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  • What's the best app or website for learning about and seeing lots of museum art? It seems like every six months or so, I learn about a new website that seems to be all about showing off art, but falls short somehow. I signed up for the beta of Art.sy, but closed my account after it became super-apparent that they're just hosting pictures of works available for sale. I want a website or an app that's the equivalent of a giant art history textbook - lots and lots of works, representative of periods and otherwise, that I can browse through and train my aesthetic eye. Ideally, it'd be the sort of place where I could see (download, even?) versions of works by major and minor artists across museums. I'm not against paying, either one time or subscription, for something like this. Does anything like this exist? Art nerds, what sorts of tools do you use?

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    Check out http://www.googleartproject.com/!

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srboisvert

A friend is involved with http://artsnap.org/, which hasn't updated in a while but which has a good history of things to start with. http://www.artdaily.com/ does have posts on auctions, but it also has news on archaeological, paleontological, and museum exhibitions as well as news on the bigger modern art shows and so forth. A nice daily read. http://www.emuseum.net/ is quite great because it does search the collections of many museums at once, and their participant list is growing. If you're willing to browse through one museum at a time, check out the http://www.britishmuseum.org/collection, http://www.louvre.fr/en/moteur-de-recherche-oeuvres, the http://www.mfa.org/collections, http://art.thewalters.org/, or thehttp://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/databases.html

jetlagaddict

Also possibly of interest: the Met's http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/, which is lavishly illustrated from their own collection and has great introductory essays to themes and time periods.

jetlagaddict

http://www.artstor.org/ is "a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research." It's far from perfect or complete, but I do find it contains more images than any other database and in far higher quality.

dd42

I received a free membership to http://www.mutualart.com/ and have learned quite a lot from the site. It is global in its approach to modern art, which I appreciate.

tidecat

I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet, but http://www.wikipaintings.org/ is phenomenal.

Rhaomi

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