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Artcyclopedia describes itself as "the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet."
Artcyclopedia describes itself as "the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet. ... We have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. We have started out by covering the biggest and best sites around, and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours. Update September/2004: We have now indexed 1800 art sites, and offer over 60,000 links to an estimated 150,000 artworks by 8,100 renowned artists. The Artcyclopedia's custom search engine is already the fastest way to search the Net for information about fine artists. Period. There are scads of artists with home pages on the Web, many of whom are extremely talented. But we can't list every site, and we really don't want to set ourselves up as arbiters of who produces "quality" art and who doesn't - making such a judgment is impossible over the Internet in any case. We feel that fairest approach is to rely on the worldwide network of museum professionals to make that call. So our general policy is, if an artist is in an arts museum collection, then he or she is qualified to be listed in our database. ... We only provide references to sites on the World Wide Web where artists' works can be viewed online. ... The vast majority of the fine artists in our database specialize in painting and sculpture. We do include other artistic media where possible."
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