Research Guides: Art History: Get Started

Use the navigation on the left to find resources to deepen your understanding of the key concepts in the studies of Art History.

Database: online searchable collection of scholarly information and journals

Journal: publication of scholarly articles sharing research findings in a particular discipline

Smarthistory. art, history, conversation
A youtube channel with a variety of videos on different types and elements of art.
ArtCurious Podcast
The podcast ArtCurious is art history for everyone. This isn't like a lecture, droning on about archaic art terminology (like chiaroscuro or contrapposto) or the importance of linear perspective. They're interested in the juicy stuff.
Seeing Art History
A youtube channel with a videos on a variety of art pieces.

Art History News
The aim of this website is to provide a useful source for art history related news stories, such as exhibitions, research and recently discovered paintings.
How To Talk About Art History
A blog by an art historian- Ellen Oredsson- with a focus on making art history easier to understand.
Alberti's Window: An Art History Blog
This blog focuses on making Western art history accessible and interesting to all types of audiences: art historians, students, and anyone else who is curious about art. Alberti’s Window is maintained by Monica Bowen, an art historian and professor.

Google Arts & Culture
WikiArt: Visual Art Encyclopedia
WikiArt already features some 250.000 artworks by 3.000 artists, localized on 7 languages. These artworks are in museums, universities, town halls, and other civic buildings of more than 100 countries.
Art Resource
Art Resource is the world's largest fine art stock photo archive, with more than 1,000,000 searchable fine art images from the world's leading sources.
The MET - Open Access
including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a searchable database of European fine arts and architecture (8th-19th centuries), currently containing over 44.800 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.
Art Canada Institute - Online Exhibitions
national institution whose mandate is to promote the study of an inclusive multi-vocal Canadian art history to as broad an audience as possible, in both English and French, within Canada and internationally.