Art and Research sites


Great (and useful) Art Sites: (please note: when you visit an off-campus site, a new window will open.)
Art History and References	Directories	Instruction	Museums & Galleries	Online Magazines & News	Organizations	Specialized Art Sites N.B. Art History sites are listed alphabetically below; scroll down.	Writing Guides and Dictionaries
			United States
			Abroad
Art History and References
Anthropology Collection Database (California Academy of Sciences) Digital images of ethnographic and archaeological materials of indigenous cultures http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/collections/collintro.htm
Artcyclopedia: Where the World Finds Great Art Search by artist name, title of artwork or museum name/place; browse by movement, medium, subject, nationality or name http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Artist-Info: contemporary art database http://www.artist-info.com/
ArtsEdge/ Marcopolo from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, NY http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/
ARTLEX: A Dictionary of Visual Art http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/Intro.html
CGFA-Featured Artists; an index to featured artists with links to images. http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/featured.htm
Digits: An Art History Teacher's Practical Advice and Random Musings on New Technologies and the Classroom: http://www.clt.astate.edu/wallen/digits/Default.htm
German Government's "Lost Art Database"
Great Buildings on Line http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
Greatest Painters on the Web http://www.finesite.webart.ru/greatest/Default.htm
Image Finder (Berkeley Digital Library) http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/
insight ® Visual Collections: images of art, history and culture http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/finearts.html
Project Gutenberg: Fine Literature Digitally Republished. Download and print complete texts of books published before 1923. http://www.promo.net/pg/index.html
The Guerrilla Girls: http://www.guerrillagirls.com/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History (20,000 BC to 1400 AD) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
The Roland Collection of Films & Videos on Art (Offers 300 hours of free online viewing ) http://www.roland-collection.com/
SILS Art Image Browser http://www.si.umich.edu/Art_History/
The Union List of Artist Names Browser (A great tool to identify alternative spellings of artist's names, and alternative names that they have been known by.) http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/ulan/
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia Arts of the Ancient World http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_of_the_ancient_world
Web Gallery of Art Artist Index **contains thumbnails and high resolution images for all artists in the list. http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/artist.html
Directories
Art History Resources on the Web: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Digital Librarian Art http://www.digital-librarian.com/art.html
Gateway to Art History: links arranged to correspond to chapters in Gardner's Art through the ages: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
The Mother of All Art History Pages: http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/
The Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/ Click on "Humanities," "Art" or Museums" ( note: especially good Asian Art links)
Instruction
A Brush with Wildlife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius Painting tutorials, beginning with composition and thematic selection http://www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/
Museums & Galleries United States:
Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/
Art Museum Network - includes library of thumbnail pictures http://www.amn.org/
Berkeley Art Museum (UC/Berkeley) http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/
Boston Museum of Fine Arts http://www.mfa.org/
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-- California Palace of the Legion of Honor and M. H. de Young Memorial Museum http://www.thinker.org/
The Frick Collection, NYC http://www.frick.org/html/collmnf.htm
Guggenheim Museum http://www.guggenheim.org/
Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/
Museum of Modern Art, NY http://www.moma.org/
Museums Online (MuseumsStuff.Com) http://www.museumstuff.com/
National Galllery of Art, Washington, DC http://www.nga.gov/
National Museum of American Art http://americanart.si.edu/index3.cfm
Philadelphia Museum of Art http://www.philamuseum.org/
Richmond Art Center http://www.therac.org/index.html
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/
SF Station Museum Guide: http://www.sfstation.com/museums/index.htm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art http://www.sfmoma.org/
San Jose State Digital Art Lobby http://gallery.sjsu.edu/
The Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco http://www.asianart.org/
The Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY http://www.metmuseum.org/home.asp
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. http://www.nga.gov/
National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. http://www.nmafa.si.edu/default.htm
National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org/
The Oakland Museum http://www.museumca.org/
The San Jose Museum of Art http://sjmusart.org/
The Smithsonian Institution http://www.si.edu/
The Yerba Buena Center for The Arts http://yerbabuenaarts.org/b_ybca.html
Museums & Galleries Abroad
The British Museum http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/
Searchable index to the British Museum Collection: http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ (Try a search for "Elgin Marbles")
Egyptian Museum in Cairo http://homepage.powerup.com.au/%7Eancient/museum.htm
The Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/llv/commun/home_flash.jsp?bmLocale=en
I. M. Pei Pyramid at the Louvre
Kyoto National Museum http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/indexe.htm
National Archaeological Museum of Athens http://www.culture.gr/2/21/214/21405m/e21405m1.html
The National Gallery, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/
The Sigmund Freud Museum http://www.freud-museum.at/e/index.html
The Tate Museum London on-line http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm
The Vatican Museum http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/
The Virtual Uffizi (Florence, Italy), complete catalogue http://www.arca.net/uffizi/
Web Museum (Paris) http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/
Online Magazines & News
Asian Art http://www.asianart.com/index.html
International Art News (AbsoluteArts.com) http://www.absolutearts.com/
Organizations
College Art Association: http://www.collegeart.org/caa/aboutcaa/index.html
Period Specific & Specialized Art Sites
American Avant-Garde Art Before and After 1945 The Ash Can School Robert Henri (pronounced HEN-rye) John Sloan The Stieglitz Group Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz 291 Gallery Marsden Hartley American Art Between the Wars Precisionism Charles Scheeler American Scene Painting (The Regionalists) Grant Wood Wood's Paintings Edward Hopper The 1913 Armory Show The Harlem Renaissance General Resources Media Sources Link The Library of Congress materials on the Harlem Renaissance Aaron Douglas Douglas' Visual Blues The Mexican Muralist Movement Diego Rivera Rivera's Life and Work Diego Rivera at the Web Museum Federal Patronage for American Art During the Depression The Federal Arts Project Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942 Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence's papers at the Smithsonian Remembering Jacob Lawrence Lawrence's Migration Series On Tour Slide Show of 9 panels of the Migration Series The Avant-Garde Since 1945 Abstract Expressionism and The New York School Jackson Pollock Want to Paint a Pollock? Short Film on Pollock Willem de Kooning Short Film on de Kooning de Kooning in the 1980s Mark Rothko The Rothko Chapel, Houston, TX Rothko's Legacy Barnett Newman Assemblage Robert Rauchenberg Obituary Robert Rauschenberg Film on Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Jasper Johns Jasper Johns Retrospective Exhibition The House UnAmerican Activities Committee Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism Pop Art Roy Liechtenstein Andy Warhol Feminist Art and the Culture Wars The Feminist Art Project Timeline The Culture Wars Betye Saar Judy Chicago Woman House Chicago's Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum Maya Ying Lin The Viet Nam Veteren's Memorial Maya Ying Lin's The Confluence Project Jaune Quick-To-See Smith Faith Ringgold Lorna Simpson Kara Walker Carrie Mae Weems Mirror Mirror Post-War Photography Robert Frank Photographs from The Americans Earthworks and Site Specific Sculpture Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Christo and Jeanne-Claude The Running Fence
African Art -- SEE African Studies: Arts & Culture
African American Art -- SEE African American Studies - Arts & Culture
Architecture--The Great Buildings Collection http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc.html
Ancient Near Eastern Art The Royal Cemeteries at Ur http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/tombs/home_set.html The Ziggerats of Sumer http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/ziggurats/index.html The Palaces of Assyria: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/palaces/home_set.html Mesopotamian Art in The Collection of the Louvre http://www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ao/ao_f.htm
