Reference Websites

The work of The Art Story encompasses the history of visual art: from the classical though the contemporary.. Information about artists, movements, and ideas are organized and streamlined, using user-friendly graphical tools.

Features an alphabetical index of artists with links to their work in galleries and online.Artists may be browsed by name, medium, subject, nationality, and women artists. It also includes a list of art museums worldwide with an online presence. A comprehensive list of Art Movements provides another way to view art.

Traditional and modern Asian art. Search by country or type of art. Unlike most Asian art sites, this is translated into English.

The collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum comprises Greek, Roman, and Etruscan art from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity; European art—including illuminated manuscripts, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and decorative arts—from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century; and international photography from its inception to the present day.

Official website of the Louvre, featuring information about the collection, including a variety of virtual tours, a history of the Louvre, 3D features, mini sites, in-depth studies, access to magazine, and more.

Provides a searchable database of artworks from permanent collection and a timeline of art history

The life and works of Michelangelo during his early life, mid years, and final days. It includes links to numerous illustrations and related sites.

Search the collection by artist, medium, or subject. Features tours and in depth studies of art and artists from a variety of time periods and types.

The nation's first collection of American art. Website provides information about the collection, exhibitions, and artist and has the capability to search the collections or browse A-Z..

History and information on the fine arts, architecture, music, and literature of Spain.

Over 100,000 images that are copyright cleared and free to use for learning, teaching, and research in the UK. Also contains learning and teaching resources.

Contains a number of short videos on artists, works of art, past exhibitions, and the collection.

There are several types of graphic design each requiring a specific set of skills and techniques.

Links to resources, competitions, and educational opportunities for the graphic artist, as well as archives of 20,000 graphic design works from AIGS competitions. It also includes articles from the online AIGA publication, Journal of Design.

Get inspired by the work of the graphic designers on this curated list of best graphic design websites.

(Canva) Collaborate and create amazing graphic design for free

This section of the Canva website if full of ideas, tutorials, blogs, and courses to help you with your graphic art designs. To find exactly what you need, at the top of the page, mouse over Learn and choose one of the categories, or a specific topic from one of the categories. Sign up for a free account to save the designs you make.

The CGSociety describes itself as a “global group of digital artists.” It provides resources and detailed information on topics related to digital art.

This site offers feature articles, news, tutorials, interviews, and videos on topics such as graphic design, web design, the cloud, and more, from a variety of sources including Computer Arts magazine

DT&G (Design, Technology & Graphics) first published in 1988 has been online for 29 years. It is dedicated to ideas, tips and tricks and concepts for graphic design, printing and publishing of all kinds.

A source of inspiration for filmmakers, animators and designers, this site shares outstanding work from studios, freelancers and students, provides feature stories that give readers a closer look at influential studios and individuals, offers commentary about the creative process, and more.

Part of the larger Vimeo video sharing site; this "school" teaches people how to make better videos, from choosing a camera on through editing systems. The site is organized into Lessons, containing both text and graphics, in four categories. There are also video tutorials submitted by Vimeo users.

This site lets you actually turn the pages of some of the British Library’s most cherished items. These include historical, scientific and literary works, rare religious texts and beautiful art. Use the magnifying glass to see the detail..

Free access to the full text of Shakespeare's Plays and Poetry

Collection consisting of more than 2,500 television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years and donated to Claremont Graduate University.

This meta- index for most major e-book sites provides links to more than 165,000 digital books, over 145,000 of which are free. Books come from commercial and non-commercial publishers, as well as universities and private sites.

Early Modern Literary Studies is a free online refereed journal whose articles examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Issues from 2013 forward are here. issues from 1994-2012 can be found here, http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls

Full text of hundreds of short stories, , from classics to new, unpublished stories, arranged by category or searchable by title, author, or keyword. Also provides a place for writers to submit their work for publication on the web.

Literary Hub partners with publishers big and small, journals, bookstores, and non-profits to bring daily literary news, advice, commentary, and criticism.of all things literary. Also includes 10 best books of the deade in many categories

Award winning site containing a collection of English literary works, including Medieval, Renaissance, 17th century, Restoration & 18th century, 19th century literature. Biographical information.

Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and frequently updated, this site lists and provides access to over one million free books on the Web.

Offers over 30,000 e-books that are now in the public domain for free download.

The Public Domain Review is a not-for-profit project dedicated to showcasing the most interesting and unusual out-of-copyright works available online, with a focus on the unusual and whimsical.

Primarily concerned with the exposure of lesser-known British women writers of the 19th century. The collection represents an array of genres and is provided by Indiana University.

A joint project of University of North Carolina Press and North Carolina Arts Council, this site features the work of contemporary poets. Each entry includes audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photograph of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the poem, texts of the poems, and a critical biography of the poet. Poems are presented in their original languages, as well as in English translation.

Provides biographical information, as well as reviews and criticism on poets of our time.

This collection of audio recordings of leading 20th-century poets is from San Francisco State University. This is a work in progress that will eventually contain 4000 hours of recordings from 1954 to present.

This publicly funded site from the Academy of American Poets features poems, essays, videos, biographies of poets, and other content celebrating poetry and making it accessible.

Hosted by the University of Toronto, this award winning site contains a chronological history of English poetry, from the early modern English of the Renaissance through postmodern works. Includes information on poetic publications and poets.

The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. All of the music may also be freely printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed and recorded. Music is supplied as PDF files for easy printing.

A public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts. Includes research reports, grant information, links to funding resources, and access to NEA Arts magazine

This image database was developed to provide free and open online access to hundreds of thousands of images from the original and rare holdings of the NY Public Library.

From the Western States Arts Federation, this site is documenting public art in the US and Canada, adding new artwork and evolving continuously.

University of California, Santa Barbara. Collection of humanities related links, including anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, art history, classical studies, cultural studies, cyberculture, dance, gender and sexuality studies, history, legal studies, literature, media studies, minority studies, music, philosophy, photography, politics & government, religious studies.