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The Artchive is Mark Harden's superb site, which in addition to the works themselves provides succinct and well-written information on the artists. The site is searchable either by artist or by school/era; other features include Virtual Galleries which allow you to walk through special exhibitions, and Themed Tours where you can explore chosen areas of art. Worth a visit? Worth a hundred. | |||||
| Olga's Gallery describes itself as an online art gallery, and that is exactly what it is. Nothing flashy, and very little blurb - just a friendly, straightforward and huge collection of paintings. How many? I don't know, as they concentrate on delivering the goods rather than talking themselves up. Not much 20th century art (though there are 260 Picassos) but for earlier paintings this is a must. |
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The website of the four Tate Galleries provides clear information about history, visiting details etc., but behind all that the site covers some 25,000 works, with around half of that number available for online viewing. Copyright restrictions prevent you from seeing much of Tate Modern's collection (presumably they don't want teenagers copying Tracey Emin's bed) but apart from that it's the quality you'd expect from The Tate. | |||||
| The National Portrait Gallery is home to over 1m paintings and other images, of which this site has information on 34,000. 11,500 are at present available as online images, a figure being continually added to. A wide choice of search options allow the user to browse by artist, subject/sitter, timeline, types of portrait etc. |
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Eurogallery concentrates on the years 1150 to 1800, and offers
8,500 examples from these years. One excellent feature of this
site is a handy JavaScript resizer.
The Vatican Museums are home to priceless collections of paintings, mosaics, sculpture etc. etc. |
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