Asian Art China The Art of China http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html Asian Art Museum of San Francisco http://www.asianart.org/ Chinese art - See articles on various Chinese periods and dynasties (links in chart) http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/c/chinese.html China and South East Asia on the web at North Park University, Chicago http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/China/QinDynasty.html Confucius (K'ung-fu-tzu or Kongfuzi) http://www.friesian.com/confuci.htm The Freer Gallery: The National Museum of Asian Art http://www.asia.si.edu/ The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History: Asian Art http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/intro/atr/thematic_index.htm Go to the "A" section of the thematic index The Minnisota Institute of Arts--The Arts of Asia http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/china/maps/north-sung.cfm Japan Nara National Museum, Masterpieces of Buddhist Art http://www.narahaku.go.jp/index_e.htm Pure Land Buddhist Art http://www.threewheels.org.uk/arcsub/japanesbud.htm http://www.zeelearn.com/course/IKEBANA/html/buddhist.htm
Art of the Americas Chaco Canyon, New Mexico http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/archeology/chaco.html http://members.aol.com/mjhinton/chaco/ http://www.ncafe.com/4corners/astronomy.html http://www.cr.nps.gov/worldheritage/chaco.htm Cohokia, Illinois http://medicine.wustl.edu/~mckinney/cahokia/cahokia.html http://www.cr.nps.gov/worldheritage/cahokia.htm The Great Serpent Mound, Ohio http://www.csulb.edu/depts/history/default/ugrad/pflegerS01/images/AISerpent.html http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_035500_serpentmound.htm The Maya http://mexico.udg.mx/historia/precolombinas/ingles/maya/ http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CIVAMRCA/MAYAS.HTM Teotihuacan, Mexico http://www.dallas.net/~lalo/teotihua.html http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/ http://whc.unesco.org/sites/414.htm http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/pyramids/teotihuacan.html Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820, Smith College
Classical Art
Aegean Art Aegean Art at the University of Oklahoma Contains information and images.http://www.ou.edu/finearts/art/ahi4913/aegeanhtml/aegean2.html Aegean--web design by Enquire http://www.etciu.com/MUSEUM/M_HTML/PREVIEWS/archaic_art/AEGEA_ART.html The Hellenistic Ministery of Culture, contains links to museums and historic sites throughout the Aegean area. http://www.culture.gr/2/21/maps/hellas.html The Ancient Greek World http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Greek_World/index2.html Greek Mythology http://www.messagenet.com/myths/ The Perseus Project (Ancient Greece & Rome) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/ The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
Early Jewish, Christian, and Byzantine Art The Christian Catacombes of Rome http://www.catacombe.roma.it/welcome.html The Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey http://www.patriarchate.org/HAGIA_SOPHIA/ Focus; Mediterranean Civilizations Index to archaeological sites: http://www.focusmm.com/civimenu.htm
Early Medieval Art Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Palatine_Chapel.html Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel at Aix-la Chapelle http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth212/carolingian_pal_chapel.html The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies Sponsored by Georgetown University http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ The Lindisfarne Gospels http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/lindis.html Medieval Art at the Metropolitan Museum, New York http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=17
Egyptian Art Ancient Egypt (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/ancient/aegypt.html Egyptian Art 2700 BC-200 AD http://www.mystudios.com/art/ancient/egyptian/egyptian.html Explore the Pyramids (PBS NOVA Online), with links to: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/ Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology http://www.memphis.edu/egypt/main.html The Egyptian Museum in Cairo with links to works in the collection: http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/frame_bar_1024.html Monuments to Glory: The Temples of Ancient Egypt, with links to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and the temples at Amarnahttp://members.tripod.com/~ib205/monuments.html
