Appendix 2- Michelle Heimburger, surfer de yahoo!, was kind enough to share her favorite art sites with me for this article.

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997

Brett-

I'm not sure exactly how much information you're looking for, but here's a quick list of some of my current favorite art sites and some good indices:

The Extended Tour of the Sistine Chapel: 325 images of Michelangelo's masterpiece, from the unmistakable Creation of Adam to small decorative elements. This site was created by Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi, a non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of imformation on the art of churches, cathedrals and monasteries worldwide. http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sistine/0-Tour.html

The Rossetti Archive: includes a VRML tour of the Pre-Raphaelite artist/author's studio, plus a complete archive of his paintings, drawings, designs, poems, prose, and translations. An excellent resource, even though it uses an Excite search tool. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html

For general Art History resources, The Mother of All Art History Links Pages has probably the most interesting and comprehensive list of sites, with over 400 links, including some "time-wasters" and amusing sites, as well as scholarly ones. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~amidkiff/mother/

Of course, one of the best is The Web Museum (and its billions of mirror sites) for both textual and pictorial content. http://watt.emf.net/wm/net/

There are far too many great individual artists' pages out there to point you toward any one site, but a great place to look for incredibly talented "unknowns" is, of course, Yahoo!'s Artists categories. To see works by multiple artists, and for art combined with poetry, prose and bizarre multimedia expressions of creativity, my favorite place to get lost is the Arts/Publications/Magazines category. Some of the most exciting art is hiding on the pages of online mags you've never heard of.

And finally, a personal favorite, Guerrila Girls: a group of female artists fighting for equal representation of women and non-whites in the art world through clever and scathing posters which draw attention to often-unnotced discrimination. http://www.voyagerco.com/gg/gg.html

Let me know if you'd like more specific information on any certain area of the Arts... I personally lean toward the visual arts, but we've got terrific performing and design arts info, too, and I'd be happy to give you specifics or answer any questions. -- michelle heimburger surfer de yahoo!