There are many art-related web sites out there. This list is by no means
comprehensive, but it's a start. If you come across any good ones on your
own, or if any of these become out of date, please
let me know. If you want to search for a site on your own, Yahoo and Google
are good search engines to use. Otherwise, you can link to some of the sites
I've listed below, which I've broken down into categories.
If you're looking for information on a building, be sure to check out
the separate Architecture section below.
If you don't see a link to the particular artist or period you're looking
for, check out the Art Research and Resources
section below. There are some good general sites in which you can find someone
specific. Of particular interest are the following four sites, each of which
have a good collection of artists and periods: Carol
Gerten's Fine Art (CGFA)/A Virtual Art Museum, Mark
Harden's Artchive, WebMuseum,
and Orazio Centaro's Art Images
on the Web (OCAIW).
Happy Hunting!
You can use the following Table of Contents to jump to a particular
section on this page. Just click on where you want to go.
Museums
- If you can't find a museum from my list below, check out The
Museum Computer Network, which has links to over a thousand U.S. and
international museums.
United States Museums
Note: I haven't included the local
museums that are in your syllabus. To see that list:
click here for the ART 165 and ART 166 museum
list or
click here for the ART 100 museum list
- Amon Carter Museum,
Fort Worth, Texas
- Art Institute, Chicago
- Brooklyn Museum of Art
- Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
- Center
for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.
- Duke University Museum of Art,
North Carolina
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(includes the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum and the California Palace
of the Legion of Honor)
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. (both galleries are part of the Smithsonian
Institution and both are also known as The National Museum of Asian Art
for the United States)
- Harvard University Art
Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C. (part of the Smithsonian Institution)
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,
Boston
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- Museum of
Depressionist Art (no, "depressionism" isn't a real art period.
This is just a fun site.)
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New
York
- Museum of Bad Art (MoBA)
(funny, but real)
- National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- National Portrait Gallery (part
of the Smithsonian)
- New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Portland Art Museum
- Salvador Dali Museum,
St. Petersburg, Florida
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Seattle Art Museum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C. (also known as the National Museum of American Art)
- Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
- St. Louis Art Museum
- Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis
- Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York
International Museums
- Acropolis
Museum, Athens
- Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
- Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology,
Oxford, England
- Borghese
Gallery, Rome
- British Museum,
London
- Egyptian Museum,
Berlin (Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museeun
zu Berlin-Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Egyptian Museum,
Berlin
- Louvre, Paris
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Musée Claude
Monet, Giverny, France
- Musée d'Art
Contemporain de Montréal
- Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- National
Archaeological Museum, Athens
- National Gallery of Canada
- National Gallery, London
- Pergamon Museum,
Berlin
- Picture Gallery
(Gemäldegalerie), Berlin
- Prado, Madrid
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Rembrandt,
Vermeer, Hals, and other Dutch painters)
- Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
- Tate Gallery, London
- Uffizi Gallery,
Florence (also try the Virtual
Uffizi site)
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
- Vatican
Museums, Vatican City, Rome
Art Periods and Styles
Ancient
- Ancient Sites (click on
the symbol for Rome and get a virtual reality fly-through of the reconstructed
Roman Forum. Other reconstructions include the Acropolis in Athens and
King Djoser's Step Pyramid)
- The Atrium (good site
for all things classical: features include "This Day in Ancient History,"
and "The Ancient World on Television," which is updated weekly
to let you know what programs dealing with the ancient world are on A&E,
History Channel, TLC, Discovery, etc.)
- Diotima ("materials
for the study of women and gender in the ancient world")
- The George
Ortiz Collection (many different ancient cultures' art works are represented
at this site)
- Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook (excellent site that breaks down into Egypt,
Ancient Near East, Greece, etc.; links to original texts and documents,
as well as other web sites and information)
- Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World (check out the cross-section of Khufu's pyramid at Giza)
- Seven Wonders of the
Ancient World (not the same site as the one above; both sites are good)
Prehistoric:
Egyptian:
Ancient Near East/Mesopotamia:
Minoan/Mycenaean:
Greek:
Roman:
Middle Ages
- The Ecole Initiative
(VERY comprehensive listing of Judeo-Christian, as well as classical, figures;
click on a name and see his/her images in art)
- Internet Medievel
Sourcebook [like the "Internet Ancient Sourcebook" listed
above, this site gives you links to original (translated to English) documents
from the Early Christian period through the Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic
and even Renaissance periods; excellent site]
Early Christian and Early Medieval:
Byzantine:
Romanesque:
Gothic:
Renaissance and Baroque
Renaissance:
Baroque:
18th and 19th Centuries
General 18th/19th Century Art:
Romanticism:
Realism:
Impressionism:
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood:
Modern
Modern Art/Misc.:
Post-Impressionism:
20th Century Art/General:
- the-artists.org (site devoted
to 20th century and contemporary art and artists, organized by movement,
media or alphabetically. Also has good research links and an art store.)
- Kunstbar (funny
Flash animation that references many famous artists and works of art, mostly
from the 20th century)
Fauvism:
Cubism:
Dada:
Expressionism:
Futurism:
Surrealism:
Abstract Expressionism:
Pop Art:
Contemporary Art:
- Art in Cities (fun site,
with photographs taken by everyday people of graffiti art and other public
markings in cities around the world...just click on the interactive map
to go the city whose art you want to see.)