Eighteenth Century Art Lewis, Hackett, The Age of Enlightenment, 1992 Hooker, Richard, European Enlightenment, 1996 Frost, Martin, The Age of Enlightenment, 2008 Timeline: 18th Century Europe/North America The Industrial Revolution Six Part Documentary Series on the Industrial Revolution by David Dugan and Alan Macfarlane, each approximately 1 hour: The day the World Took Off Philosophes: Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, Definition of Philosophes Society in the 18th Century http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/18intro.html http://www.history1700s.com/articles/article1004.shtml http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/peasantsaristos.html Madame Pompadour Rococo Art http://www.loggia.com/art/18th/rococo.html Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, Definition of Rococo François Boucher (1703-1770) The Paintings Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806) Biography The Fragonard Paintings of Louveciennes (The Progress of Love) Essay on Fragonard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Jean-Antoine Watteau The Paintings http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/w/watteau/antoine/1/index.html Neoclassical Art http://www.artchive.com/artchive/neo_classical.html Jacques-Louis David (1744-1825) Biography The Paintings Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) Biography The Paintings William Hogarth (1697-1764) Biography The Paintings Angelica Kaufmann Biography http://www.ukheritage.net/people/kaufmaa.htm http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=synge&book=englishwomen&story=angelica http://www.female-ancestors.com/daughters/kaufmann.htm The Paintings Pompeii and Herculaneum The Riddle of Pompeii and The Hidden Scrolls of Herculaneum (scroll down.) Eye Witness to the Eruption of A.D. 79! Excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum Mark the First Systematic Study in Archeology Pompeii, the Official Site Pompeii, the Archaeology http://www.pompeiana.org/ http://www.stanford.edu/group/pompeii/ http://archive.cyark.org/Pompeii-map.php#1 Herculaneum http://www.roman-empire.net/articles/article-011.html
Islamic Art The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem http://www.sacredsites.com/1st30/domeof.html http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Dome_of_the_Rock.html http://www.noblesanctuary.com/contents.html The Alhambra, Granada, Spain http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Alhambra.html Sacred Places, includes The Great Mosque at Cordoba http://witcombe.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/cordoba.html
Gothic Art Guilds in 14th Century Europe The End of the Middle Ages Gothic Cathedrals1 Gothic Cathedrals 2 Saint Francis of Assisi The Black Death: Bubonic Plague http://www.byu.edu/ipt/projects/middleages/LifeTimes/Plague.html Amiens Cathedral http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/Amiens.html Chartres Cathedral http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/chartreswest/centralportal.html http://www.beloit.edu/~arthist/historyofart/gothic/chartrescath.htm http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Chartres_Cathedral.html Notre Dame, Reims http://www2.art.utah.edu/cathedral/rei_xw.html http://www.great-cathedrals.com/Cathedrals/Notre_Dame_Reims/ http://vrc.ucr.edu/tutorials/gothic/reims/reims.html Notre Dame, Paris http://www.elore.com/Gothic/History/Overview/paris.htm http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/notre-dame/ Gothic Art in Italy Florence Cathedral http://www.imt-brainjuice.com/S_Firenze.asp?Lang=UK Pisa Baptistery http://www2.art.utah.edu/cathedral/pisa_bapi.html The Arena Chapel, Padua http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/tours/giotto/arena.html http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth213/arenachapel.html The Florence Baptistery http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/bc.htm http://www.cameron.edu/~barbaras/photos/Baptistery.htm Duccio's Maesta http://www.meredith.edu/art/research/maesta_reconstruction.htm Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Frescoes of the Good and Bad Government http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/l/lorenzet/ambrogio/governme/
La Raza Art -- SEE La Raza Studies: Arts & Culture
Middle Eastern Art -- SEE Middle Eastern Studies: Arts & Culture
Modernism (20th-Century European) Sigmund Freud's, Interpretation of Dreams, 1900 Dream Psychology Expressionist Movements: The Fauves (in France) Henri Matisse at the Web Museum Expressionist Movements in Germany Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1) Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, 1905-13 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Kierchner and the formation of Brücke German Expressionists and the "Primitive" (2) Der Blau Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich, 1912-16 Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art Franz Marc The Independent Expressionists Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz Museum in Berlin Biography and Virtual Tour Kollwitz at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Egon Schiele at the Web Museum Live Flesh By Arthur C. Danto Review of Schiele's work Cubism Pablo Picasso On-Line Picasso Project Article on Picasso, Time Magazine Video on Picasso Georges Braque Dada Dada Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006 Dada at the Web Museum Marcel Duchamp Duchamp Video Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp Surrealism Andre Breton (French), theorist and author of The Surrealist Manifesto, 1924 Salvador Dali Dali's Wind Powered Surrealist Organ Watch Dali's film Un Chien Andalou Meret Oppenheim Joan Miró Italian Futurism Suppression of the Avant-Garde in Germany
