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  • Oxford Art Online - is today’s foremost scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes access to Grove Art Online, full text of The Dictionary of Art, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopaedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. Oxford Art Online is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all research into the history fo the visual arts, providing extensive image links and sophisticated search options. (Access to this database from home will require your library card number)
  • Aboriginal Fine Arts Gallery on-line gallery of Aboriginal art
  • Art Gallery of NSW 
  • Artcyclopedia a great index to where paintings, sculpture and other works of art can be viewed online
  • Australian Museums & Galleries Online on latest exhibitions and collections “Search and discover” provides a list of information leaflets suitable for school projects
  • British Museum (London) 
  • Louvre (France) here you can find a virtual tour of the Louvre, information on collections and history
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) 
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
  • National Gallery of Australia include more than 100,000 works of art across Australian, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander art, Asian art and International art
  • Research guide from the State Library of NSW encompassing the creation of visual objects as an expression of skill or imagination. Aspects include painting, sculpture, ceramics, jewellery, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, the lives of artists, art theory and information on material and technical processes
  • Visual Arts research on the Internet from the Australian National University