18th century landscape paintings of Venice and Rome considered among the finest masterpieces of Italian artists Canaletto, Panini, Ricci and others.

Biography and image archive, altarpieces, fresco cycle, paintings of the Madonna, and portraits.

One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits daily. Biographies and main works of many famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions. Historical comments.

Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts (painting, sculpture) of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), containing over 17.100 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours, free postcard service are available.

OCAIW, available in English, Italian and Portuguese. It's a catalogue of links to more than 22,000 museums and virtual galleries online art works, about the great artists in painting, sculpture, architecture and photography. The works are listed in alphabetical order. There's also an alphabetical index of all artists in the database. For each artist the site presents biographies, news, exhibitions and other important information.

A collection of works mentioned by Giorgio Vasari in The Lives of the Artists, with the related text

Biography from Vasari's "The Lives of the Artists".

A survey of American painting, focusing on the work of Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and John Singer Sargent.

Venetian painter whose real name was Scarpazza, b. at Venice about 1455; d. in the same city between 1523 and 1526

Profile of this German painter, printmaker, draughtsman and art theorist. Features a gallery of high-resolution images of some representative paintings and prints, with annotations.