Art Sites
Portal & General Sites
Artist/Artworks
Search Indices & Reference Sources
Art Outside of the European
Tradition
Museum Resources
Architecture & Sculpture
Photography
Portal & General Sites
Art
History Resources on the Web
Arguably the best and most comprehensive compilation of art and art
history content on the Internet, the site provides a massive gateway to just
about everything that you need to get started, from the general to the specific.
The site includes a section on art outside of European traditions, as well as a
very informative section on research resources in art history.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Mother of
All Art and Art History Links Page
Sponsored by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan,
this is an ambitious and highly successful project resulting in very useful and
global art and art history content links -- including Research Resources, Online
Art and Image Collections, and Art Museums, just to name a few.
http:/art-design.umich.edu/mother/
Timeline
of Art History
This link from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's main page contains
interactive and self-contained hyperlinks to art across time and continents.
Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic
exploration of the history of art from around the world. It is a great site for
cross-cultural comparisons of artworks at given points in history.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm?HomePageLink=toah_l
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Artist/Artworks Search Indices
Reference Sources
CGFA: A Virtual Art Museum
WARNING: many popup and banner ads! Offers quality scanned images. Artists at
this site have been indexed, searchable by name or by nationality or time frame.
You can also simply go to the first page of any letter to get to artists
alphabetized by name. http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/
Web Gallery of Art
Web Gallery of Art contains over 11,600 digital reproductions of European
painting and sculpture created between 1150 AD and 1800 AD. Provides the user
with interlinked visuals and textual information.
http://www.wga.hu/welcome.html
Mark Harden's Artchive
WARNING: many popup and banner ads! A good site for quick look-up of well-known
artists, styles, and specific works of art with accompanying commentary and
textual information.
http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm
Artcyclopedia.com
A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites,
image archives, and other online resources. Indexes 1800 art sites, and offers
over 60,000 links to an estimated 150,000 artworks by 8,100 renowned artists.
http://artcyclopedia.com
Women Artists in History
http://www.wendy.com/women/artists.html
Women Artists, Self-Portraits & Representations of Womanhood from the Medieval
Period to the Present
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women/womenart.html
ART LEX Art Dictionary
This site defines more than 3,500 terms used in general visual culture (many
germane to art history), with hyperlinks to supporting images, pronunciation
notes, quotations, and cross-references.
http://www.artlex.com/
Words of
Art provides a glossary of theory and criticism for the visual arts.
http://www.arts.ouc.bc.ca/fina/glossary/gloshome.htm
Researching Art History on the
Internet
Professor Chris Witcombe's informative guide is a prerequisite to doing any type
of art history research on the Internet.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/websearch/
artnet.com
This site advertises itself as the place to buy, sell and research fine art
online. Its Gallery Network involves over 1,000 galleries in 250 international
cities, and more than 90,000 works by over 18,000 artists from around the globe.
The Network serves dealers and art buyers alike by providing a survey of the
market and its pricing trends, as well as the means to communicate instantly,
inexpensively and globally. Other key services include artnet Magazine, the
insider's guide to the art market with daily news, reviews, and features by
renowned writers in the art community and the Price Database. artnet’s Price
Database is the most comprehensive color illustrated archive of fine art auction
results worldwide. Representing auction results from over 500 international
auction houses since 1985, the Price Database covers more than 2.6 million
artworks by over 180,000 artists, ranging from Old Masters to Contemporary Art.
http://www.artnet.com
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Art Outside of the European
Tradition
National Museum of African Art
The Smithsonian's collection embraces the diverse artistic expressions found
throughout Africa, from ancient to contemporary times. Painting, printmaking,
sculpture, and other media are well represented, especially through living
artists whose works address global and local art trends and transform classic
artistic traditions into modern idioms. The search features for African Art are
neatly divided into "Diversity," "Uses," and "Imagery," including a "Current
Tours" section. http://www.nmafa.si.edu/
Freer Gallery of Art
and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Both galleries house a renowned collection of art from China, Japan, Korea,
South and Southeast Asia, and the Near East, including artwork that dates back
as far as the fifteenth century. In addition to fine collections of digital
images, the site's online exhibitions and gallery guides are outstanding, well
written, and updated frequently.
http://www.asia.si.edu/
African Art
Overview of Ancestral Bushman
Rock Art and Traditional and Contemporary African Art with photos and maps.
http://www.lonker.net/art_african_1.htm
Africa-Related Links
The African Art, Music &
Cultural Resources section of the University of Wisconsin-Madison African
Studies Program links page.
