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The Mother of all Art History Links Pages: They're not kidding. This award-winning site contains a very extensive but selective list of carefully annotated links. These include resources in world religions, world cultures, and several academic disciplines as well as a directories of art departments, image archives, online art, and art museums all over the world. http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
Art History Resources on the Web: An extensive hierarchical directory to online materials relating to art, and art history. The main directory is split into nine broad time/topical categories. Links to museums and galleries worldwide, as well as some information on prints and photography are provided. http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
National Gallery of Art: This site includes images and information about a number of the paintings in the gallery collection. On the home page, choose the option Online Tours and you will then have a choice of looking at some of the rooms in the permanent collections (subdivided by nationality and century), with images and information on a number of paintings. You also have the option of virtual tours of recent exhibitions (which can be 3D with the proper download of software, but can also be viewed in two dimensions with no changes) or wonderful in-depth studies of 10 paintings in the permanent collections, e.g. Copley’s Brook Watson and the Shark. These in-depth studies offer background about the subject of the paintings, the artists, commentary on the composition, and further resources.
http://www.nga.gov/
WebMuseum, Louvre: This site has a number of images and thumbnail descriptions of paintings housed in the Louvre. It is valuable for the number of images (which can be enlarged by clicking on them), but not the quality or detail of the descriptions of artists. There are special exhibits which can offer more detail, such as the current exhibit on Cezanne which includes 100 images of his paintings and some detailed descriptions of them. You also have the option on the homepage of taking a virtual tour of Paris, with brief descriptions of major sites. This tour may be useful, but the information about Paris is not very complex or extensive.
http://metalab.unc.edu/louvre/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: This is a fantastic online resource, with 3500 images
available in gallery tours, recent/past exhibits, and director's tours. One of the most
amazing resources is the choice to "curate" your own private online gallery of Met
images (use "My Met Gallery" option) after registering on the site (a free service): http://www.netmuseum.org/home.asp
The Chicago Art Institute: A good set of online images (American art, Impressionist art) available from the museum's permanent collections and past/present exhibits. The search
function (use for artist) is perhaps more useful than the slow-to-load gallery tours, though: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/index.html
Eighteenth-Century Art: This is the art section of a larger eighteenth-century site. There are links, by category, to galleries with
18th-century work online, individual artists like Blake, Hogarth, and Goya, architecture, and costume sites:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/art.html
Victorian Visual Arts: This is the visual arts section of the larger Victorian Web (at Brown University). There are wonderful image and text
resources here, divided into the large categories of Painting, Sculpture, Design, Art criticism, Illustration, and Architecture:
http://www.thecore.nus.edu.sg/landow/victorian/art/artov.html
Journey Through Art with W.H. Johnson: Chronicles the life and career of William Johnson (1901-1970), a major figure in 20th-century American Art, in text and images. Includes a chronological timeline of Johnson's works.
http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/johnson/intro3.html
On-line Picasso Project: This is a unique and wonderful site, organized by year of Picasso's life. For
each year, there is a detailed biography with built-in links to images of paintings, other artists' biographies, maps, and photographs:
http://www.tamu.edu/mocl/picasso
The Virtual Diego Rivera Museum: A great resource for looking at Rivera paintings and murals. Most of the
major murals are displayed in galleries organized by location and there are also many paintings, as well as biography: http://www.diegorivera.com
ArchNet: Links in Archaeology: This amazing resource in archaeology is organized by region (you click on a map for the region), by subject (ceramics, e.g.), and museums arranged alphabetically. There are many photo galleries available and scholarly articles.
http://archnet.uconn.eduMuseums
Archaeology
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave: Site outlines recent discovery and subsequent study of Paleolithic cave paintings in France. Contains image archive of paintings from cave and discussion of subject matter. http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm
Resources in Architecture: This links page from Vassar College Arts Library uses some helpful categories, such as image catalogues (for use online), period, architect, and virtual city tours. The city tours--such as the tours of Edinburgh, Chicago, and Isfahan-- are often great, when the links work. http://iberia.vassar.edu/~art/architecture.html
Architecture Virtual Library: This site is list of links, arranged alphabetically to major architecture resources on the web. There are resources for particular cities, countries, regions, and styles: http://www.clr.toronto.edu:1080/VIRTUALLIB/ARCH/hist.html
Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange: This is already extensive, and growing, archive of architectural images, organized first by World Survey I (Ancient to Medieval), World Survey II (Renaissance to Modern), and American Survey. Each of these categories is furthered subdivided by region and era. There are often a great number of different views and details for a site, such as Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia: http://www.sah.org/imagex.html
Europe Image Archive: Extensive image collection (at the University of Oregon) of surviving architectural remnants of the ancient world, including street scenes form Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Hellenistic theater at Epidaurus, a Roman aqueduct at Pont du Gard, the Interior of the Pantheon in Rome: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~atlas/europe/images.html
Great Buildings Online: This site includes information about a thousand buildings and hundreds of architects and is searchable by building, architect and place. For many of the buildings, you can download a 3D model (after downloading the free software); for some buldings, you can find architectural drawings, as well as images and general background information: http://greatbuildings.com
National Building Museum This is the only national museum devoted to building history; the site has an extensive set of past and present exhibits with texts and images, such as a miniature model and analysis of the White House: http://www.nbm.org/
Cyburbia: This is a vast directory of internet resources for the "built environment"--i.e., resources on urban planning, architecture, and environmental concerns. The history section of the directory leads to a number of wonderful links: http://cyburbia.ap.buffalo.edu/pairc
Urban Planning 1794-1918: Created at Cornell University, this site contains documents relevant to the creation and planning of cities, organized by year and by author. A number of documents relate to the design of Philadelphia: http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/pagetwo.htm
Levittown: Documents of an Ideal American Suburb: This is a photograph and text archive on the suburbs planned by Levitt; the photographs, in several sets, support the discussion and documents that describe the design of these suburbs: http://www.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/
Chicago Landmarks: A great visual tour of Chicago, supported by historical information and biographies of a number of architects and descriptions of their firms: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/
Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park: This site has a “Photo Tour” that enables you to view a map of Oak Park and click on the numerous Wright houses and see exterior and interior images, as well as general information. http://oprf.com/Wright/"
Frank Lloyd Wright: Lifework This site is designed to complement the Ken Burns’ documentary on Wright, and has some interesting features. For each of ten buildings Wright designed, there is critical commentary (newspaper/magazine articles) from the time the buildings were finished, as well as descriptions of Wright’s life at the time of the building. Under this category, “Wright’s life at the time,” you can choose to view film clips of any of several interviews Mike Wallace did with Wright. http://www.pbs.org/flw/index.html