Open Directory - Arts: Art History: Artists
See also: This category in other languages: - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century. - Offers images of the works of famous painters. - Encyclopedia webpage featuring biographies, styles, artworks and critical receptions regarding worldwide famous artists. - 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. - 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 sculptors. - 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. - Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization. - Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works. - A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent. - An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text. - Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz. - 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. - Features comprehensive art collections found through artists’ names and work titles. In addition, provides highlights, news and exhibitions. - Displays over 3,000 artists listed by name, in ascending order showing their artworks in high detail images. - 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. - 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. - Presents a wide list in alphabetic order providing biographies and images of their artwork. Includes historical background information on each artwork. - Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso. - 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. - A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters. - Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.
