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Last updated, April 10, 2004

GENERAL RESOURCES

  • Carol Jackson's Fine Art - The best art site on the Internet. A plethora of high quality scans of fine art.
  • Artcyclopedia - The Fine Art Search Engine - A handy way to find on-line images of famous artworks by searching title, keyword, artists, etc.
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History - A comprehensive site, presenting a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world as illustrated especially by the Met's collection.
  • Art History Resources on the Web - An extensive list of links.
  • Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
  • SILS Art Image Browser - Searchable collection of images from the University of Michigan History of Art Department, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and others.
  • WebMuseum
  • Artchive
  • Olga's Gallery
  • Web Gallery of Art - Search and view over 11,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between 1150 and 1800.
  • World Art Treasures
  • Asian Art


    JUDAICA & JEWISH ART

  • Center for Jewish Art - Hebrew University Jerusalem; includes information about the Jerusalem Index of Jewish Art and the Journal of Jewish Art
  • JTS Library Exhibits
  • Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress
  • A Great Assemblage: An Exhibit of Judaica - From the Yale University Library
  • A Brief History of Jewish Art - From the Jewish Art Network
  • Jewish Museum, New York - See esp. on-line exhibitions


    EARLY & MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ART

  • Princeton Index of Christian Art - Database accessible only from subscribing institutions.
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Art - Some representative samples from AICT.
  • Ecole Initiative: Images - Organized by figures (biblical, NT, patristic).
  • Byzantine Art - A stunning course website by Dr. Rozmeri Basic (University of Oklahoma)
  • NetSERF: Art - Collection of links from NetSERF, a site dedicated to on-line resources about the Middle Ages
  • Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts - A rich and wonderful site, which is searchable and which includes 11,000 unique illustrations from 400 illuminated manuscripts from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague, The Netherlands. Also notable are the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's other web exhibitions.
  • On-line Aberdeen Bestiary - A lushly illuminated MS from ca. 1200 beautifully digitalized and handily annotated by University of Aberdeen; see also the equally wonderful jobs they've done with the Burnet Psalter and St. Albans Psalter.
  • The Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - 1,000 Illuminations from the Department of MSS of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
  • Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - Digitized images of over 80 medieval MSS, including several illustrated and illuminated MSS.
  • ECIT: Electronic Compendium of Images and Text, The Piero Project - A Princeton-based research project that aims to "to show art objects in a spatial environment that retains the three-dimensional context and relative scale," so that the viewer can "navigate through scanned, full-color images and other information, verbal and visual, thereby gaining access to visual information that is closer to perceptions of reality than those offered by slides and photographs."


    MUSEUMS

  • Art Museums Worldwide
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art - An extensive and well-designed website with ample resources for research and teaching.
  • British Museum - See COMPASS, database of images of over 5,000 objects from the collection
  • Gallery of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
  • The Louvre - Highlights of the website include the virtual tour and ATLAS its database of exhibited art
  • The Israel Musueum
  • Kyoto National Museum
  • Musei Vaticani - Features include on-line tour and highlights
  • Gallerie dell'Accademia and Galleria degli Uffizi - Both part of a broader site dedicated to the museums of Florence
  • Accademia di Venezia
  • Civic Museums of Venice
  • Guggenheim Museums - Websites for the museums in NY, Venice, etc., plus digitized images of selections from these collections
  • Smithsonian Museums
  • Le Musee de Beaux-Arts de Montreal
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - See their on-line collections database
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - One of my favorite museums.
  • Harvard University Art Museums - Website includes an interactive "Investigating the Renaissance" on-line exhibition.
  • Princeton University Art Museum
  • Philadelphia Art Museum - See their special web projects, esp. "Leaves of GOLD: Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections"
  • National Gallery of Canada - Note too their digitally-oriented project CyberMuse, which aims "to link you to the National Gallery of Canada's permanent collection through the Internet offering a complementary experience, a new dimension in interpreting, understanding and enjoying Canada's visual arts heritage."
  • Royal Ontario Museum - Progress on new construction can be viewed via webcam
  • Art Gallery of Ontario


    SPECIFIC ARTISTS, MOVEMENTS, & THEMES

  • Ukiyoe Page
  • Ando Hiroshige
  • Katsushika Hokusai
  • Seiwa-en
  • Michelangelo
  • Digital Michelangelo Project
  • William Blake
  • William Blake Archive
  • John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery
  • John Singer Sargent Murals at the Boston Public Library
  • Sargent at Harvard
  • Chagall Windows at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center - 12 sons of Jacob
  • Gustave Dore - Bible Gallery

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