Arts, Crafts, Museums

• MetPublications

• Community for Accredited Online Schools
  • The Complete Guide to Art Schools - Best Art Schools and Colleges
  • A Guide to Practical Art Degrees - Combining the Artists's Life with a Viable Career
  • Careers in Art
  • Performing Arts Schools
  • Game Design Schools and Programs
  • Online Art Schools & Degrees
  • Funding Your Art Degree - Scholarships & Grants for Art Students

• History of Art Timeline | The Evolution of Visual Art | Art Encyclopedia

  

• Top Fifty States - Art
  • Art from the Northwestern United States

• Art Unframed: Art reproduction oil paintings & portraits
  • Artists Wanted

• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
  • General Fine Art Links

• The Offical Charles Fazzino 3-D Pop-Art Website
  • Virtual 3-D Diorama

• John Singer Sargent Home Page

  

• Carl Spitzweg
  • Carl Spitzweg | Wikipedia
  • Carl Spitzweg | The Famous Artists
  • Carl Spitzweg | Biography | Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Carl Spitzweg | WikiArt

• Wikiart: Visual Art Encyclopedia
  • Martín Rico y Ortega | 68 Artworks
    "On the Seine" | The Met
  • Perspective with a Portico - Canaletto
    unbelievable

• Martin Rico y Ortega | Wikipedia

• Meadows Museum
  • Past Exhibitions of Martin Ortega

• WWW Virtual Library: ARTS

• The arts online: visual, performing & literary arts on the web

• NYFA: New York Foundation for the Arts

• ART.COM
  • Gauguin Prints

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• Artsy.net
  • Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
  • Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)
    • Exhibitions - Preview of Works | Foundation Beyeler
• Barewalls
  • Van Gogh Posters
  • Gauguin Posters
  • Art Prints Posters | 199,934

  

• Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art
  • Digital Archive | Documenting 35 years of Seattle's cultural history

• Art on the Net
  "We would like to provide artists with a space for them to create their own web studios."
  • The Art on the Net Gallery...
  • Art on the Net: Submissions
• Starving Artists
  • ABOUT
• ArtScene
  ArtScene is a comprehensive guide to the fine art galleries and museums of Southern California.

• The Phillips Collection
  The Phillips Collection is home to an extraordinary collection of more than 4,000 works ranging from masterpieces of French impressionism and American modernism to contemporary art.
  • Luncheon of the Boating Party by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Luncheon of the Boating Party Story/Theme | Artble
• Where's the Lunch? Looking at Renoirs' Luncheon of the Boating Party | Smithsonian

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• Paris - Official Website of the Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • Musee du Louvre

• The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of Art
  “For the first time ever,” says last week’s press release, “the entire Louvre collection is available online, whether works are on display in the museum, on long-term loan in other French institutions, or in storage.”

• Le Louvre Tickets & Tours (and other things to do in Paris)

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• What are the Humanities? | As Defined by the Ohio Humanities Council
• What are the Humanities? | Stanford
  • Art & Art History | PDF File | by Nacy J. Troy, Professor or Art History - Stanford
• What are the Visual Arts? | ThoughtCo
• Experiencing the Humanities | Online Textbook by Richard Jewell
  • Elements of the Arts
  • Visual Arts
• Visual arts | Wikipedia
  • Media Presentation
• Visual Artists Network

• Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
  • Art History
• Art History Guide | ThoughtCo
• ART History Resources | Christopher Witcombe - Art Historian
• Timeline of Art History | Heilbrunn - The Met

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• Native American Art
  • Native American Home Pages - Music and Art
    Record Labels, Distributors, Sources for Native Music, Arts Organizations, and Reviews
  • Native American Artists | Artcyclopedia
  • List of Native American Artists | Wikipedia
  • WWW Virtual Library: American Indians
    Index of Native American Artist Resources on the Internet
  • Native American Art
    • Tonita Peña Pueblo Painter
  • Native American Indian Arts and Crafts
  • Somerset Fine Art
    • Martin Grelle - Cowboy Artist
      Performing a Google Image search on Martin Grelle, or any artist, for that matter,
      will return more images than you're likely to find at an online gallery.
  • The Art of Del Iron Cloud, Hunkpapa Lakota
    • Gallery
  • Del Iron Cloud - Hunkpapa Lakota | Akta Lakota Cultural Center
  • Pueblo Pottery
  • Maya - Inca - Aztec
    Maya Inca Aztec is an educational website; Art, History, and Culture. It combines accurate historical research with the photography of Warren Michael Stokes, and the illustrations of Mexico's Diego Rivera.
    • Maya Inca Aztec Art History

