Where to start with a collection like that held by the National Gallery? It's a truly daunting challenge, but fortunately the curators there have done some of the hard work already. This remarkable offering brings together 30 of their finest works, including Vermeer's "A Young Woman standing at a Virginal," Titian's "Bacchus and Ariadne," and Van Gogh's "Sunflowers." Visitors can click on each...

From film director Cao Shu comes One-Minute Art History, a mesmerizing short film that engages viewers with hundreds of artwork in less than a minute. As viewers watch the video, they are presented with a number of successive artworks that, collectively, create an animation of an individual sitting down, taking a sip of a drink, lighting a cigarette, checking a wristwatch, and standing up....

In March 2018, BBC 2 launched Civilizations, a documentary series that seeks to "[tell] the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day - for the first time on a global scale." The series, (hosted by art historian Simon Schama, classicist Mary Beard, and historian David Olusoga) was inspired by Kenneth Clark's 1969 documentary film series Civilization, which traced the history...

The motto of the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood is Ars Longa Vita Brevis or, Art is Long, Life is Short. The website is the work of art historian Stephanie Graham Pina and has been online since 2007. In 2004, Pina created a precursor to the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, lizziesiddal.com - a compilation of information about Elizabeth Siddal, who was an artist model, poet, and painter. Siddal was the model...

Pablo Picasso's mural Guernica depicts a single horrific event: the April 1937 bombing of the Basque city of Gernika by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, who were allied with nationalist Francisco Franco during Spain's Civil War. Today, the iconic painting is held by the Museo Reina in Madrid, Spain. The Reina Sofia recently published Rethinking Guernica, a powerful online exhibit about the history...

The Robert Venn Carr Jr. Collection at the University of Maine's Museum of Art is particularly strong in paintings, prints, and other 2D items. The Museum was established in 1946 and all told it contains over 6,000 items. Visitors to this site can browse around by style or by a list of artists. Each item contains information about its materials, the year of creation, and its dimensions. The style...

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The Brummer brothers, Joseph and Ernest, were art dealers with galleries in New York and Paris who collected decorative arts from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Pre-Columbian America, and the Baroque period. After Ernest's death in 1964, his widow, Ella Bache Brummer, donated The Brummer Gallery records to the Metropolitan Museum of Art which has made this digitized collection available. The...

The Courtauld Gallery's Beyond the Label presents extended information about selected works from its collection - information that would not necessarily fit on a typical exhibition label. For example, the entry for Edouard Manet's 1882 painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere includes a section entitled About this Work, which discusses the viewpoint Manet chose for the painting and the accuracy of his...

Those interested in learning about art museums behind the scenes may want to check out Art + Ideas, a podcast produced by The Getty in Los Angeles as part of The Iris, the museum's blog. In Art + Ideas, Getty president Jim Cuno interviews curators, artists, writers, and scholars in a series of wide-ranging conversations. Examples of recent topics include a curator-led audio tour of the Getty...