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Covering over 5000 years of the Indian cultural heritage, this collection is a blend Pre-historic Archaeology, Jewellery, Paintings, Decorative arts, and much more.

WorldImages

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. The images can be located using many search techniques on the left hand toolbar, from QuickSearch to Advanced and ADA Searches. For convenience the images are organized into over 800 portfolios that appear alphabetically in the Portfolio List . You can use them or explore the database using Browse Collections . http://worldart.sjsu.edu/?sid=8815&x=1705018
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/

Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history

Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered.
Watch this short video and try to identify the location of the sculptures. Then see how art and these sculptures relate to the science of mathematics.

Multimedia-NCES Kids' Zone

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/grabbag/MultiMedia/index.asp
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Museum of London - Online

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/ Fondation Jacques-Edouard Berger - World Art Treasures (français) Private Collection Jacques-Édouard Berger (1945-1993), a leader of cultural trips to Europe, Egypt, United States and Near and Far East ( he had brought back over 100,000 pictures , for purposes of courses and lectures ( 'On Behalf of Art' ), was also a passionate collector of Art. After his death, the Fondation Jacques-Edouard Berger deposited his very important collections with the City of Lausanne (Switzerland) with a view to their installation in the Musée de design et d'arts appliqués contemporains (mudac) . Egypt : Predynastic Period - Old Empire - Middle Empire - New Empire - New Empire & Late Period - Late Period - Late & Greco-Roman Period - Greco-Roman Period - Coptic Period - 19th Century

Fondation J.-E Berger: World Art Treasures

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

http://hirshhorn.si.edu/ On the occasion of the installation of Ai Weiwei's public sculpture Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, 2010, the Hirshhorn screens the first episode in the new season of PBS's a... Roni Horn works across many media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installation, to explore issues of gender, identity, androgyny, and the complex r...
http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3.html

The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights

The collection of Western European art is regarded as one of the finest in the world, and forms the nucleus of the Hermitage display. It occupies 120 rooms in the four museum buildings, and reflects all the stages in the development of art from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection includes numerous works by outstanding masters from Italy, Spain, Holland, Flanders, France, England, Germany, and other Western European countries. Great numbers of various items of applied art are presented side by side with paintings and sculptures. Due to their great fragility, prints and drawings are displayed only in temporary exhibitions according to international practice.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Between 500 and 1000, successive waves of conquerors—Ostr.hs, Byzantines, Langobards, Franks, and Arabs—capture and recapture strategic cities in the Italian peninsula and Sicily and erect monuments to assert their legitimacy. Because of the many peoples active in the Italian peninsula, art of the period shows the influence of many different styles. More »
The Robert J. McKnight Memorial Web Site Welcome to the Alphabet of Art. This site explains, in simple terms, the elements of visual design. Once you understand the Alphabet, you'll be able to "read" pictures and other works of visual art and understand why they work the way they do. Pardon our dust! http://www.guidancecom.com/alphabet/

The Alphabet of Art

Seattle Art Museum: School and Educator Programs

The SAM sites below are of special interest to students, teachers and parents. These sites have online art tours and interactive games, lesson plans and art activities, background information and discussion ideas, and glossaries, bibliographies, Web links, and more! Gaylen Hansen: Three Decades of Painting This interactive website examines Gaylen Hansen’s influences; it includes audio clips from an interview with the artist as well as a timeline of his work.

Restoration Online - Restoring a Masterwork I: Castiglione's The Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua

This online exhibition presents the perspectives of curators and conservators on the history, symbolism, and restoration of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione's seventeenth-century painting, The Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua. The restoration process was documented in the fall of 1999 through text, photography, and video.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org

Fee includes same-day admission to the Main Building and The Cloisters museum and gardens. There is no extra charge for entrance to exhibitions.