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/links.html#art
Africa South of the Sahara:
Selected Internet Resources
A searchable list of links, also
arranged by subject and countries/regions. Prepared by Karen Fung for the
Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association, USA, and housed at
Standford University Library. Check out the
Art
section.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html
Art and Life in Africa Online
Art and Life in Africa Online
contains information about African Art and Culture. Some of the material on
this site hasbeen adapted from similar material developed for the
Art and Life in
Africa CD-ROM being produced at The University of Iowa. Additionally, some
material is specific to this site (and not found on the CD), as noted below.
Links to further resources on the web have been added where appropriate.
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Part of the New York Public Library, the Schomburg is a national
research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to
resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent
throughout the world. Site includes online exhibitions and digital
collections.
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Chicano/Latino Network Virtual Museum
CLNET's list of web sites, including sections on Latino art, music,
dance, theater & film, and pictorial essays. Produced by the
Chicano/LatinoNet at the University of California.
http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/MUSEUM.HTML
Art of China
From Purdue university, includes images (without source info) and
links. Includes
The Great Wall, an illustrated tour mainly taken from the book "Beijing:
Glimpses of History" published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China.
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html
Asian Arts
An online journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia.
Includes exhibitions, associations, articles, and images from commercial
galleries.
http://www.webart.com/asianart/index.html
Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia in Modern History
Provides information on the recent history of Cambodia. Includes a
Photo Gallery and a section on Khmer art.
http://members.aol.com/cambodia/
China the Beautiful
The homepage for 5,000 years of Chinese Art and Literature - a tiny
bit of it anyway. Includes the
China Room, with
examples of calligraphy from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties,
a section on Paintings & Graphic Arts, Poetry, and Arts, in addition to many
related links. Also has the Chinese Reading Room (special software
required).
http://www.chinapage.com/china.html
Fakir Khana Family Museum, Pakistan
Faqir Khana owns one the largest private antiques collection in South
East Asia. This collection has been passied to several generations and
boasts around 30,000 antique pieces from British, Sikh & Mughal era. For the
first time in Pakistan, the Fakir Khana Family has taken up the challenge to
bring it up as the first e-museum not only in Pakistan but also in the whole
of South East Asia.
http://www.fakirkhana.com/
Hmong Textiles
From the Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California,
Irvine Library. The cloths presented come from two sources: Flower Cloth of
the Hmong, Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1985, and Joan
Randall, ed., Art of the Hmong-Americans, Davis, CA: C.N. Gorman Museum (UC
Davis), 1985.
http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/hmong.html
Kyoto National Museum
Provides an online image database with over 10,000 images of over
3,200 objects or sets of objects from the museum collection, searchable by
keyword or category.
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/
Scenery Pictures of China (CND InfoBase)
Tourist shots divided into three series. The first, "The Land of
Beauty," includes the "top ten scenic sites." The second series is of
"Natural Landscapes," and the third is "Ancient Buildings." Also includes
links to other sites with pictures of China, including a lot of good modern
Hangzhou scenes and Time Magazine's "A Day in the Life of China."
http://www.cnd.org/Scenery/index.html
ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East
Available on the Internet
A project of The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago.
Includes online journals, library catalogs, museum collections, and
directories, in addition to subject and regional indexes. An Associate Site
of the Argos search engine.
http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML
Ankaboot
An Iranian web guide with an image gallery, news, recipes, jokes, and
links grouped by subject (including Arts & Humanities).
http://www.ankaboot.com/
Artserve
Part of an extensive collection of images from Australia National
University. Includes architecture images, indexed alphabetically from Egypt
to Syria. More images available for a fee.
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/
Digitorium at the University of Chicago Library
Provides access to scholarly image resources available at the
University. Includes the Middle East Photograph Archive and The Oriental
Institute Photographic Archive.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/Digitorium/images.html
Islamic Architecture in Isfahan
Isfahan is one of ten cities designated by UNESCO as a universal
heritage. It contains a wide range of Islamic Architectural styles ranging
from the 11th century (C.E.) to the 19th. This archive contains photographs
and descriptions of some of the most interesting and unusual ones. A fun and
informative site that includes a helpful section on Fundamental Concepts of
Islamic and Iranian architecture, a tourist shop where you can get a map of
the city and information on Iran from the CIA (always found in real tourist
shops).
http://isfahan.anglia.ac.uk:8200/
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Museum Resources
Directory
of Virtual Museums is searchable by keyword &/or country.
http://www.icom.org/vlmp/
Also try the portal site
museumspot.com
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York city (www.metmuseum.org)
National Gallery of
Art
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) has one of the very best museum Web sites
anywhere and sets the standard for other major museums around the world.
