Look for Books with these Call Numbers

700 Fine and decorative arts: general resources and artists

708 Art galleries and museums worldwide

730 Plastic arts, sculpture

740 Drawing and decorative arts

750 Painting and paintings
790 Recreational and performing arts

For Biographies of Artists look for books in the 920's

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Online Resources to Search

Don't forget to try Encyclopedia Britannica for information on artists or art.

Internet Resources

Movies & Theatre

American Film Institute - American Film Institute's advancing and preserving the art of the moving image.

Cinema: How are Hollywood Films Made? - process of producing a motion picture from the words to the final cut.
Hollywood - news from the Movie capital of the world.

The Internet Movie Database - A database of more than 140,000 movies.

Internet Theatre Library - information about the history, aesthetics and technique of theatre.

Roger Ebert - movie reviews.

Museums

24 Hour Museum - gateway to nonprofit museums, galleries, historic homes and heritage attractions.

Archives of American Art - world's largest collection of primary source documentation on American visual arts.
Europeana - Great art works from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Louvre in Paris and the Mauritshuis in Den Haag are available through this portal.

The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Kyoto National Museum - browse images in 8 categories: archaeology, sculpture, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy, textiles, lacquerware and metalwork.

Museum of Modern Art

Musee Rodin - a museum of Rodin's works.

The Smithsonian Institution HomePage

• Art & Design Galaxy

Smithsonian Natural History Web HomePage

Tate Gallery - home of the national collection of British art from the 16th Century to the present.

Van Gogh Museum - features 14 of the artist's greatest works with sketches, drawings, watercolors and letters.

Van Gogh Paintings - 70 paintings by Van Gogh are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night - The Museum of Modern Art's online exhibition "Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" is the first exhibit to organize his paintings around the theme of night and twilight paintings.

Painting

Artcyclopedia - a guide to museum quality art on the Internet.

Dictionary of Visual Art - browseable collection of terms, definitions, images, graphics and links to museums.

Exploring Leonardo - examines da Vinci's life and accomplishments in architecture, engineering and medicine.

The Impressionists - includes essays about the artists, photos and images of several of their artworks.
Frida Kahlo - documents the life and work of Frida Kahlo. Includes "The Faces of Frida", Kahlo's self portraits, beginning with a 1931 example, painted while Kahlo's style showed the influences of husband Diego Rivera.

Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman - exhibition of about 100 paintings by this American impressionist.

Musée du Louvre

Mark Harden's Artchive - art images, text and articles for historians to professionals.
National Gallery of Art
Sister Wendy's American Collection - American museum collections. Includes color images, commentary and background on the artist.
Web Gallery of Art - a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 14.500 reproductions.

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