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• In the Spirit of Tradition - Three Generations of Women Artists | By Tony Gengarelly - Folk Art Society of America
• Welcome to the World Wide Quilting Page

• Embroidery
  • Embroidery as Art | Blog
  • Embroidery Art: More and More Common in Contemporary Expression | Angie Kordic
  • Embroidery Library Projects
    • Fabrics 101: Embroidery on Silk
    
  • Elite Silk Embroidery Arts
  • Silk Embroidery | Wormspit
    A Site About Silkworms, Silkmoths & Silk
  • Stitchpunk
    • Tips for Embroidering on 5 Types of Tricky Fabric
  • Craftsy.com | Online Classes
    • Embroidery Classes
    • Embroidering Luxury Fabrics by Machine
      • Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials | Blog
  • 10 Contemporary embroidery artists | Textile Artist
    • Stitch
  • 10 Artists who Contemporize the Ancient Craft of Embroidery
  • 12 Inspiring Embroidery Artists That Make Us Swoon | Rachel Sumner
  • Embroidery | Wikipedia

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  Performing a Google Image search for embroidery will return an amazing assortment of images.
  Each is associated with a webpage.

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• Museum of American Frontier Culture
• Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
• National Trust for Historic Preservation

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• Museums
  • Smithsonian Institution
    • National Museum of American Art | Smithsonian Institution
      
      • African American Art | Collections
    • National Museum of African Art | Smithsonian Institution
  • Exhibition: The African Origin of Civilization | The Met
  • Virtual Library - Museums Around The World
  • The Witt Museum
  • Gibraltar National Museum
  • Welcome to the Guggenheim Museum
  • The Metropolitan Museum
    • Collection
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
    • Explore Collections
  • Florida Museum
  • Meadows Museum
  • Exploratorium Home Page
  • The Franklin Institute Science Museum
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • The Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art
    • Works on Paper from the National Museum in Warsaw
  • Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art | Wikipedia
  • The National WWII Museum in New Orleans

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• Surrealism
  • The Surrealist Movement in the Uited Satates
  • Surrealism USA | Hatje Cantz
  • Traditional Fine Arts Organization
    • Resource Library
      • Surrealism USA
  • Filling In the Many Gaps in American Surrealism | by Roberta Smith - The New York Times
  • What is Surrealism | Early 1920s to the Present | ThoughtCo
  • Salvador Dali: Paintings, Biography, and Quotes
  • Salvador Dali: Spanish Painter, Sculptor, Filmmaker, Printmaker, and Performance Artist | The Art Story
  • The Dali Universe: modern art exhibitions and sculpture
    • Salvador Dali and Surrealism

  

  • The Art Story - Modern Art Insight
    • Surrealism
  • Art Encyclopedia | Visual Arts of Painting | Sculpture | Architecture | Photography | Ceramics and other crafts
    • Surrealism: Origins, Influences, History, Characterisitcs
  • Art Movements Directory
    • Surrealism
  • Surrealism | Wikipedia
  • Joseph Cusimano: Metaphysical Surrealist Artist

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Performing a Google Image search on surrealism will return an amazing collection of images,
each associated with a web page.

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• Liza Lou
• Liza Lou | Art News
  Liza Lou is the contemporary art world’s preeminent poet of beads. She has sewn odes and lamentations with them, used them as a means of witness and a vehicle for critique, expanded their grammar. She continues to prove them more versatile and eloquent than even their ancient, global history would attest.
• Liza Lou | ARTNET

• Gallery of Ariana Richards
  Ariana played the girl with the famous scream in the movie Jurassic Park; now a great artist.

