Internet Research Tools for Artists and Art Historians
Presentation to GradSTEP - 08/21/02*
This session will focus on the vast amount of visual and textual information that is available online today. Students will learn about relevant search engines, web-searchable image databases, and about excellent museum sites and other arts related materials. The focus will be on exposing interested participants to some of the better quality resources that artists and art historians in particular will find useful.
Search Engines
  Google
  Google Image Search
  Ditto
Searchable Image Databases
  OhioLINK Digital Media Center (some videos too)
  Library of Congress, American Memory, Panoramas
  Web Gallery of Art, Visit to the Sistine Chapel
Museum Sites (not searchable)
  The Getty Collection, ArtsEdNet
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other Sites
  The Artchive
  Masters of Photography
  lii.org
  xrefer.com
  Bibliography of the History of Art (go through library)
*For a more complete list of resources, see My Links.