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Art Encyclopedia

Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online is a great place to learn background information about a person, medium, movement, or other art-related topics. It is one of the most important and up-to-date encyclopedias of art.

Art Full Text
Art Full Text is a database of the scholarly, popular, and trade literature on art as well as information from museums. You can access articles from journals like African Arts, American Art, Art Education, and October.

JSTOR
JSTOR (www.jstor.org) is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. For complete lists of titles and collections, please refer to http://www.jstor.org/about/collection.list.html.

ARTstor
ARTstor is an image database filled with high-quality digital images of works in museums around the work.

The Met
Collection highlights and Open Access works of art
Getty Search Gateway
"The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids."
Rijksmuseum Digital Collections
Browse nearly 650,000 works in the museum's collection.
National Galley of Art
Search or browse by medium works in the digital collection.
Google Art & Culture
"Explore collections from around the world."
British Library Turn the Pages
Turn the Pages provides interactive digitizations of important manuscripts including Leonardo da Vinci's notebook, William Blake's notebook, The Lindesfarne Gospels, and the Sherborne Missal.
Creative Commons Search
Free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Digital Collections at the Library of Congress, including art and architecture, photographs, portraits, and more

Smarthistory
"Smarthistory is a center for public art history with thousands of free videos and essays written by experts who want to share their knowledge with learners around the world."
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum eBook Collection
"As a vital part of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s mission as an educational institution, the Guggenheim Museum’s Publications Department publishes books and catalogues to document its exhibitions and collections."
ArtxHistory
"ArtxHistory is an education resource of commonly available images, videos, mini-lectures and scholarship of the decades which influenced or defined the mid-century through contemporary art."