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Artcyclopedia: the Fine Arts Search Engine

Access: Publicly available resource

Description: Indexes over 1200 arts sites on the web, and offers more than 32,000 links to an estimated 100,000 works by 7,500 renowned artists. The vast majority of the artists in the database specialize in painting and sculpture, but there are links for photography, decorative arts, installation art, naïve art/folk art/outsider art, and architecture.

Search for artists by name, artworks by title, or find Art Museums. You can also browse Artcyclopedia by name, by movement, by medium, by subject, by nationality, or by gender.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s):
Art & Architecture
Publicly Available Resources

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Art Full Text
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Bibliography of the History of Art
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Related Links
TASI Digital Image Archives
Web Gallery of Art ** http://www.wga.hu/index.html **
William Blake Archive ** http://www.blakearchive.org/main.html **
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