• Carol Ann Gallery
  Carol Hager has been hand crafting fine art pieces for over 20 years. She is internationally known for her work with incredibly detailed miniature dioramas of scenes of everyday life in America.
  • Earring Gallery
• Lark In The Morning | World Musical Instruments, Books, Recordings and Videos
  Lark In The Morning is a musician's service founded in 1974 that specializes in hard to find musical instruments, music and instructional materials.

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• What is Archaeology? | Society for American Archaeology
• List of Archaeology Sites by Country | Wikipedia
• Life and Art of an Ancient Arctic People | Canadian Museum of History

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• A Scientific Portal for French Virtual Archaeology
• Multimedias Great French Archeological Sites | Culture.fr.

• Lascaux Cave and Chauvet Cave | Facts and Details
• Paleolithic Picassos? | Slideshare
  A Journey in prehistoric Art of the Lascaux and Chauvet Caves of Southern France
• Famous Paintings: Cave Paintings in Spain and France
• Cave Paintings | Video - YouTube
  Documentary of artist Ardis Harsche, and her Cave Paintings series created using Encaustic Painting techniques.
• The Origin of Our Species by Chris Singer - review | The Guardian

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• The Cave of Chauvet
  • The Cave of Chauvet - Pont D'arc | Virtual Tour
    
  • The Vallon-Pont-D'arc Cave - Chauvet Cave
  • Chauvet Pont D'arc | Ancient Wisdom
    
  • Gallery - Chauvet Cave, France
    
  • The Art of the Chauvet Cave - Ice Age Paleolithic Cave Paintings
    Bradshaw Foundation
  • Prehistoric Cave Paintings of Horses Were Spot-On, Say Scientists
    Popular Archaeology
  • Chauvet Cave | Wikipedia
    The dates have been a matter of dispute but a study published in 2012 supports placing the art in the Aurignacian period, approximately 32,000–30,000 BP. [If a radiocarbon lab reports an age of 13000 years BP, they are implying that the fossil would have died 13000 years before 1950 AD.]
    • Slideshow of Paintings

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If you wish to see them without context, perform a Google Image search for chauvet cave paintings.

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• The Cave at Lascaux
  • Finding Lascaux | International Committee for the Presrvation of Lascaux
  • The Cave Paintings at the Lascaux Cave - An Introduction | Bradshaw Foundation
  • Prehistoric Art - Cave Paintings at Lascaux
  • Cave Paintings at Lascaux - Virtual Tour
  • Lascaux | A Video Tour Through the Cave
  • Lascaux Cave Paintings - Virtual Tour | Vimeo
  • Lascaux Cave Paintings - Virtual Tour | YouTube
  • Lascaux (ca. 15,000 B.C.) | Heilbrunn - Timeline of Art History - The Met
  • This Day in History: September 12, 1940 - Lascaux cave paintings discovered
  • LIFE at Lascaux: First Color Photos From Another World | Time.com
  • Lascaux Cave Paintings | Art Encyclopedia
    Discovery, Layout, Meaning, Photographs of Prehistoric Animal Pictures
  • Lascaux | Wikipedia
    These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old.
    • Slideshow of Paintings

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If you wish to see them without context, perform a Google Image search for lascaux cave paintings.

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• Natural History Museums
  • The Virtual Fossil Museum | Fossils, Geological Time, and Evolution
  • Everything Fossils -- Fossil Information for Education, Collecting, and Fun!
  • Natural History Museums by Location
  • Paleobiology Home | Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of Natural History
  • Evolution of Life and Land | Florida Museum
  • Prehistoric Mammals A to Z | ThoughtCo
    • Giant Mammal and Megafauna Pictures and Profiles
  • Wikipedia
    • Megatherium
      Megatherium was one of the largest land mammals known, weighing up to 4 tonnes (1 tonne=2200 lbs)
      and measuring up to 6 m (20 ft) in length from head to tail.
    • Pleistocene megafauna

