Thematic Art
See Also: Art, Visual Art, Periods and Movements
Artists
Portfolios with biographies, image galleries, and links. Browse by theme, region, medium, or style.
Fine Art Prints and Posters
Prints and posters for every room with custom mounting and framing options. Browse by artist, subject, style, or search.
Thematic Essays
Essays from The Metropolitan Museum of Art focusing on specific themes in art history such as periods and movements, archaeology, empires and civilizations, recurring concepts, and artistic mediums.
The British Museum: Themes
Explore the British Museum collection through various themes including animals, money, time, and writing.
World Myths and Legends in Art
Site created by the Minneapolis Institute of Art explores art by theme including creation myths, god myths, hero myths, religious practices, and myths concerning animals and beasts.
Painting the Weather
Collection of paintings showing how different artists represent weather in art.
Museum of Bad Art
Museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Online collection of over 550,000 digitized images from the collections of The New York Public Library, includes vintage posters and ephemera, maps, illuminated manuscripts and more.
PostSecret
A collection of secrets anonymously revealed through hand decorated postcards.
Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride
The history of the art collection of the White House, view selected works online.
Museum of Fred
Features thrift store paintings from the collection of Fred Beshid.
Covers
A blog dedicated to the appreciation of brilliant book cover design.
Artful Jesters
A site is dedicated to artists who create art charged with mischievous wit, whimsy, satire and comic energy.
A Century of Grand Canyon Art
A collection of artists who have interpreted the Grand Canyon through their works of art, includes images from 1906 to 1999.