Library guides: Visual arts: Web resources

Online collections

Monoskop Avant-garde and Modernist Magazines
Digitisations of printed magazines from the late-19th century through to the late 1930s
Princeton University's Blue Mountain Project (Avant-Garde)
The Blue Mountain Project is a digital thematic research collection of art, music and literary periodicals published between 1848, the year of the European Revolutions, and 1923 – a functional boundary for works presumed to be in the public domain.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Timeline of 20th Century Art and New Media
Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) Online Resources
Art Through Time: A Global View
Getty Research Portal
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The Getty Research Portal™ is an online search platform providing global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields.
designinform Art:Search (Biographical information)
Free access websites containing biographical information on designers, architects, craftspeople, painters and sculptors.