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CODART: Dutch and Flemish Art in Museums

"CODART is a worldwide network of museum curators of Dutch and Flemish art. The CODART directory is the best guide to Dutch and Flemish art on the Internet." The site features a geographical list of museums throughout the world with Dutch a ...

http://www.codart.nl/

Art and Oracle: African Art and Rituals of Divination

Companion to an exhibition that presents "African artifacts created to communicate with ancestors, spirits, and gods in order to obtain insight into human quandaries. The term 'divination' describes efforts to foretell future events." Feat ...

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/oracle/index.html

Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love

Companion website to a 2008 exhibition about "Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) [who] is associated with the lighthearted Rococo art of prerevolutionary France. ... This exhibition focuses on the most popular compositions of Fragonard's lat ...

http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/consuming_passion/

A Global Guide to Islamic Art

This guide to art "made in societies where Islam was the dominant religion" describes where to view works (such as "calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing," and figural representations, especially of plants). Features an annota ...

http://saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200901/a.global.guide.to.islamic.art.htm

American Art American City

"The Terra Foundation for American Art is proud to present American Art American City (AAAC), a lively initiative in Chicago promoting the awareness and enjoyment of historical American art. Through December 2008, this city-wide celebration shin ...

http://www.terraamericanart.org/aaac/

American Historical Periods

"LACMA's Collection of American Art serves as an excellent survey of the development of art and culture throughout the United States." View short essays and works of art by period such as early American painting, America comes of age (mid-1 ...

http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=exhibit;id=3732

American Masters From Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection

Companion to an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) featuring paintings and drawings from the collection of "one of the most widely known and respected authorities on American art." Features an overview of the exhibit, ...

http://www.nga.gov/feature/wilmerding/

Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA)

This museum is the "home of the state's official art collection, [and] focuses on the art of Nebraska and Nebraska artists." Its site features brief biographical sketches and images of works by artists with ties to Nebraska such as artist e ...

http://monet.unk.edu/mona/

Henry Wood Elliott: An American Artist in Alaska

Illustrated essay about Henry Wood Elliott (1846-1930), remembered in history as "an eccentric character who helped save the Alaska fur seals from probable extinction, but [who] was also one of the first American artists to work in Alaska. ...

http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/features/elliott.htm

Cuban Art/Arte de Cuba

"This site has been established by the Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange Association in order to showcase the paintings of contemporary artists working in Eastern Cuba." The site features images of paintings and photographs and biographies of ...

http://www.cubanart.org

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