Art/Architecture: Art History Internet Sites

This page gives a list of links broken down by (Western) art historical time period.

General Art History Sites

• ArtServe. 150,000 images from many times and places maintained by the Australian National University .
• Art History Research Centre. Includes search engines, newsgroups, mailing lists, catalogs, indexes, online art collections, and tips on using the Internet for research in Art History.
• ArtLex: dictionary of visual art.
• Gateway to Art History. Maintainted by Chris Witcombe, art history professor at Sweet Briar College, Virginia, this site has many links arranged according to the chapters of Gardner's Art Through the Ages.
• Mother of all art history links. Affiliated with the University of Michigan.
• THAIS--1200 Years of Italian Sculpture. Images of Italian sculpture from medieval through modern periods.
• Voice of the Shuttle Art History Page. A renowned mega-web site on the Humanities from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
• WebMuseum, Paris. The Famous Paintings collections can be searched by artist or style.
• World Art Treasures. This Web site serves a dual function of art history source and memorial to Jacques-Edouard Berger, former curator of the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausane, France, lecturer, and writer. Images from his collection of 125,000 slides are combined with text from his lectures (some only in French) grouped around specific themes.

Prehistoric Art

• Vallon Pont-d'Arc Cave Discovery. Site maintained by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

Classical Art

• The Ancient Greek World. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's virtual recreation of one of its exhibits.
• Egyptology Resources. The Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge assisted in putting together this page of starting points for Egyptologists.
• Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Links to Greek museums and archaeological sites.
• Perseus. Tufts University project to provide images of ancient art and access to classical texts.
• Pompeii Forum Project. Interdisciplinary research project on Pompeii from the University of Virginia.
• Romarch: Roman Art and Archaeology. Currently hosted by DePauw University.
• WebAcropol. A virtual tour of the Acropolis.

Medieval Art

• Amiens Cathedral. Produced by Columbia University, the site contains images (drawings, exterior and interior photographs, QuickTime movies, sculpture), texts, and a discussion group relating to this Gothic cathedral. Portions of the site are under construction.
• Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet. Developed by Paul Halsall, professor of history at the University of North Florida, this site provides links to texts, images, articles, conference proceedings, and more.
• DScriptorium. A site devoted to collecting and distributing images of medieval manuscripts for scholarly use.
• Images of Medieval Art and Architecture. Developed by Alison Stones, art history faculty member of the University of Pittsburgh.
• The Labyrinth. General resources in medieval studies, including art, from Georgetown University.
• Monastic Matrix:A Scholarly Resource for the Study of Women's Religious Communities from 400-1600 CE. Contains an image library of architecture, art objects, site plans, etc.
• therosewindow.com. Developed by Painton Cowen, author of books on rose windows. Contains 600 images with a goal of reaching 1000 examples of windows from around the world.
• Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc du Berry. Background text and scanned images from the University of Chicago.

Renaissance Art

• The WebMuseum, Paris has a lot of images, both for the Italian and Northern Renaissance. Click on "Famous Paintings" for a subject list.
• The Sistine Chapel Restorations from the Vatican.
• Digital Collections at the University of Virginia. Images of Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
• Digital Michelangelo Project. A project in the early stages at Stanford University to produce three-dimensional images and analysis of works by Michelangelo Buonarroti.
• Michelangelo Buonarroti Images at THAIS.
• Italian Painting of the 15th and 16th centuries, and Northern European Painting at the National Gallery of Art.

Baroque/Roccoco/Eighteenth-Century Art

• Paintings of Vermeer. Contains a map showing locations of Vermeer paintings, images of Vermeer paintings, and links to other Vermeer sites on the Web.
• William Blake Archive. An international public resource, sponsored by the Library of Congress, of Blake's illuminated texts. Contains at least one copy of all nineteen of Blake's illuminated works as well as bibliographies and reference materials.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art

• Art Nouveau World Wide.
• Coleccion Cisneros.org. A project of Fundacion Cisneros in Venezuela, this is a useful site for researching modern Latin American art. In English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
• The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This growing archive contains some of Rossetti's pictures and texts and plans to have much more.
• The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874. Partial recreation of the 1874 Impressionist exhibition in Paris, including images and contemporary reviews.
• International Dada Archive at the University of Iowa. Provides information on the resources of the International Dada Archive. There are bibliographies, images of Dadaist books and publications and links to information about individual artists and writers.
• International archive of women in architecture. Collects documents on the history of women's involvement with architecture, mostly pre-1950.
• Fondation Le Corbusier. This site covers the life and work of this architect.
• Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide. A new peer-reviewed electronic journal on nineteenth-century art and visual culture.
• On-Line Picasso Project. A project of Dr. Enrique Mallen, Texas A & M University, this site provides biographical information about Picasso and images of artwork by year.
• Piet Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings. Exhibit at the Harvard University Art Museums of seventeen Mondrian paintings he began in Europe and finished in New York. Site needs Shockwave, which you can download from the exhibit.
• Victorian Web. Brown University's Victorian Studies page includes the visual arts.