Top 10 Art History Websites for Exam Success in 2025–2026

Beaux Arts Magazine has compiled a list of ten online resources to help French high school and university students prepare for their 2025–2026 art history and visual arts exams. The exam topics include "Women, Femininity, Feminism," "Paris, Capital of the Arts, First Half of the 20th Century," "An Artist in His Time: Viollet-le-Duc," and "Bas-relief in 15th-Century Florence." Experts Claire Maingon, a contemporary art history lecturer at the University of Rouen and regular Beaux Arts contributor, and Marie-Élise Ho-Van-Ba, a secondary school visual arts teacher, provide recommendations. Maingon emphasizes mastering course material with traditional index cards and using sites like "Histoire par l'image" for contextual analysis. Ho-Van-Ba praises the BnF photography site, the Centre Pompidou YouTube channel, and the series "Atelier A" on Arte. Other recommended resources include Google Arts & Culture for virtual museum tours, the INHA's Agorha portal with over 250,000 records, the GrandPalaisRmn's Panorama de l'art, the INA's "Elles@centrepompidou" fresco on women artists, and the Tate Modern's educational podcasts and glossary. The list also features Beaux Arts' own "L'Encyclo" section, the POP platform for museum collections, and the paid Artips online courses. The article notes that while many sites are free, some require subscriptions or are in English.