Contains articles on artists, movements, and times periods that were central to Western art.​

A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Includes maps, time lines, thematic essays, and an index.

Smarthistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic supplement for the traditional art history text.

The Cartoonists of Color database was created and is currently maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi as a way to spotlight marginalized comics creators.

An illustrated compendium of over 11,000 comic artists from around the world. Search for your favorite artists, books, strips and characters, or see the new additions.

Created and are maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi as a way to spotlight marginalized comics creators.

The Queer Cartoonists database was created and is currently maintained by cartoonist MariNaomi as a way to spotlight marginalized comics creators.

Women Who Draw is an open directory of professional illustrators, artists and cartoonists, emphasizing female illustrators of color, LBTQ+, and other minority groups.

The most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period.

Smithsonian Institution's collection of "documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America".

The Getty provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007. For material published after 2007 see the International Bibliography of Art (IBA).

Highlights the lives of black craftspeople and the objects they produced. The first and second phases of this project focus on Black craftspeople living and laboring in the eighteenth-century South Carolina Lowcountry and mid-nineteenth century Tennessee.

Based in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, this site fosters and circulates research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada in the period prior to 1967.

Explore over 8,000 Documents of 20th and 21st⁠-⁠century art in Latin America, the Caribbean, and among US Latino communities

A joint program of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies and the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.

Offers impartial and authoritative information on authenticity, ownership, theft, and other artistic, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects.

Focused on collecting publications in all formats that document contemporary art and artists of Latin America and the Caribbean.

An experimental interface to a collection of biographical data describing photographers, studios, manufacturers, and others involved in the production of photographic images.

Features silent-era producers, directors, co-directors, scenario writers, scenario editors, camera operators, title writers, editors, & costume designers.