Art and Architecture: Websites

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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.

Google Arts & Culture is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.

Located in Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. Search the collection for a specific artist, title, or both

Items digitized from the New York Public Library collections.

Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.

The Web Gallery of Art is a searchable database of European fine arts and architecture (3rd-19th centuries), currently containing over 50.500 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. Use the search to find content related to your interest.

VC offers both introductory and advanced ceramics classes. Follow the VC Ceramics Dept. on their Facebook page!

Dedicated to the creation and maintenance of the world's most comprehensive centralized database about American artists and to the inclusion of painters, sculptors, and illustrators. Contains detailed information on nearly 28,000 American artists. Also provides directories of museums, dealers, auction houses, and professional organizations and a glossary of art terms

Repository of primary materials. Has some 16 million documents--letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documentation--along with catalogues, papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators, museums and related organizations

The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.

A complete, free online course from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on basic architecture. Contains lecture notes, assignments and exams

The SAH Archipedia is an authoritative online encyclopedia of the building world published by the Society of Architectural Historians and the University of Virginia Press. Within this site users will find histories, photographs, and maps for more than 8,500 structures and places. This site also includes landscapes, monuments, artwork, and more

The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people

An award-winning virtual museum dedicated to educating, informing and sharing great photographs. Exhibitions are drawn from the museum's collection, from the earliest daguerreotype portraits to the work of Ansel Adams