All About Artists
Short biographies, image galleries, and timelines of a small selection of painters.
Art and Civilization
Collection of images of the famous artists from Giotto to Duchamp.
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.
Art-Platform.com
Offers images of the works of famous painters.
Artists of the 20th Century
Biographies and photographs of artists of the 20th century with links to a search engine.
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.
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.
Distinguished Artists Series
Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization.
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.
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.
Giorgio Vasari - The Lives of the Artists
An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text.
Last Expression
Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz.
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.
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.
The Grand Tour: Venice & Rome in the 18th Century
Oglethorpe University Museum exhibition of 18th century landscape & veduta paintings of Venice & Rome. This important exhibit included works by Canaletto, Panini & Ricci.
The Smart-Ass Guide to Art
Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso.
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.
WetCanvas: Virtual Museum
A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters.
Women Artists in History
Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.