Art History and Fine Arts: Art History Websites and Archives

WikiArt features 250,000 artworks by 3,000 artists, localized on 8 languages. It is an accessible database that covering art history by movement, schools/groups, nationality, and medium. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries. Their online catalog also provides tools for translation in many different languages.

The Open Arts Archive is "a live and open archive providing free access to a wealth of artistic, cultural and educational resources, including talks, seminars, study days, artists’ podcasts, artist interviews, curators’ talks and exhibitions. Home to Open Arts Objects, a project which offers free films and teaching materials that support the teaching of Art History in schools, particularly at A-level."

SPACES—Saving and Preserving Art and Cultural Environments—is dedicated to the study, documentation, and preservation of art environments and self-taught artistic activity. It is currently a preservation project of Kohler Foundation. It boasts an archive of approximately 35,000 photographs as well as numerous books, articles, audio and video tapes/DVDs, and artists’ documents. This free, online database allows users to search for art environments by artist name, title of work, or location.

Public Art Archive is a free, online catalog and project that documents public artworks. The Public Art Archive project also runs community engagement efforts to increases public awareness of public art.

Google Arts and Culture works with cultural institutions and artists around the world to provide free online access to art. Search by collections. You can search by Collections, Themes, Artists, and Art Movements, and create your your own collection of objects.