Text and/or data on all of the more than 106,000 objects in the gallery's
collection can be found using various search capabilities, including images
of more than 5,300 of these objects. One can also choose an online tour by
school or medium and explore the National Gallery's collections of painting,
sculpture, decorative arts, and graphic arts. Many guides are available as
PDF (Portable Document Format) files and can be downloaded in English,
French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Of particular note are the "In-depth
Study Tours," an online exploration of a selected artist, a specific work of
art, or a theme treated in depth with specially designed electronic
features. In addition, the "Virtual Exhibition Tours" take advantage of
computer-based technology to allow the viewer to "walk" through these
QuickTime VR tours of NGA exhibitions. One can select specific works of art
for larger image views, close-up details, streaming audio commentary, and
information about the object. Lastly, the National Gallery's Education,
Teacher Resources, and Lending Services programs are the best of their kind.
http://www.nga.gov/
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
This site contains the Thinker ImageBase, a searchable image and text database
of more than 110,000 objects. Their innovative storage system, coupled with
breakthrough software, lets you see details of the art at high magnification.
http://www.thinker.org/
The
Art Institute of Chicago
Cincinnati
Art Museum
Dallas
Museum of Art
Indianapolis
Museum of Art
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan
Museum of Art
Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston
National
Gallery of Art
Seattle
Art Museum
Utah
Museum of Fine Arts
The
Walters Art Gallery
Tate Britain and Tate Modern (London)
Victoria & Albert Museum (Decorative Arts)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA
National Gallery, London, England
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
State Hermitage
Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, Austria
Staatliche Museen, Berlin,
Germany
Vatican Museums,
Vatican City, Italy
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
National Museum, Kyoto, Japan
American
Memory
From
the Library of Congress, this is a rich gateway to exhibits and
digitized primary source and archival materials related to American
culture and history. The site
offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100
historical collections. Includes texts, motion
pictures, sound recordings, and photographs. Provides sections on
African-American perspectives, the Civil War, Continental Congress
documents, presidential portraits, vaudeville and popular
entertainment, and women's suffrage. Detailed multimedia presentations
on significant historical events provide access to the highlights of
the collections at the Library of Congress. The
Learning Page is
especially for teachers and features activities, tips, tricks, lesson
plans and more on more than 100 American Memory collections.
http://memory.loc.gov/
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Architecture and Sculpture
Art Images for College
Teaching
AICT is a free-to-use image resource for the educational community. The content
and images are particularly strong on architecture and sculpture. The works
documented through the images in this Web site have been indexed according to
their inclusion in a number of widely used undergraduate art history survey
textbooks. Click on the "Textbook Concordance" section to get additional
information.
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html
Digital Imaging
Project
This site claims to contain more than 11,000 art historical images of
architecture and sculpture from prehistoric to postmodern times. Provides good
alternate and multiple views of works, along with solid annotations that
accompany images. Three separate indices allow you to search by artists and
architects, chronology, or historical sites.
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index.html
The Great
Buildings Collection
This gateway to architecture around the world boasts thousands of buildings and
hundreds of architects. Searches will yield photographic images, architectural
drawings, commentaries, bibliography, Web links, and 3-D models. The latter
requires a download of "Design Workshop Lite," the official 3-D viewing software
for this site, free for both Windows and Power Macintosh. The software allows
one to experience, when available, building models in 3-D, with walkthroughs,
pre-set architectural views, and plan and elevation viewing.
http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
Digital
Archive of American Architecture covers
17th-20th century houses, churches, public buildings, commercial
buildings, styles & architects.
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/contents.html
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Photography
Masters of
Photography
One can easily browse through the list of artists here, read the accompanying
articles and resources, and view the photographs. Those not overly familiar with
many of the photographers will find the "Photographer Summaries" helpful in
browsing the site.
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/index.html
A History of
Photography
In addition to concise information on many of the most important photographers,
this site contains information on some of the most significant processes used
during the early days of photography. The project is confined to the first 80
years or so of photography.
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/index.html
The American Museum of Photography
has both a permanent virtual collection and fascinating special exhibits.
Be sure to click on photographs for more information.
http://www.photographymuseum.com
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