Artists

» ARC International - The Art Renewal Center
   Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.

   
   http://www.artrenewal.org/

» All About Artists
   Short biographies, image galleries, and timelines of a small selection of painters.

   
   http://www.allaboutartists.com/

» Art History at Loggia
   'Artists at a Glance' features a select group of some of the most important artists who have shaped the history of art.

   
   http://www.loggia.com/art/artists/index.html

» Art-Platform.com
   Offers images of the works of famous painters.

   
   http://www.art-platform.com

» Artquizz
   Test your knowledge of all periods of Art, painters and painting with quizzes, games and puzzles. Site aimed for all levels of knowledge, including children pages. Visitors are invited to participate in the making of new pages, in English and in French.

   
   http://quizzart.free.fr/

» AskART.com Artist Reference
   Information on American and international artists including bodies of work, valuation and appraisal techniques, auction records, publications, and artists representatives as well as biographies, literature and museum information for American painters and

   
   http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx

» Brain-Juice
   Well-written biographies about 20th century art, film, history, literature, and music. All biographies are written by students at the best U.S. universities, with the strongest concentration from Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.

   
   http://www.brain-juice.com

» Distinguished Artists Series
   Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization.

   
   http://www.tfaoi.com/distingu/alvarez.htm

» Famous Painter
   Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works.

   
   http://www.famouspainter.com/

» Four American Painters: Eakins, Homer, Hopper, Sargent
   A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent.

   
   http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/ampaintings/more.shtml

» Giorgio Vasari - The Lives of the Artists
   An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text.

   
   http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/

» Last Expression
   Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz.

   
   http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/

» Life of an Artist - Biographies and Galleries
   Includes the text of Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists," indexed by artist with selected specific artist galleries.

   
   http://www.artist-biography.info

» Olga's Gallery
   Large collection of images of the works of many artists, with biographies and historical comments. Sorted by alphabet, topic, movement, and nationality/country. Offers a newsletter, and archives are available.

   
   http://www.abcgallery.com/

» The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
   Database of more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation.

   
   http://www.frenchdrawings.org

» The Grand Tour: Venice & Rome in the 18th Century
   Oglethorpe University Museum exhibition of 18th century landscape and veduta paintings of Venice and Rome. This important exhibit included works by Canaletto, Panini and Ricci.

   
   http://museum.oglethorpe.edu/GrandTour.htm

» The Smart-Ass Guide to Art
   Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso.

   
   http://www.incompetech.com/art/

» United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art
   Senate document detailing the portraits and sculptures in the United States Senate.

   
   http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/sd107-11/browse.html

» Web Gallery of Art
   A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, and guided tours.

   
   http://gallery.euroweb.hu/

» WetCanvas: Virtual Museum
   A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters.

   
   http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/

» Women Artists in History
   Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.

   
   http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html