This site is a treasure trove of beautiful and meaningful art work on the internet. Mister Yoder has lovingly crafted a number of galleries devoted to such luminaries as William Bouguereau, Lord Leighton, and John William Godward; if I were to list every artist he covers, easily half of this screen would be filled with a roll call of brilliance.
   Brian Yoder�s galleries have served as an immense source of aesthetic pleasure for thousands across the internet, as well as educating all of us about those painters who for many years had been unjustly reviled, and their tradition ridiculed.

Ms. Jackson�s site is unparelleled in its variety and sheer profundity. The number of artists she covers is staggering, and ranges from painters in the Gothic period, to a sculptor in the Baroque, right up to the present day. On the way she manages to cover Bouguereau, Leighton, Waterhouse, Alma-Tadema and many more. Most of the great painters are given seperate pages of their own with a brief biography, while dozens of less-well-known figures are represented quite amply. If you love art, then treat yourself to this site.

Art is dead. The light of beauty has been extinguished from the world ... or has it? A visit to the Official Nelson Shanks� Website, will, I think, convince you that there are still hard-working men and women around the world trying to keep Art alive.
   Of the many artists working in the Classical tradition, Mister Shanks stands out as something special. To begin with, he is one of the very few painters alive today whose technique can rival that of William Bouguereau. This phenomenal technique has been put to the service of a number of famous portraits, including a favourite one of (and belonging to) Princess Diana. Mister Shanks, however, is more than a portraitist�he also paints still-lifes, landscapes and mythological pictures.

Mister Gerald King is another of those living painters dedicated to preserving beauty and sanity in contemporary art. Gerald also runs his own atelier (a French word which essentially means a small class devoted to the teaching of artistic technique and aesthetic principles) and has produced a lot of extraordinary works well worth your attention. Gerald has recently updated his page to an even more attractive layout.

Richard R. Gandy, besides being a contemporary painter in the figurative realist tradition, hosts a splended internet art gallery devoted to various little known greats of twentieth century painting. Here you will find such men as Richard Lack (the founder of the American Society for Classical Realism) and William McGreggor Paxton, a marvellous painter from the early decades of this century who can trace his artistic heritage back to Jean-L�on G�r�me, and through him to J.L. David.
   Mister Gandy�s site is one of the most attractive I have yet encountered and combines a fine sense of web design with an unerring judgement of artistic quality. You will also find more than just a collection of paintings�Richard Gandy has illuminated his Gallery with a number of insightful observations about art and those men and women who make it.

This is the page of one of the most inventive sculptors from the twentieth century. Jeffrey, unlike so many other great artists, is still alive and kicking in the United States of America. His skills include painting, web-page design (I think you will agree once you see his page) and, of course, sculpture�an area of which he is a consummate master.
   He is also a dear friend and one of the nicest people I have had the pleasure of corresponding with; a man who has no time for the Mobius strips of intellectual dog-chasing so common in any discussion about the nature of art�instead, he brings a life-time�s experience of artistic creation to his observations.
   If you�ve ever wanted to meet one of those men who keep the quality and professionalism in art, a visit to Jeffrey Jones� home page will be an immemorial delight.

Hosted by the indefatigable Julia Kerr, this enormous site is dedicated to the many artists who comprised the Pre-Raphaelite movement in the nineteenth century. Ms Kerr covers all of the important painters, as well as a dozen or more I had not even heard about�or if so, only dimly. Her page is also a paragon of web-design, beautifully and intelligently constructed to allow maximum ease of navigation. Like the archives of Brian Yoder and Richard R. Gandy, Julia is not simply satisfied with giving you a bundle of magnificent art-works�she has also taken the time to detail the lives of many of the artists exhibited. And if that�s not enough for you, she also has a number of links to sites where you can order posters of your favourite paintings, as well as a number of special sections dedicated to Pre-Raphaelite themes.
   This has to be one of the pre-eminent Pre-Raphaelite pages on the Internet.

This landmark archive is surely the epitome of all web-based sculpture galleries everywhere. 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture, also known as THAIS, hosts the works of many famous and obscure Italian sculptors, from the Gothic period right up to the present day. You can browse their collection by era (Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern) or wander through the list of memorable artists, one by one�or, if you so fancy, single out your favourite sculptors and delight in their online collection.
   THAIS� collection of Michelangelo is eminently respectable, but the section which deserves most praise is, I hazard to wager, their shrine to the greatest sculptor of the Baroque, Gian Lorenzo Bernini. THAIS� gallery of Bernini works still remains the best and most consistent collection of works of this mighty artist on the internet.    If you are a connoissieur of the �plastic arts�, or just an admirer of the occassional statue, you will do no wrong by visiting this archive. Do not be deterred by the fact that it is in Italian�their presentation of all these images is so skillfully achieved that one hardly notices the language barrier.