| ADAM: The Art, Design, Architecture, and Media Information Gateway | Selected, catalogued, predominantly British sites. |
| Architecture & Allied Arts Library | University of Oregon Art Library. |
| Archives of American Art | Smithsonian Institution. The largest source in the world of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America. Contained in the over five thousand collections, are letters, diaries, sketches and sketchbooks, photographs, exhibition catalogs, scrapbooks, business records, art periodicals, and other types of documents, totaling roughly fourteen million items. No full text available. |
| Art and Architecture Thesaurus | Paul Getty Trust. >125,000 terms related to "fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture". |
| Artcyclopedia | Comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources," a custom search engine, a list of museums and more. Emphasis is on fine art painting and sculpture, and additional coverage is provided for photography, decorative arts, architecture, and video, digital and web-based art. |
| ArtLex | Dictionary of visual art. Covers over 2,500 terms. Numerous illustrations, quotations, pronunciation notes, and links. |
| CAMEO | Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Conservationa and Art Material Encyclopedia Online. Art conservation and historic preservation technical information. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica | Online Version. |
| Union List of Artist Names | Paul Getty Trust. >220,000 names with accompanying brief information such as birth/death dates, nationality, etc. |
| World Wide Arts Resources | A guide to over 200,000 works of art. The largest online contemporary art site since 1995. Search by medium, subject matter, price and theme. |