  • The Franklin Institute Science Museum
    
  • Polar Museums Directory | Scott Polar Research Center
    
  • The Natural History Museum, London, England
    The United Kingdom's National Museum of Natural History
  • Museum of the Rockies Paleontology
  • American Museum of Natural History
    • Division of Paleontology - Search Paleontology Database
  • Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History
  • Welcome to UCMP: University of California Museum of Paleontology
    This site is the beginning page for Berkeley's Natural History Museum tour.
    • The Dinosauria
  • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
  • DinoDictionary: Dinosaurs A-Z
  • Wyoming Dinosaur Center

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  • Prehistoric/Dinosaur Art
    • The World of Charles R. Knight -- Gallery

  
  • Karen Carr Studio | International Wildlife and Natural History Artist
    • Marine Animals and Fish
    • Murals, illustrations and graphics for Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Objects of Wonder
    
  • John Sibbick Illustration: Prehistoric | Natural History | Fantasy
  • An Alphabet of Dinosaurs (Part 1) | Paleoartworks by Wayne D. Barlowe | Images
    • An Alphabet of Dinosaurs (Part 2) | Paleoartworks by Wayne D. Barlowe | Images
  • Joe Tucciarone Dinosaurs | Art.com
    • Spinosaurus: The Largest Carnivorous Dinosaur | Live Science
  • Davide Bonadonna | Paleontology Illustrations and Models
  • Staab Studios
    Natural History and prehistoric life models for museums, publishing, film and private collectors.
  • When Dinosuars Ruled the Mind | Luis V. Rey's Art Gallery
  • DINOSAURS: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopaedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
    Written by Thomas R. Holtz and the artwork in the book is by Luis V Rey
  • Thomas Holtz's Dinosuar Encyclopedia

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• Sculptures and Sculptors
  • International Sculpture Center | Publisher of Sculpture Magazine
  • Sculpture Network
  • Sculpture | Wikipedia
  • 12 of the best sculptures in pictures | The Telegraph
  • 10 Amazing Contemporary Sculptures | oddee
  • 25 of the Most Creative Sculptures and Statues From Around the World | BoredPanda
  • Artsy.net
    • The Top Ten Sculptors Working Today | July, 2013 - Artsy Editorial
  • Boston Sculptors Gallery
    • Who We Are
  • Paul Day Sculpture

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• A Virtual Tour of the American Museum of Papermaking
• Medical Illustrators' Home Page | Featuring the Work of Susan Gilbert
• Museum of Broadcast Communications
  Welcome to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. One of only two broadcast museums in America, the MBC examines popular culture and contemporary American history through the sights and sounds of television and radio.
• ASC: The American Society of Cinematographers

• Art & Architecture
  • Art History Worlds
    This is a course in the history of art and architecture around the world. It is divided into time lines so that one can see what was happening simultaneously in various cultures during any given era.
  • ArtSource - Table of Contents
    Welcome to ArtSource, a gathering point for networked resources on Art and Architecture.
    • Art and Architecture Libraries
    • Architecture Resources
  • Architecture Timeline - Historic Periods and Timelines of the West | ThoughtCo
  • Architecture Timeline | Ancient History Encyclopedia
  • A Menu of Architectural Types | The Great Buildings Collection
  • History of Architecture | History World
  • Wikipedia
    
    • History of architecture
    • Timeline of architectural styles

  • Westminster Abbey
    • History
      • Architecture

  • Ubeda and Baeza - Spain - Rennaissance Architecture | UNESCO
  • ArtServe at the Australian National University
    Art & Architecture - mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia

• Public Works of Art
  • Public Art | Definition - History - Types | Art Encyclopedia
  • The Best Public Art in the World | Lonely Planet
  • Art for the Peiople - Public Art Around the World | Huffpost Arts & Culture
  • 20 Bizarre Public Works of Art From Around the World
  • The 10 best public works of art | The Guardian
  • Public Art Archive | Public Art Throughout the United States

• Blatte's Pages
  • Blatte's Fractals
• Fractals | Paul Nylander

• Pictures of Beautiful and Remarkable Mandalas | Wikipedia
• The Mysterious Lives Of Cats Captured In Black And White Photography | Bored Panda

  

• Pictures of Butterflies
  
  • Southeast Asia Butterflies | Photos by Sandy Schwinn
  • Our Butterfly Collection | Missouri Botancial Garden
  • Bugs of the World | Richard Seaman - The Flying Kiwi
    • Butterflies of Vietnam

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• Web Gallery of Art
  The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries. It is intended to be a free resource of art history primarily for students and teachers.