Native American Art -- SEE Native American Studies: Arts & Culture
Nineteenth-Century Art The Academy d' Beaux Arts Photograpy, Its Inventon and Early History Invention of Photography Niepce/Daguerre/Isadore Maison Nicephore Niepce Henry William Fox-Talbot Museum William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) and the Invention of Photography A Brief History of Panoramic Photography Book Review: The Panorama: History of a Mass Medium by Stephan Oetterman Early Photography: Making Daguerreotypes 1849 Photography Textbook Realism Art History-Realism American Realism Gustave Courbet Courbet, The Realist Manifesto Courbet Speaks Essay on Courbet on the occasion of a special exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New Your Courbet's Paintings Honore Daumier Daumier at the Musée d'Orsay Daumier: The Complete Graphics Biography and works in the Hammer Museum Collection Jean-François Millet Works in various museum collections Biography, Web Museum Paris Thomas Eakins(1844-1916) Biography from the Art Archive PBS on Thomas Eakins Thomas Eakins at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC Paintings in a Special Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Manet Biobraphy and other references Tour: Manet and His Influence, National Gallery of Art Manet's Studio Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882 Manet's Olympia, 1863 All of Manet's painings Romanticism My Hidious Progeny: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein Mary Shelly, Frankenstein, The compllete text 19th Century Scientific Achievements The Life and Research of Charles Darwin The Complete Works of Charles Darwin On Line Social Darwinism Romanticism Romanticism 2 Antoine-Jean Gros Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835, His paintings and a brief biography. Antoine-Jean Gross Biography Theodore Gericault Gericault's Raft of the Medusa Raft of the Medusa The Medusa Project Eugene Delacroix Brief Biography Musee Delacroix, France Francisco Goya Resources on Goya and His Work Goya, His Life and Work Joseph Mallord William Turner Turner at the National Gallery in London Essay on Turner at the Metropolitan Museum, New York Turner's Gallery at the Tate, London Impressionism and Post Impressionism Haussmann's Paris The Arcades Project/ Walter Benjamin Edited by Roy Tiedemann Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin Êcole des Beaux-Arts Salon des Refuses Charles Baudelaire and The Painting of Modern Life Biography Société des Artistes Indépendants Impressionism at the Web Museum Claude Monet biography and high resolution images of his works Monet's method of painting from Techniques of the Great Masters of Art Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Renior Gallery Edgar Degas At the Web Museum of Art Biography at Harvard PBS Degas and Dancing The Women Impressionists: A Sourcebook Berthe Morisot At the Web Museum of Art Biography Mary Cassatt At the Web Museum of Art Post-Impressionism Paul Cézanne At the Web Museum of Art Biography Georges Seurat At the Web Museum of Art Pointillism A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884, 1884–86 Paul Gauguin At the Web Museum of Art Biography Vincent van Gogh The Vincent van Gogh Gallery Van Gogh's Letters Artical on Van Gogh's Self-Mutilation
Roman Pompeii Under the Volcano. University of Virginia's site on research completed between 1995 to 1997. Includes academic papers, texts of letters by Pliny the Younger, large-scale-black-and -white photographs, and street plans of Pompeii http://pompeii.virginia.edu
Romanesque Art Eyewitness to History: Invasion of England, 1066 (The Bayeux Tapestry) http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bayeux.htm Fontenay Abbey, featuring a virtual tour http://www.abbayedefontenay.com/ Pilgrimage Routes to Santiago de Compostella http://www.hotelesconencanto.org/hotel_rioja/hotel_casalarreina/routes/pilgrimage_route.htm The Bayeux Tapestry (all of the scenes) http://www.sjolander.com/viking/museum/bt/bt.htm The Reading Bayeux Tapestry (a copy made by Victorian needleworkers) http://www.bayeuxtapestry.org.uk/ The Vezelay Route http://www.caminosantiagocompostela.com/OtherSites/TheViaLemovincensis/ Webcam on the Obradoiro Square of Santiago de Compostela, watch the pilgrims arrive http://www.crtvg.es/ingles/camweb/camweb.html
Prehistoric Art Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave (Paleolithic cave paintings) http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/ http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/chauvet/ Lascaux: http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/lascaux/en/ Neolithic Monuments http://julen.net/ancient/Archaeology/Megaliths/index.html Neolithic Sites and Mounds in the British Isles (includes links to Avebury Circle, Sillbury Hill, West Kennet Long Barrow, Stonehenge, http://witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMMegaSites.html New Grange http://www.knowth.com/ High Resoulution Images of New Grange (click on Irland, then County Meath) http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/rug/image_collection/hier/bi/ The Stones of Ireland (includes New Grange)http://www.stonepages.com/ireland/ireland.html Venus of Willendorf, Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/ Venus of Willendorf, Museum of Natural History, Vienna: http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/NHM/Prehist/Collection/Objekte_PA_01_E.html
