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19 Arts Web Sites
ART Collection
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The ART Collection contains over 54,000 digital images from AMICO (the Art Museum Image Consortium) as well as contributions from OhioLINK institutions.
Art Museum Network
The world's largest and most prestigious art museums have joined forces to provide free access to information about their collections, exhibitions, and services.
Artcyclopedia
This site includes an alphabetical listing of artists, movements, mediums, subjects and nationalities.
Artlex Visual Arts Dictionary
Here you will find definitions of art-related terms, illustrations, and a pronunciation guide.
ARTS CLASSifieds
Access community arts education programs on this site developed by the Greater Columbus Arts Council. ARTS CLASSifieds lists local providers of art classes, workshops, and arts-related information.
Columbus Museum of Art
A good-looking site with a special activities feature for children which includes a chance to submit artwork to be shown in the Online Kids Gallery. An online tour of Gallery 10 offers Old Masters in a salon style setting. You can browse the collection or search for a specific exhibition.
Great Buildings Collection
This site documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectual drawings, commentaries and bibliographies.
Greater Columbus Arts Council
This site includes grant applications, resources for arts educators, information on the Columbus Arts Festival, as well as much more information about the local arts community.
Museumlink
This site offers access to the webpages of art museums all over the world as well as other general subject museums.
Ohio Online Visual Artist Registry
View the works of nearly 1,000 artists from Ohio and around the country representing all kinds of art. The website is a joint project of the Columbus Metropolitan Library and Ohio Arts Council.
Old Stones
This site includes art timelines covering the ancient and non-Western world as well as links to other art history resources including original photographs, images and essays.
Oxford Art Online
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Oxford Art Online offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online, a comprehensive encyclopedia of the visual arts, and Oxford art reference sources in a single location.
SOAR/State of the Arts Report
This site showcases the results of a three-year study of the state of the arts in Ohio. Available are statistics from that study as well as newly formed searchable directories of art programs and small arts organizations in Ohio.
Thinker Imagebase
A searchable database of art images from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It can be searched by country, artist, and time period.
Timeline of Art History
Art timelines from antiquity into the seventeenth century. Easy navigation with visuals and index.
Toonopedia
This is a hypertext encyclopedia of cartoons and cartoon characters, including newspaper strips, comic books, magazine cartoons, as well as animated cartoons.
Union List of Artist Names
The Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) is a database from the Getty Research Institue of more than 220,000 names and biographical information about artists and architects from around the world from antiquity to the present.
Vitruvio/Architecture on the Web
A very useful architectual history site with a master index of famous architects and the buildings they are famous for. Detailed plans and images of specific buildings.
