The Web Museum with its vast art collection is the best spot to start your Virtual art tour. Visit the world's artists and galleries all over North and South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Read the lives of artist's. Browse through a glossary of painting styles from Gothic to Pop. Treat yourself to a virtual tour of Paris including the Louvre, the Champs-Elysees and the Montmarte.

Find artists' works and life stories in the Web Museum Artists' Index. Artists here range from the early Renaissance Master Sandro Botticelli, to the American abstract impressionist Jackson Pollock.

I found the pages on Peter Paul Ruebens a Flemish Renaissance artist, Rembrant the Dutch Master, Mary Casset -- an American who painted in the French Impressionist style, and Paul Klee, the playful and fascinating modern creator.

The Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation has donated 10,000 art slides from Egypt, China, Japan, India and Europe to World Art Treasures. Take a guided tour of a Javanese stupa with Jacques- Edouard Berger.

Feast your eyes on full screen pictures of Italian Renaissance water fountains, or ancient Egyptian figurines or temples in Burma. Notes follow every work.

Ever wanted to take a course in Western World Art? Here you can learn through a nine-part study series. Start with a guide to Greek and Roman mythology.

Travel through the Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionist and Contemporary Ages. You can also visit online versions of current Art Gallery shows such as "Gauguin and the Pont-Aven" and "Picasso and Portraiture."

I picked these two artists' sites because I liked the presentation of their art.

Georgia O'Keefe was an American woman artist who lived all over the United States, but did her best- known work in the Southwest. Her life history and work -- from her large flowers to the stark death images of the desert -- are here with easy to understand text. I found the photographs of the artist from 1915 to 1982 revealed much about the artist's life and works.

If merely looking at art is not enough for you, consider buying. The Art Mart is an online commercial art gallery, selling mostly prints of modern artists. You can buy the works of Bateman, Chagall, Dali, Klee, Lichenstien, Toulous- Lautrec, Warhol and Wyeth. Prices range from $500 to $75,000.

Whether you are a serious student of art or an art lover, or just someone who knows what they like, the cyber art world is the next best thing to being there!