Art History: Art History Resources

Digitized titles from their publishing history. Users may view individual titles online, download a PDF, or link to WorldCat catalog, where they may find an original in-print version at a nearby library.

ART21, Art in the 21st Century, is a nonprofit dedicated to engaging audiences with contemporary visual art, inspiring creative thinking, and educating a new generation about artists working today.

The Timeline of Art History presents the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool.
Includes maps, timelines, works, essays and indexes.

You can search by artist/maker/culture; object type/material; geographic location; date/era; or department.

Formerly called Smarthistory, this is an open educational resource for art history; searchable by time, style, artist, and themes.
From the creators: "We built Smarthistory to emphasize the experience of looking at art by using unscripted conversations recorded in front of the work of art whenever possible, by incorporating numerous images and video, and by curating links to high-quality resources on the web."

NGA Images is a repository of over 43,000 open access digital images from the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images.