The National Gallery, London houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world - The National Gallery's permanent collection spans the period from about 1250 to 1900 and consists of Western European paintings...

Around 2600 "entries on artists and their works, styles and movements, art forms and art terms, combined with more modern methodologies, focused on patronage, taste, theory, and criticism, and the scientific examination of materials and techniques...

"Guide to the art of the Western world…ranging across painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts from classical times to the present...

User-friendly compact guide to photographic techniques as well as ideas and movements...

Citations only for art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held...

The purpose of this rich and stimulating collection of world textiles has been to provide real examples that demonstrate the application of a broad range of textile techniques and processes, encouraging students to handle textiles and to respond to their qualities and to question and analyse them as a primary source; it plays a central role in stimulating creative investigation and supporting students in their understanding of the factors influencing textile design and production...

This image database contains over 80,000 images of artworks in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor...

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

"A structured vocabulary containing around 120,000 records, including 293,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants...

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries (up to the French Revolution)...

International project, led by UNESCO and the Library of Congress, for digitizing cultural artifacts from around the world, drawing material from more than 30 national libraries and other institutions from around the world...

Huge directory of arts sites, covering art, theater, architecture, dance, and antiques...

Database of more than 60,000 images of art objects from around the world, covering all periods of history...