General Resources

• The Athenaeum  - Search for works of art by date.

ART SEARCH #1

• Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 25,200 reproductions. Picture commentaries and artist biographies are also available: http://www.wga.hu/index1.html 

ART SEARCH #2

• Mary Adam Art - An e-portfolio of artist, Mary Adam, an Irish oil and watercolor painter, living and working in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Several of the website's main features, are Adam's "Gallery", "Reviews", "Exhibitions" and "Essays": http://maryadamart.com/index.htm 

ART SEARCH #1 AND #2

• Artcyclopedia - a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/index.html

• Art Project, powered by Google - Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces: http://www.googleartproject.com/ 

• CGFA – A Virtual Art Museum – Contains numerous scans of famous art works and artists’ biographies. In most cases you can search by the artist's last name. Once in any artist's section, the works are in order by date where possible: http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/index.html

• Mark Harden’s Artchive - Virtual gallery of classic and contemporary painting, sculpture, as well as art critique, reviews, and links: http://www.artchive.com/

• Virtual Library of Useful URLs – 700-779 Arts & Recreation – Provides an extensive list of informative URLs: http://www.aresearchguide.com/700-779.html

• Best of History Websites -  Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more: http://www.besthistorysites.net/index.shtml

• Art, Design, and Visual Thinking – Interactive text book that introduces the user to basic design concepts and the idea of visual language. (Please note that the “Color Psychology” link, under the heading, Elements of Design is particularly helpful and interesting): http://char.txa.cornell.edu/

ART SEARCH #2:

The following links are an excellent resource from a 2006 NECC presentation by Dr. Christy G. Keeler:

PowerPoint Templates of Galleries

• Blue and Yellow
• Grand Entry
• Warneka Museum

PowerPoint Templates of Single Gallery Rooms

• Blue Walls
• Class Slides
• Long Walls
• Psychedelic

Keller's Training Video

• Watch the video, Building Rooms for Virtual Museums in PowerPoint: http://keelertrainingvideos.blogspot.com/2007/11/building-rooms-for-virtual-museums-in.html