Artists

The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas - Database of more than 900 works by artists such as Eugéne Delacroix, Honoré Daumier, Paul Cézanne, and Edgar Degas illuminate the range of French art over the course of a century of innovation.
http://www.frenchdrawings.org

WetCanvas: Virtual Museum - A true virtual museum, complete with images, stories, and biographical notes on the great masters.
http://www.wetcanvas.com/Museum/

The Grand Tour: Venice & Rome in the 18th Century - Oglethorpe University Museum exhibition of 18th century landscape and veduta paintings of Venice and Rome. This important exhibit included works by Canaletto, Panini and Ricci.
http://museum.oglethorpe.edu/GrandTour.htm

Olga's Gallery - Large collection of images of the works of many artists, with biographies and historical comments. Sorted by alphabet, topic, movement, and nationality/country. Offers a newsletter, and archives are available.
http://www.abcgallery.com/

All About Artists - Short biographies, image galleries, and timelines of a small selection of painters.
http://www.allaboutartists.com/

Art-Platform.com - Offers images of the works of famous painters.
http://www.art-platform.com

United States Senate Catalogue of Fine Art - Senate document detailing the portraits and sculptures in the United States Senate.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/sd107-11/browse.html

Web Gallery of Art - A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700), currently containing over 6,500 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, and guided tours.
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/

Artquizz - Test your knowledge of all periods of Art, painters and painting with quizzes, games and puzzles. Site aimed for all levels of knowledge, including children pages. Visitors are invited to participate in the making of new pages, in English and in French.
http://quizzart.free.fr/

Four American Painters: Eakins, Homer, Hopper, Sargent - A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent.
http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/ampaintings/more.shtml

Distinguished Artists Series - Distinguished artists, including an alphabetical index of over 2,000 deceased American artists, as provided by Traditional Fine Arts Online organization.
http://www.tfaoi.com/distingu/alvarez.htm

Life of an Artist - Biographies and Galleries - Includes the text of Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists," indexed by artist with selected specific artist galleries.
http://www.artist-biography.info

Art History at Loggia - 'Artists at a Glance' features a select group of some of the most important artists who have shaped the history of art.
http://www.loggia.com/art/artists/index.html

Women Artists in History - Showcase of women artists down through the centuries.
http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html

Famous Painter - Lives and art of famous painters Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vincent Van Gogh. Biographies and images of works.
http://www.famouspainter.com/

Giorgio Vasari - The Lives of the Artists - An illustrated companion to Vasari's Lives, with associated text.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/

The Smart-Ass Guide to Art - Offers humorous biographical notes on artists such as Giotto, Artemisia Gentileschi, Franz Hals, Picasso.
http://www.incompetech.com/art/

AskART.com Artist Reference - Information on American and international artists including bodies of work, valuation and appraisal techniques, auction records, publications, and artists representatives as well as biographies, literature and museum information for American painters and sculptors.
http://www.askart.com/AskART/index.aspx

Brain-Juice - Well-written biographies about 20th century art, film, history, literature, and music. All biographies are written by students at the best U.S. universities, with the strongest concentration from Brown, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
http://www.brain-juice.com

ARC International - The Art Renewal Center - Offering biographical information and high-resolution images of many paintings from the great masters of the 19th century.
http://www.artrenewal.org/

Last Expression - Exploration of the art created by the prisoners at the concentration camp Auschwitz.
http://lastexpression.northwestern.edu/