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The best resources for finding your favorite painters from the Medieval era, the Renaissance, the Romantic period ... on up to the 19th century:

Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine - The premier site for painters throughout cultures and history, cross-searchable by artist, medium, movement or country, links to related viewable films and videos, and a museum / exhibit list.

Web Gallery of Art Quick Index - A-Z listing leading to 3500+ images of European paintings and sculptures between the years 1200 and 1700. Commentary, artists' biographies, and guided tours also make this one of the top picks for art history on the Web.

Major Artists on the Internet - Zeroland's comprehensive A-Z guide to artists of every description with extensive selected links to further information.

Art Gallery - Christus Rex - The Vatican collection, and more.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Timeline of Art History - Europe - Beautifully designed interface to European art history via the Met's extensive holdings.

Old Master - Complete biographies of top Renaissance, Dutch and French classical painters along with illustrations, overviews of related art periods and related links, from Wikipedia.

Chinese Classical Paintings - Gallery of selected paintings from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing Dynasties as well as early 20th century works.

Asia-art.net - Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese and Korean master painting and sculpture, and more, are on view at this gateway to Asian art history.

also see -> Realism & the Renaissance

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