and a host of other materials while performing a single search in NYARC Discovery.

Known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts.

art and design collection of resources and art including from China, Japan, and South Asia

Making the world's art accessible via the internet.

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions.

Explore art from around the world, photographed in high resolution.

View maps, fine artwork, photographs and more from over 30 renowned collections.

Virtual museum of European painting and sculpture covering 1000 to 1850.

An alternative to the print art history book - lots of videos with important art historians.

A San Jose State University collection that includes around 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.

Art21 produces features focusing exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists throughout the world.

Over 2300 interviews, making it the largest collection of oral histories anywhere on the subject of art. Many of the interviews display selected audio clips.

Digitized Artist Talks from the 20th Century, from Alice Neel to Gordon Parks.

Interviews from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Interviews from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM), Renwick Gallery.

New York Public Library's Artist Dialogues Series provides an open forum for understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. Artists are paired with critics, curators, gallerists, writers or other artists to converse about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.

Features conversations with and projects by a diverse international group of emerging and established artists. TEXT ONLY.

Revealing each artist’s choice of subjects and sources, their influences and awareness of the global reach of pop, the following interviews reveal why artists in different parts of the world turned to this new artistic language to challenge artistic and political orthodoxies. TEXT ONLY.