Artists

All About Artists - Short biographies, image galleries, and timelines of a small selection of painters.
www.allaboutartists.com/

ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.
www.artrenewal.org/

Art History at Loggia - 'Artists at a Glance' features a select group of some of the most important artists who have shaped the history of art.
www.loggia.com/art/artists/index.html

Art-Platform.com - Offers images of the works of famous painters.
www.art-platform.com

Artquizz - 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.
quizzart.free.fr/

AskART.com American Artist Reference - Information more than 52,000 American artists including biographies, bodies of work, valuation and appraisal techniques, auction records, publications, and artists representatives as well as literature and museum information for American painters and sculptors.
www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx

Brain-Juice - 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.
www.brain-juice.com

Distinguished Artists Series - Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization.
www.tfaoi.com/distingu/alvarez.htm

Famous Painter - Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works.
www.famouspainter.com/

Four American Painters: Eakins, Homer, Hopper, Sargent - A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent.
people.bu.edu/rcarney/ampaintings/more.shtml

Giorgio Vasari - The Lives of the Artists - An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/

The Grand Tour: Venice & Rome in the 18th Century - 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.
museum.oglethorpe.edu/GrandTour.htm

Last Expression - Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz.
lastexpression.northwestern.edu/

Life of an Artist - Biographies and Galleries - Includes the text of Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists," indexed by artist with selected specific artist galleries.
www.artist-biography.info

Olga's Gallery - 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.
www.abcgallery.com/

The Smart-Ass Guide to Art - Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso.
www.incompetech.com/art/

United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art - Senate document detailing the portraits and sculptures in the United States Senate.
www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/sd107-11/browse.html

Web Gallery of Art - 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.
gallery.euroweb.hu/

WetCanvas: Virtual Museum - A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters.
www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/

Women Artists in History - Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.
www.wendy.com/women/artists.html