- Banksy (called an "art
terrorist" by some, this British artist, and tagger, makes works of
art, smuggles them into major museums, secretly attaches them to the wall
with an official looking description card next to it, then waits to see
how long the curators will take to notice the hoax. Sometimes it takes
days. And he photographs the museum wall with his own art work on it. Great
stuff. From his home page, click on "indoors" and then scroll
through the pages for his museum "art attacks.")
- Heather Marx Gallery
(My sister and I went to high school with Heather. She now owns a gallery
in San Francisco that features up and coming, as well as established, contemporary
artists.)
- Seward Johnson (very
lifelike bronze sculptures)
- Spencer Tunick (contemporary
photographer who takes pictures of public places filled with LOTS of naked
people. He's been written up in Time and Newsweek. The photos are strange
and beautiful at the same time. There's a page where you can sign up to
be in his next shoot!)
Non-Western
African:
Asian:
Indian:
Mesoamerican:
Photography
Architecture
Art Research and Resources
Art Associations and Organizations
Art Prints and Posters for Sale
Research Sites
- AICT ("Art Images
for College Teaching"; good collection of images from ancient to modern,
western and non-western)
- AMICO (Art Museum Image COnsortium;
promotes the "educational use of museum multimedia.")
- Art-A-GoGo (fun, simple approach
to art history with a good link to a "Careers in Art History"
book.)
- ArtCrime (includes
stories of the ways some people vandalize art, such as a Chinese pair who
peed on Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain.")
- ArtCyclopedia (good search
engine and list of links for artists, movements, etc.)
- ArtDaily (latest news from the
art world.)
- Art History Network Home Page
- Art History Resources
on the Web (good set of links, categorized by period/culture, maintained
by Dr. Witcombe at Sweet Briar College)
- Art History
from About.com (general art history site that covers many periods)
- ArtLex (online art dictionary
with illustrations and examples)
- The Art Loss Register (the largest
database of lost and missing works of art in the world)
- Art
Movements and Periods (simple definitions for the major periods.)
- ArtNews Magazine Online
- The Art Newspaper.com
(up to the minute reporting on art related news around the world; sections
include archaeology, conservation, the art market and more.)
- ArtOnline (general resource
for both western and non-western art and archaeology)
- ArtSource
(general art resources)
- ArtStor
(their Art History Survey Collection includes scans of over 4,000 images
found in most art history texts. Plus, their larger collection of images
is amazing, too!)
- AskArt (information on American
artists and periods, good source for prices paid for American art at auctions)
- Athena Review (Journal of Archaeology,
History and Exploration)
- Bridgeman Art Library
(comprehensive source of images on the internet)
- Careers for Art Historians
- Carol Gerten's Fine Art
(CGFA)/A Virtual Art Museum (good source for information on individual
artists.)
- Constable.net (artist's
quotes and a good timeline)
- Corsair (online research
resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York; good collection of
medieval and Renaissance manuscripts)
- Decorative Arts and
Material Culture (site from the University of Wisconsin at Madison:
concentrates on furniture, ceramics, glass, photography and architecture,
mostly from the U.S.)
- Ditto.com (search engine that looks
for images/thumbnails on the web! Type in an artist's name and see what
pops up.)
- Getty Research Institute
- International Directory
of Art Libraries [part of the IFLA website (International Federation
of Library Associations and Institutions)]
- Loggia (arts and humanites page,
nicely designed with reference links and artist bios)
- Mark Harden's Artchive
(good source for information on individual artists.)
- Metropolitan Museum
of Art's Timeline of Art History (a work in progress, but very interesting)
- Mother of All Art
and Art History Links (links to research sites, museums, image storehouses,
art history departments, fine art schools, etc.)
- New York
Times (their Art and Design section; late-breaking art news)
- Orazio Centaro's Art Images
on the Web (OCAIW) (good site for artist information.)
- Smart-Ass Guide to Art
(funny, but informative. Good anecdotes about artists.)
- Union
List of Artist Names (ULAN) (type in an artist's name and get all of
the variations and mutations of that name...good for research purposes.
Site is maintained by the Getty Museum.)
- Vatican
Library
- Virtual Museum
of Art (categories include artists, sorted by nationality, as well
as sculpture, photography, etc.)
- Voice of the Shuttle/Art
& Art History (site maintained by UC Santa Barbara students; exhuastive
and well-organized link of everything art-related)
- Web Gallery of Art (excellent
site with images from European art from the 12th to the mid-19th centuries.
Nicely organized with a good artists index.)
- WebMuseum (great source with
descriptions and bios on all sorts of artists and periods.)
- What
is a Print? (great Flash animation from the Museum of Modern Art in
New York that shows the process behind various graphic art techniques:
woodcuts, etching, lithography and screenprinting.)
- Words
of Art (art dictionary)
- World
Wide Art Resources (search for links by period/style; other links to
non-historical aspects of art.)
Palomar College Art Dept.
and Student Websites