Protorenaissance Art
Encyclopedia Britanica On-line Article on Guilds You will be required to enter your last name and your Student ID #; then search for "Guilds" Note: When you are studying, a backgroud explaination helps to understand a concept when you are confused. This is an excellent and reliable resource. Guilds in 14th Century Europe The End of the Middle Ages Gothic Cathedrals1 Gothic Cathedrals 2 Saint Francis of Assisi Mystery Plays http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Miracle_Plays_and_Mysterie Florence Cathedral (The Duomo), 1296-1378 Altarpieces Definition Virtual tour of the Scrovegni Chapel, including Giotto's frescos Complete images and details of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effects of Good Government The Black Death: Bubonic Plague http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plague.htm
Renaissance Art
Background: Leone Battista Alberti, Della pittura (On Painting), 1435 English Translation http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Alberti/ Florence Cathedral (The Duomo), 1296-1378 Orsanmichele, with all of the sculptures http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/orsanmichele.html Caesar Ripa, Iconographia http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/Ripa/Images/ripatoc.htm http://www.levity.com/alchemy/iconolog.html http://www.humi.keio.ac.jp/~matsuda/ripa/ripa_index.html Brunelleschi Brunelleschi, primary text, Vasari's Lives of the Artists http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/vasari/vasari5.htm Brunelleschi, biography with images of works http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Brunelleschi.html The Baptistery Doors http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/ghiberti.html Brunelleschi's Theory of Linear Perspective http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html BRUNELLESCHI'S PEEPSHOW & THE ORIGINS OF PERSPECTIVE http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit11/unit11.html Brunelleschi, Great Buildings on line http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Filippo_Brunelleschi.html Audio Guide to Brunelleschi's Cathedral Dome http://www.italyguides.it/us/florence/the_dome_of_brunelleschi.htm Donatello Vasari's Lives of the Artist; primary source material on Donatello http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dona/hd_dona.htm Ghiberti (Lorenzo) Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paridise http://www.haberarts.com/ghiberti.htm New York Times review of exhibition of panels from the Gates of Paridise http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/arts/design/30gate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin The Baptistery Doors http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici/renaissance/ghiberti.html Leonardo Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci 1550 Leonardo da Vinci's Paintings and Drawings Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci by Maurice Walter Brockwell English Translation of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Jean Paul Richter[1883] Mona Lista Images for a Modern World http://www.studiolo.org/Mona/MONALIST.htm Leonardo's Last Supper, Refrectory of Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan http://milan.arounder.com/da_vinci_last_supper/ http://www.cenacolovinciano.it/html/eng/smgrazie.htm http://www.haltadefinizione.com/en/ http://arthistory.about.com/cs/leonardo/a/last_supper.htm Masaccio Masaccio Biography http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/m/masaccio/biograph.html Vasari's Lives of the Artists; primary source material on Masaccio Masaccio's Brancacci Chapel http://www.museumsinflorence.com/musei/Brancacci_chapel.html Michelangelo Michelangelo sites: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/michelan/michelangelo_bio.htm http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/mich/ Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Michael Angelo The Borgia Pope, Pope Alexander VI, IN THE PILLORY, THE TALE OF THE BORGIA POPE, IN NINE CROWDED CHAPTERS, 38 SPLENDID ILLUSTRATIONS, By John Bond, European Corrospondent, The Fellowship Forum, Wash, D.C., 1929 Rodrigo Borgia - Pope Alexander VI Julius II Sistine Chapel, Vatican Sistine Chapel Exploring the Sistine Chapel Ceiling http://www.science.wayne.edu/~mcogan/Humanities/Sistine/index.html> - offering both and overview of the entire ceiling as well as a panel by panel examination. MSLA - The Sistine Chapel http://www.drjoshuadavidstone.com/scc.htm atwork from the famous chapel. Virtual