  

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• Peabody Essex Museum
  
  • Collections
    To engage the mind and spirit, the PEM collection offers outstanding works primarily from the 1700s to today: paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, textiles, architecture and decorative objects.
• 100 Of The World’s Top Art Galleries (Listed By Country)
• Wentworth Gallery Home Page
• The Cosmic Cafe & Outer Space Art Gallery
  • Galactic Gallery
    • Chesley Bonestell
• Chesley Bonestell | Encyclopedia Britannica

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• Leonardo da Vinci
  • Leonardo da Vinci - The Complete Works
  • Leonardo da Vinci | History.com
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) | Bio.com
  • Leonardo da Vinci | Encyclopeida Britannica
  • Leonardo da Vinci - His Paintings and Life
  • Leonardo da Vinci - Renaiassance Man | Museum of Science

  

• Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
  • Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | The Art History Archive
  • Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | Artcyclopedia
  • Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | Khan Academy
  • Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun | Bio.com
  • Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun | Wikipedia

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• The Traditional Chinese Tea Ceremony | Rivertea Blog
• Art Galleries | Holy Mountain Trading Company
• Chinese tea culture | Wikipedia

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• The Official M.C. Escher Website
  • Gallery - All Mediums
    Lithograph - Woodcut - Mezzotint - Linoleum Cut - Wood Engraving - Watercolor - Etching - Pencil - Ink - Paint - Chalk

• Lithography
  
  • History of Printing | Wikipedia
    • Woodblock printing
    • Lithography
  • Lithography - printing | Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Lithography | Video - YouTube
  • Introduction to Lithography | Khan Academy
    • Lithography Process
  • What is Lithography? | Tamarind Institute - University of New Mexico
  • Lithography in the Nineteenth Century | Heilbrunn - Timeline of Art History - The Met
  • Lithography | Ocean Works Press
  • Lithography - Type of Printmaking | Art Encyclopedia
  • The History of Lithography | PDF File | University of Houston
  • Vintage Lithography Illistrations

• Woodblock Carving
  • Woodcut / wood block carving technique and demonstration | YouTube
  • Printmaking Tutorial | YouTube
    Woodcarving with Woodblock Tools. Intaglio Tricks and Techniques Demo
  • Tutorial: Woodblock printing | Monoprints.com
  • Printmaking Essentials: Carve and Print Your Own Woodblock
  • Diary of Carving Woodblocks

• Engraving
  • The Art of Original Engraving
  • Engraving | Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Fine-art Etchings and Engravings | Collectors Guide
  • Engravings | Albrecht Durer | Web Gallery of Art
  • Durer's Woodcuts and Engravings | Khan Academy

• Stained Glass
  • Stained Glass Association of America
  • How Stained Glass Works | HowStuffWorks
  • Arts and Humanities | Khan Aacademy
    • Art of Medieval Europe
      • Early Medieval Latin(Western Europe)
        • Stained Glass: history & techniques
  • The Making of Stained Glass Windows — From Medieval Times to Modern Times
  • Chartres Cathedral Medieval Stained Glass Windows
  • The Development of Stained Glass in Gothic Cathedrals | PDF File | by Elizabeth Reynolds
  • Stained glass | Wikipedia
  • Stained Glass | Encyclopedia.com
  • Stained Glass | Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Stained Glass - History | Depaul University
  • History of Glass
    • The History of Stained Glass
  • Stained Glass | PDF File | University of Illinois Extension
  • Timeline of Art History | Heilbrunn - The Met
    • Works of Art
    • Stained Glass in Medieval Europe
  • The History of Stained Glass Windows | by Bill Herren
  • The Most Stunning Stained Glass Windows in the World | Huffington Post

• Deviant Art | The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
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Performing a Google Imgage search on stained glass windows will return a multitude of images,
each associated with a web page or site. Additionally, you're given a selection of periods.

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