Art Resources Spartanburg Community College Library

Reference books are a good place to start...

Great Artists of the Western World  REF N 40 .G77
History of Art  REF N 5300 .J3 1991b
The Encyclopedia of Visual Art  REF N31 .E53 1989
The Oxford Companion to Art REF N33 .O98 1970
St. James Guide to Black Artists REF N40 .S78 1997

To search for books...

Library catalog: UNICORN
        Suggested subject terms: monet, renaissance

Full text books online: eBooks

Online Encyclopedias

To search for magazine articles...
Note - Off campus users should access using the A-Z database list

Gale Database(journal, magazine and newspaper articles)

Internet sites...

Virtual Museums Online--take virtual tours of museums around the world

http://www.moma.org
Award-winning web site from the Museum of Modern Art.

http://www.metmuseum.org/
Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.si.edu/
Smithsonian Institution

http://www.nga.gov/collection/
National Gallery of Art - Covers works of art and the artist.

http://www.npg.si.edu
National Portrait Gallery--United States.  Hall of Presidents, teaching resources online, biographical information on artists

http://www.npg.org.uk
National Portrait Gallery--London.  Online portraits of historical figures, research publications, access to Heinz Archive and Library.

http://www.tate.org.uk
Tate Gallery.  Over 8000 images online.  Access to expanded Galleries in Liverpool and St. Ives and Tate Modern.  Part of British Art Information Project, which is an initiative to have over 50,000 images online by 2001

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
The Louvre, France.  Home of Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Mona Lisa."

http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi/Default.asp
Uffizi Gallery--Florence, Italy.  Botticelli, Caravaggio, Cimabue and more Italian greats

http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/accademia/
Galleria dell'Acccademia.  Michelangelo's "Statue of David" and "The Prisoners"

http://www.hermitagemuseum.org
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia--Home of paintings and sculpture by Raphael, Titian, DaVinci, Michelangelo and others

General Art Sites

http://www.artnet.com
Artnet.com--the Art Search Engine

http://wwar.com
World Wide Arts Resources

http://adam.ac.uk/index.html
ADAM: The art, design, architecture and media information gateway

http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/CSN/CSN_Main.html
Explore Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Ceiling