Sistine Chapel http://gallery.euroweb.hu/tours/sistina/index.html collects text and pictures concerning the chapel, its history, and the masters who created it. Visit to the Sistine Chapel in Vatican http://www.rm.astro.it/amendola/sistina.html from the Web Gallery of Art, with information on the architecture, and paintings of the Vatican landmark The Vatican Museum On-Line The Restoration of the Sistine Chapel Last Judgment Contains high resolution details of the Last Judgment: The Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Essay on the Last Judgment and the theology behind it Valerie Shrimplin,(University of London), " Michelangelo and Copernicus: A Nore on the Sistine Last Judgment," Science History Puplications Ltd., 2000 The documents from The Council of Trent The Council of Trent The Council of Trent and the Protestant Reformation The Catholic View of the Council of Trent from the Catholic Encyclopedia Rapael Perugino and Raffaello, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Met Museum Essay on the Pacy and the Vatican Palace Identifies the major figures and gives information about their teachings School of Athens Article on the School of Athens Daniel Orth Bell, "New Identifications in Raphael's 'School of Athens' " The Art Bulletin, 2004 An explanation of Raphael's Disputa Giorgione Exhibition Catalog Essay Giorgione: Myth and Inigma (Exhibition web site) Giorgione and Fra Sebastiano del Pombio; Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Titian Web Gallery of his paintings Giorgio Vasari, Titian, Lives of the Artists Veronese TheTranscript of Veronese's Appearance before the Inquisition Paolo Veronese Before the Inquisition in Venice For 16th century list
Official web site of the Leaning Tower of Pisa http://torre.duomo.pisa.it/
Northern European Art in the 15th Century
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/index.htmlRobert Campin Merode Altarpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/ViewOne.asp?item=56.70&dep=7Robert Campin Merode Altarpiece, The Iconography http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/campin.htmlJan van Eyck http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ghnt/hd_ghnt.htm Claus Sluter http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sluter_claus.html Ambrogio Lorenzetti: Complete images and details of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Effects of Good Government Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/index.html Robert Campin Merode Altarpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/ViewOne.asp?item=56.70&dep=7 Robert Campin Merode Altarpiece, The Iconography http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth214_folder/campin.html Jan van Eyck http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/eyck/ http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ghnt/hd_ghnt.htm Claus Sluter http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sluter_claus.html Mystery Plays http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Miracle_Plays_and_Mysteries Caesar Ripa, Iconographia http://emblem.libraries.psu.edu/Ripa/Images/ripatoc.htm http://www.levity.com/alchemy/iconolog.html http://www.humi.keio.ac.jp/~matsuda/ripa/ripa_index.html Yes it is still in print! Amazon
Northern European Art in the 16th Century Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Time Line of Art History: The Reformation The Antichrist and the Protestant Reformation by Steve Wohlberg The Protestant Reformation Documents A Summary of the Reformation Primary Source Documents Lucas Cranach the Elder on the Reformation Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch in the History of Art The Bosch Universe Hieronymus Bosch's works Art Encyclopedia, Hieronymus Bosch On-Line The Garden of Earthly Delights Pieter Bruegel the Elder Bruegel Biography Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the History of Art Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Complete Paintings Big Fish Eat Little Fish, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Albrecht Dürer Albrecht Dürer in Art History Project Gutenberg: Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer Lucas Cranach the Elder Matthias Grünewald (1460-1528) The Isenheim Altarpiece, c. 1510-15, o/pnl A Masterpiece Born of Saint Anthony's Fire by Stanley Meisler Grünewald's in the Colmar Museum , from Trois Primitifs, by J.-K. Huysmans Encounter with Grünewald, Currents in Theology and Mission, Feb, 2004 by Roy A. Harrisville
