Looking for good art: web resources and image databases

With an unimaginable wealth of art digitally accessible and preserved for us and future generations by art history, institutions outside the U.S., the international Web of the Western art world is truly one of the most remarkable achievements of our digital age. Some of the greatest art museums beyond the U.S. offer continuous virtual exhibits and, more importantly for the virtual traveler, excellent visual databases of their art treasures. Over the past decade the European Union, which expanded its member states to 25 in June 2004, has funded numerous digital culture research and ...