Art & Music: Internet Resources

With over 16 million items in its continually growing collections, the Archives is the world’s largest resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.

Online collection of over 45,000 works and basic information about works of art from all areas.

An interactive database containing authoritative information on 18,000 women visual artists of all time periods and nationalities.

This site provides access to the Smithsonian's online resources. Art topics include African-American art, American art, Chinese art, European art, and Native American art.

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels.

Provides access to over 1,000 objects showing more than 1,800 images of Kentucky’s historic decorative arts, fine arts, folk arts, and design. Here, you can search for images of furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, textiles, paintings, sculptures, and other types of objects made or used by Kentuckians.

An open art history textbook providing video and audio recordings of art historians discussing different works of art. Users can explore by time, style, artist or theme.

The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection.

The Web Gallery of Art is 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 27.600 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available.

The Women in the Arts & Media Coalition combines our member organizations' abilities and strengths, focusing on issues of concern to women in the arts and media. We are committed to being the link between our member organizations as we collaborate to empower women in our industry through advocacy, mentoring, networking, and events.