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17th Century Art in the Dutch Republic The Dutch Republic in the early seventeenth century http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/351/351-08.htm History of the Dutch Republic during the 17th century http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1764435 17th Century Dutch Painting in the National Gallery, Washington, DC http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/dutch.shtm A Brief Overview of the Dutch Art Market in the 17th c. http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dutch_art/ecnmcs_dtchart.html http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=187 Frans Hals Biography http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hals/halsbio.html http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hals/ Judith Leyster National Museum of Women in the Arts—Artist’s Profile http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=1047 Biography http://arthistory.heindorffhus.dk/frame-Leyster.htm Johannes /Jan Vermeer Web Gallery of Art: Vermeer's paintings A multimedia encyclopedic web site on Johannes Vermeer & life in Delft The Essential Vermeer Rembrandt van Rijn Biography http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=473 Rembrandt in the History of Art http://www.all-art.org/history252-21.html Rembrandt’s House in Amsterdam http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/cms_pages/index_main.html Web Catalog of Rembrandt’s Paintings http://staff.science.uva.nl/~fjseins/RembrandtCatalogue/ About Rembrandt’s Etchings Jan Steen Biography http://www.abcgallery.com/S/steen/steenbio.html http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Jan_Steen/biography.html
17th Century Italy and France The Counter-Reformation Modern History Sourcebook: Reformation Europe Modern History Sourcebook: Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (Moriae Encomium), 1509 Modern History Sourcebook: Sir Thomas More: Utopia, 1516 Art of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation ABRIDGED HISTORY OF ROME - PART IIIV - EARLY BAROQUE ROME Pope Sixtus V Plan for Rome by William Cone The Guttenberg Project, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8120 Timeline of Art History: Rome and Southern Italy, 1600—1800 C.E. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/09/eusts/ht09eusts.htm Architectural Time and Space: Baroque Architecture http://www.learn.columbia.edu/ha/html/baroque.html The Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi http://www.artemisia-gentileschi.com/index.shtml Modern History Sourcebook: Social Conditions in 17th Century France http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/17france-soc.html Artists and Academies http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/academies.html Gian Lorenzo Bernini Biography Link to Carnaro Chapel site with quotation from the writings of St. Teresa Bernini Architect http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Bernini.html Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) Biography Biography 2 WebMuseum, Paris, Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da CV Caravaggio, The Life of the Artist with Illustrations Pod Cast on the Calling of St. Matthew Interview with Caravaggio's biographer, Peter Robb Caravaggio and Homoeroticism Artemisia Gentileschi Biography T he Life and Art of Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia: The Rape and the Trial Jacque Callot Biography de La Tour Biography The Artist's Paintings Claude Lorrain Brief Biography and overview of his paintings Biography and overview of his work Nicholas Poussin Poussin and Nature: Exhibition at the Met Poussin's Patrons Essay on Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Poussin in Rome: Foundations of French Classicism Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions The Founding of the French Royal Academy
17th Century Spain and Flanders General History (17th century) Spain http://www.wga.hu/tours/spain/h_17.html The Golden Century http://www.sispain.org/english/language/golden.html Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Exhibition at the National Galley of Art, Washington, DC) http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg30/gg30-main1.html 17th Century Conversos in Amsterdam (Conversos were forced converts to Catholicism) http://www.kulanu.org/netherlands/amsterdam.html Zurbaran Biography The Beckoning Art Page VELÁZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Las Meninas at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago Rubens Biography http://www.abcgallery.com/R/rubens/rubensbio.html Before Rubens, no Western artist of equally great talent had been as well born… http://www.artchive.com/artchive/R/rubens.html Rubens: A Master in the Making Exhibition at the National Gallery, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/rubens/default.htm End of innocence: Rubens was a pacifist in a world of warmongers. So why was he so fascinated by bloody scenes of horrifying violence? By Jonathan Jones, Manchester Guardian http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,11710,903646,00.html The Medici Cycle http://www.students.sbc.edu/vandergriff04/mariedemedici.html Anthony Van Dyke Brief Biography http://www.artchive.com/artchive/V/van_dyck.html Biography http://www.abcgallery.com/V/vandyck/vandyckbio.html
Photography--Masters of Photography http://www.masters-of-photography.com/ See aso Nineteenth Century Art--Realism (above)
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