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Sources in Visual Rhetoric / Margaret D. Zulick, Wake Forest University

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Archives of American Art The Smithsonian Institute's photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America.
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See also https://www.si.edu/search?edan_q=art%2Barchives&
Art Images for College Teaching Photographs of art and architecture around the world with an emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European works.
Artcyclopedia Encyclopedic source useful for browsing artists by their names, mediums, subjects, nationalities and genders.
ArtLex - Art Dictionary Search engine with definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
The Artsnet
AskART Resourde for art appraisals, art for sale, auction records and miscellaneous artists.
Digital Egypt for Universities Includes art, architecture and history of ancient Egypt, complete with 3-D reconstructions of 14 archaeological sites.
Famous Artists Index The art history index of famous artists and masters offers artwork imagery and in-depth information online, including the biographies of over 22,000 artists.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Provides an overview of the history of art as illustrated and represented in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Herron School of Art Library
Making Sense of Modern Art A guide to the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which "uses individual works as case studies illustrating themes, styles, and movements recurring throughout the last century." (A.H. Simmons, National Gallery of Art) See https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/sfmoma-to-unveil-redesigned-web-compatible-making/ Also https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/
Metropolitan Museum of Art Website of the Met Museum in NYC.
Olga's Gallery This site features a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of artists and their works from around the world.
The Art History Research Centre
Search the resources and indexes below the AHRC logo for historical research relevant to art historian work.
The Arts Council Collection
Descriptive information (usually including images) for 7,500 works of modern and contemporary British art.
VADS: The Online Resource for Visual Arts
VADS (Visual Arts Database Service) provides over 120,000 free digital images from collections around Britain, to be used for education and research. Users may search via basic and advanced options, and browse images by theme or by collection.
Web gallery of art Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 18.400 reproductions.

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