Best of the Web: Arts & Humanities » Art

Includes timeline of his life, images of paintings, essays.

A searchable directory to museums in the United States

Selection of art history writings includes sections on theory and criticism, galleries, art links.

A list of Art museum throughout the world with a web presence

Includes "thousands of online photos of historical architecture in Asia from China, Japan, North & South Korea, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, India, Pakistan, & Afghanistan." Browsable by country. Includes information and bibliographies.

The site for the Bauhaus Archive/Museum in Berlin features an illustrated chronicle and analysis of this major movement.

The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recognizes that individuals, societies, and the natural environment are linked through design.

National Gallery of Art teaching resource features essays on various topics including abstraction, figure drawing, historical subjects, landscape and marine art, portraiture, still life, and topographical views. Each section contains annotated images, artists' biographies, and related glossaries.

Official Website of the collection housing "masterpieces of Westernpainting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting." In addition, the "Library is one of the world's great repositories for the documentation and visual study of Western Art and serves as the research arm of The Frick Collection."

This site combines information from A&E Television and the Gale Biography Resource Center relating to the lives and works of Degas, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Bazille, Cassatt, Manet,Sisley and others.

This website includes links to print organizations, print clubs, print publications, publishers and print workshops, selected print galleries and dealers, museums with websites that include prints, print exhibitions, sites to research and history, and print competitions, along with information about their own activities and exhibitions.

The Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization's website offers information and images in the categories of Islamic architecture, calligraphy, coins, and the woven arts. Each topic includes a bibliography.

Information on collections, special exhibitions and events, and featuring 3,500 works from the collection which can be viewed online

"The Archives of American Art, founded in 1954 and a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution since 1970, provides researchers with access to the largestcollection of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States."