Art History and Archaeology: Fine Arts Portals

An online encyclopedia of art with more than 8,000 artists listed and more than 2,000 sites indexed with links to online images available for educational use.

Materials from more than 500 auction houses, including over 10 millions antiques. Information includes auction results, estimated value, provenance, photos.

An extensive list of links to art history resources on the web which covers all of Western art history, arranged chronologically from prehistoric to 21st century art.

Definitions for terms dealing with styles, genres, techniques, and media. Many links to images.

Museum information, general resources, electronic exhibitions, organizations, e-journals, libraries and more.

Over 2,000 websites within historical, theatrical ethnic sections.

A gateway to more than 400 sites related to art history: resources for visual collections, image collections, online exhibitions (a selection), fine art schools, , art museums, and textual and linguistic resources.

Smarthistory at Khan Academy offers more than one thousand videos and articles on art from around the world and across time.

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world (from prehistory to the present) illustrated by works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.

The premiere segment of the Timeline, which was launched in October 2000, featured art of the ancient world, including works dating from 20,000 B.C. through 500 A.D. The newly expanded version – the result of extensive research and writing by a team of curators, editors, and scholars [...] – carries the Timeline forward to 1400 A.D.

A wide selection of art resources on the web with links to images.

Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history and unlocking the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, making the history of art accessible to more people, in more places, than any other publisher.

By the numbers:

50 million views in 2021
38 editors
500 academic contributors
4,000 essays and videos
265,000 YouTube subscribers
35 museums have partnered with Smarthistory
600 universities, libraries, and research institutions recommend Smarthistory

An introduction to Smarthistory (video)