Art History Resources
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Provides a survey of art history from ancient times to the present day divided by period with separate links to research resources, an extensive list of museums and galleries by country, online journals, exhibits, and university art departments. Time periods are divided into countries, cultures, and styles. Noted individual artists are also included.

Yahoo!’s Art History Periods and Movements
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Art_History/Periods_and_Movements/
Yahoo! has collected sites related to several modern schools of art, including Art Deco, Abstract Expressionism, Post-Impressionism and Pop Art.  A good place to start.

Mark Harden's Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/

Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
This is a fine art search engine.

ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway
http://adam.ac.uk/index.html

BloomsburyMagazine.com
http://www.BloomsburyMagazine.com/ARC/Arc_home.asp
Use Bloomsbury free on-line reference book---The Guide to Art.  Click on Browse by title and select Guide to Art.

ArtMuseum
http://www.artmuseum.net/

NM’s Creative Impulse
http://history.evansville.net/
The Artist's view of World History and Western Civilization
This is a good annotated and rated directory of Internet resources for the study of history. The sections include Prehistory; Mesopotamia; Egypt; India; China; Greece; Rome; Byzantine; Medieval; Renaissance; Exploration; Baroque; Age of Enlightenment; Revolutions; Age of Industry; and Modern. Maintained by Nancy B. Mautz, a high school history teacher.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
http://www.moma.org/
The Museum of Modern Art’s site is a comprehensive resource for all current and archived information on MoMA.  There is coverage of its DADABASE Catalog, Periodicals, Art Research Links and Art Libraries.  If one is looking for a type of picture, artist or school of art this is a good place to start.

World Wide Arts Resources
http://wwar.com/
The World Wide Arts Resources site is a comprehensive registry of visual arts information world-wide on the Web. The 4000 resources have been compiled over the last year and can be searched by keyword. Categories include museums, performing arts, artists, antiques, art resources, and publications. Commercial, government, and academic sites are also offered.

The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art (AAA)
http://archivesofamericanart.si.edu/start.htm
The AAA provides researchers with access to the largest collection of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States. The collection consists of the papers of artists, dealers, critics, art historians, curators, administrators and the records of art dealers, museums, and other art-related businesses, institutions, and organizations. A very interesting area is the Oral History tapes and transcripts created for the Archives of American Art's Oral History Program. An increasing number are being made available directly online. AAA's Quick Reference to Oral History Interviews provides a listing of AAA's transcribed and unrestricted interviews.

National Museum of American Art Reference Desk
http://www.nmaa.si.edu/
Can’t find the answer to an American Art question?  Art information specialists at the National Museum of American Art, using print electronic resources, will help you get started. Generally, you will receive an e-mail response within 5 working days (depending upon the question); if you have asked a specific question you will get a brief factual answer and if your query was broadly described, you will be directed sources that will help you with your research. Click on Ask Joan of Art.

National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/
National Gallery of Art offers virtual tours through selected works in 44 of its collections, including painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper. Each work may be accompanied by descriptive information, links to full screen images, an exhibition history of the work, and its provenance. NGA also provides a searchable index of data on over 100,000 objects in its collections, with images of over 3,000 of them.

WebMuseum
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/
A good first stop on any art lover's online art tour, this site offers online exhibitions. The Famous Paintings exhibition includes an artist index, glossary, and themes index.

Art Historians' Guide to the Movies
http://personal1.stthomas.edu/cdeliason/ahgttm.htm
This is a guide to famous works of art and architecture found in movies. It is designed to assist teachers to illustrate art history using movies. The citations organized by time period including Twentieth-Century, and non-Western Art, as well as modern architecture. Each citation includes brief comments describing the pieces of art and a link to the Internet Movie Database. This guide grows weekly with submissions from art historians around the world. This is not a searchable site.

ArtLex
http://www.artlex.com/
Art dictionary with over 2,400 terms relating to all aspects of the visual arts, intended to be used by anyone interested or involved in the arts. The site also has Links to art vocabulary to other Web sites and it provides images of works of art and quotations.

Carol Gerten's Fine Art
http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/index.html
Major archive of paintings and drawings by European and American artists, listed alphabetically, by nationality, and by period can be found here. Includes a brief biography with numerous images for selected artists, others being represented by a few examples. Because of the impressive number of artists and artworks covered in this site, it is an excellent resource for paintings and drawings.

Art on the Web 19th and 20th Century Art Links
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/links/art_19th20th.html
This site from Boston College is created and maintained by Prof. Jeffery Howe of the Fine Arts department.  Listed here are links to different 20 century schools of art and artists.   Included are some of the sites listed above.  Many links originally provided by Bapst Art Library staff.

About.com's Art History 
http://arthistory.about.com
A collection of links to artists, museums, galleries, paintings, sculptures and more.

Museo Picasso Virtual  (Virtual Picasso Museum)
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso/
This site, provided by Enrique Mallen, Professor of Modern and Classical Languages at Texas A&M University, has almost everything you would want to see of Picasso’ work without much description. There is a briefly annotated chronology of the great painter's life, a chronology of his works, studies of the artist and specific works (in several languages), and an enormous bibliography.    It is In the Halls, arranged chronologically and unadorned by anything but title and year, that the art resides.  The amount of material available is astonishing.

Diego Rivera Virtual Museum
http://www.diegorivera.com/index.html
Available in both Spanish and English versions, this elegant and rich Website highlights the life of noted Mexican muralist and activist Diego Rivera. You can learn about his life, view many artworks, tour a Live3D gallery, and explore his writing.

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Oral Presentation Skills
http://bio.com/hr/search/f-oral.html
This is written for technical workers, but much of this applies to any speaker.

Virtual Presentation
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms2/vpa/vpa.htm
The Virtual Presentation Assistant is an online tutorial for improving your public speaking skills. Topics include selecting and researching your topic, analyzing your audience, supporting your points, using visual aids, public speaking Web links, and more.