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Art History

On this website you will see the different stages of art history, discover the most famous paintings and sculptures and find a detailed analysis.

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Smarthistory is one of the most visited art history websites in the world. It offers a mix of essays and videos from knowledgeable contributors that will appeal to beginners and experts alike.

WikiArt features images of more than 250,000 pieces of art by more than 3,000 artists. Much of the art is not on public display; stored in vaults or displayed in universities, town halls

This website aims to disseminate fine arts, information about artists and certain works of art in particular due to their historical significance and use.
educational or didactic.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the largest art museum in the United States, but its website is a fantastic resource for people interested in art history.
On the home page, it is the Art tab that deserves your attention. Inside the tab, you will find a link to the museum’s art history timeline.
The Timeline is a collection of essays, art photographs, and timelines from various periods in history. Each section has an overview, a list of key events, a scrolling timeline, and a host of associated images of paintings, artifacts, and other illustrations. It is difficult to know how much information is available.
You can filter the timeline by time period, geographic location, and artistic theme.

With more than 40,000 works signed by 9,000 artists, it has a very extensive collection of high-resolution images to enjoy the works of art exhibited in the most important museums in the world, while enjoying an interesting virtual tour through its galleries. . And what museums can we explore? From the Uffizi Gallery in Florence to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, passing through the MOMA in New York or the Tate Britain & The National Gallery in London, among other references. Our country is represented by the Reina Sofia Museum, the Thyssen-Bornemisza, the América Museum, the Casa Cervantes… Google Art Project has a section called ‘User Galleries’ so that Internet users can include their favorite paintings and sculptures.

WikiPaintings is an encyclopedia dedicated to painting, and we can navigate through it (and with the click of a mouse) from two menus: ‘Artists’ and ‘Works’.
Thus, the first allows us to study painters based on different criteria such as artistic movement, century or school and group. For its part, the second includes style, genre, technique… From this page, students have the opportunity to discover the work of artists such as Michelangelo, Salvador Dalí, Vang Gogh, Picasso, El Greco, Goya or Of gas; artistic movements such as Baroque, Romanticism or Realism; and techniques such as watercolor, collage, enamel or graphite, among others.