The Internet is full of art and sites where you can view the works of architecture, sculpture, photography and painting online, transforming your monitor into an interactive museum. The problem is that there are many works of art and, as in the real world, they are scattered in many different places, becoming difficult to find if you don't know the right sites.
Furthermore, often we find simple low resolution photos that do not really make the beauty of the work, of any type of figurative art it may be.
For this reason, some online projects were born that make it easier to search for the works, based on the artist, the artistic current, the museum where they are exhibited and the age of the work.
The computer can never replace the real visit, but it can be a way to increase your culture, discover beauties that you don't know and look for works to see online with a very high photographic quality.
1) A new site that allows you to search for works of art and that proposes itself as an online and virtual world museum is Artsy .
On the homepage the exhibition of the day is immediately presented so, every time you view this site, you can enjoy the images of a modern art exhibition or a special exhibition.
At the top is the search bar where you can write the title of a work or the name of an artist.
For example, one can search for Van Gogh to see 12 of his best paintings or search for Andy Warhol to see his photographic exhibitions.
Through the Browse button, you can browse the entire archive of images, divided into 5 categories: Art movement, Contemporary art, Artistic subject, technique, country .
For each category there is a " See More " link to expand the list.
The same thing happens when searching by filter.
Currently, around 20, 000 works are cataloged in 275 galleries and 50 different museums .
Artsy is a site developed with the most modern techniques on the web, easy to navigate and with very high resolution images on which you can zoom in to see every detail of a work.
The works are not all there but at least one for all the most famous artists of the past and contemporary ones should surely be visible and enjoyable online.
If you log in with a Twitter or Facebook account, you can then follow the updates and new additions to the galleries of your favorite artists (by pressing the Follow button).
2) Google Art Project is Google 's search engine for works of art, in which about 30, 000 high-resolution images of works from 50 museums have been cataloged.
The museums also include: Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, the Sienese Museums, the Strada Nuova Museums in Genoa, the Palazzo Vecchio Museum in Florence, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Capitoline Museums in Rome.
You can register on the site to organize your favorite works and be able to review them without repeating the search.
The site is divided into museums, artists and works but there is also the possibility of doing a free search from the field in the upper right corner.
The site is absolutely easy to navigate, ultra modern, with the possibility of seeing the works, knowing where they are and discovering the best works.
Furthermore, it is not displeasing that the site is also in Italian, facilitating the online virtual visit for those who have more difficulties with the English language.
3) ArtNet is finally the third site used to find works of art on the internet and it will no longer be necessary to look elsewhere.
It is a real search engine dedicated only to the art of all times and of all kinds, which presents results from other sites, the official ones of museums or private collections and state archives.
For each search on Emuseum.net you can browse the sites where you can discover information and works of an artist, see images and find out in which museums the works are collected.
On the left are the filters to refine the search.
In another article then, the best Virtual tours of 3D online museums, monuments and places, in Italy and in the world
