Art History
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This section includes sites devoted to individual artists, periods and countries and also sites for specific themes, topics and museums. Some other relevant sites may be found in the reference section. Sites are generally listed in title order.
Artists | Periods, Schools,
Countries | Miscellaneous
Themes | Places &
Objects | Museums &
Institutions
The Artists org. Biographies and portraits of the major 20th century and contemporary visual artists, categorized by name and art movement. (Links to online image search.)
BBC Four - audio interviews - includes archive interviews with a range of painters and sculptors
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) at the Edmonton Art Gallery
The William Blake Archive, University of Virginia. (Includes illuminated books.)
The Brangwyn Bazaar information and news about Frank Brangwyn
Charles Despiau, French Sculptor
Thomas Ender (1793-1875) an online exhibition of 220 landscape paintings (text in English, German, Hungarian, Slovak)
Los caprichos de Goya, Calcografía Nacional. (In Spanish - requires Macromedia Flash plug-in)
The William Hogarth Archive, Founders' Library, University of Wales, Lampeter
Hogarth and His Times: Serious Comedy online exhibition from Berkeley Art Museum
William Hogarth Research Site by Bernd W. Krysmanski
Winslow Homer: The Obtuse Bard
Online Picasso project, from Texas A&M University
Jackson Pollock web feature, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Mark Rothko Web Feature, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976), German Expressionist
Tiepolo Virtual Picture Gallery
Henry Scott Tuke, (1858-1929) paintings, photographs and bibliography
Giorgio Vasari: The lives of the Artists
Johannes Vermeer (in Dutch, English and German)
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation
AaVaa: African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
Aboriginal Art site from the National Gallery of Australia
African Art (Steve Lonker)
archéire Irish Architecture and Design
ArtMagick- paintings and poetry from art movements of the 19th/20th centuries (eg Symbolist, Art Nouveau, Pre-Raphaelite, Gothick/Romantic, Surrealist). Send any painting/poem as a postcard. Links to buy related books and prints.
Australian Art from Steve Lonker's site - includes Aboriginal Art and the Heidelberg School
Art et Memoires - Peinture et peintres belges (Belgian 19th and 20th-century painting)
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
The CODART list of significant collections of Dutch and Flemish art (museums, exhibitions and congresses)
CobraFineArt.com - images and information about CoBrA
The John C and Susan L Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
The First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874
The Arts of India- The Timeless Theater Art Archives - thousands of pictures on Indianart and culture
Medart: Images of Medieval Art & Architecture
Medieval paintings in Midi France
Mérimée: guide to French architectural heritage (in French)
MUVA: Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais (English and Spanish versions) - specialises in Uruguayan and Latin American Art.
The Open University Guide to the Renaissance - a study guide which places the Renaissance in its economic and political context and explains more about the people, ideas and methods at its heart
The Art of Renaissance Science
SCRAN: Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
THAIS: 1200 Years of Italian Sculpture
The Web Gallery of Art - a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 14,500 reproductions.
A Drawing Glossary from Harvard University Art Museums (written by Edward Saywell)
Lynn Salerno's Art History Page
Carol Sutton's 5 Q Art History Quiz
World Art Treasures - illustrated essays on a wide variety of topics.
Britain's Bayeux
Tapestry
More detailed images from
ArtServe
Chauvet Cave and the CosquerCave (English Version)
Cupola, Dome and Tower Collection - images of cupolas; also a wide range of other art and architecural photographs.
Les Gaulois en Provence: l'oppidum d'Entremont (Gaul, 2nd century BC).
The Architecture of the Getty Center
The Ludovisi and Boston Thrones (Critical Debate Surrounding the Authenticity of the Boston Throne)
The art and architecture of Venice
Antique Prints- items for sale from Fine Rare Prints - site includes good quality images
Botanical and Ornithological art from Steve Lonker's site
luxflux - an excellent contemporary art site (in Italian)
'CoOL': Art Conservation On-Line
Glaadh: Globalising Art, Architecture and Design History - a project to embed cultural divesity in the curriculum by providing a focus on 'non-western' art. Includes links, bibliographies etc.
American Museum of Photography
Cut and Paste - a history of photomontagefrom Victorian composite photographs to the present day
Public Art/Public Sculpture studies at the Universitat de Barcelona
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA)
History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s by Dr. Robert Leggat
The Culture and History of Science Page
theory.org.uk The media theorysite
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Varo registry of Women artists
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wyoming featuring works by Audubon, Delacroix, Durer, etc.
For a comprehensive listing see the WWW Virtual Library Museums pages.
Art Guide: a comprehensive Internet guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, University of California
The Age of King Charles V - 1,000 illuminations from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Connecticut College's Wetmore Print Collection
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Museum
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD)
The National Gallery of Victoria on Russell
Last revision July 2006