The Arts
Fine Arts
ADAM - the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway is a searchable catalogue of Internet resources that have been carefully selected and catalogued by professional librarians
African-Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective - a collection of essays and exhibits on African American art.
Mark Harden's Artchive - an online "museum" offering images of art from galleries and museums from around the world.
National Gallery of Art - This site offers virtual tours of the National Gallery in Washington DC. Good place for locating information on a particular theme or artist.
Origins of American Animation - A digitized collection of animated movies and stills from 1900 to 1921. From the Library of Congress, part of the American Memory Project.
World Wide Arts Resources - offers an interactive gateway to exemplars of arts information and culture on the Internet. Extensive search engine offers access to the more than 8000 artists and art related sites.
World Art Treasures - One of the most original cultural sites on the World Wide Web. This fantastic collection (over 100,000 slides) of art historian Jacques-Edouard Berger is being presented by his father, also a historian, Rene Berger. Currently includes: Vermeer and his contemporaries in Italy, Spain, France, and Holland; Italian Renaissance gardens - Villa d'Este, Bomarzo, Villa Lante; A Shared Vision - Egypt, China; Botticelli - including a history of the world at this time.
Art History
Art History Resources on the Web - a gateway site to annotated lists on art and art history. From Sweet Briar College.
fineArt Forum - Art Museums and Art History - a directory of art museums and art history sites alphabetically by title and subject.
Mother of All Art History Link Pages - this is an extensive listing of art history related links.
Ancient Greece - history mythology, art, culture
Architecture
Great Buildings Online - features "architecture arond the world and across history."
Digital Archives of American Architecture - Contains images and history of American (17th century on) and European architecture.
Architecture of Ancient Greece
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture - This is a large collection of architectural photographs from the Renaissance and Baroque periods in Europe.
Renaissance Art & Architecture
Music
John and Rudy Lomax 1939 Southern States Recordings - from the Library of Congress' American Memory Collection - a "multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as photographic prints, field notes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts" of folksongs of the South.
International Lyrics Server - full-text of thousands of songs with an easy to use search engine.
MHN Instrument Encyclopedia - The Musical Heritage Network's Instrument Encyclopedia's goal is to provide information on 140 instruments in the Sterns Collection of Musical Instruments.
Operabase - this site maintains an extensive gateway site to opera on the web.