Art History Resources on the Web
General:
Art History Resources on the Web
Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / World Biographical Dictionary of Artists
ArtLex dictionary of visual art (Michael Delahunt)
Art History: A Preliminary Handbook (Robert Belton, Okanagan University College)
Art Historians : A Biographical Dictionary (Database Developed by Lee Sorensen, Duke University Library)
The Costume Gallery (Online Research Library for fashion and costume, maintained by Penny E. Dunlap Ladnier)
Digital Archive of Art , Online images from Boston College (Jeffery Howe)
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
European Architecture (Online Images)
The Getty with links to:
A Guide to the Description of Architectural Drawings
AAT (Art & Architecture Thesaurus)
Categories for the Description of Works of Art
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)
ULAN (Union List of Artist Names)
ICONCLASS, an iconographic classification system
The International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art (RIHA)
International Directory of Art Libraries\
Louvre's most famous paintings
Mother of All Art History Links Page
On Connoisseurship (Richard de Koster)
VAN EyCK (Visual Arts Network for the Exchange of Cultural Knowledge), an on-line database for the visual and applied arts
Women Artists in History (Wendy Murdock and Carrie Carolin)
Ancient Art:
Ancient Greek and Roman Myths Index
Perseus Project : A Digital Library on Ancient Greece (Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Tufts University) - Art and Archaeology , with access to:
Symbolic Messengers: Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins (Dr. Marshall Faintich)
Medieval Art:
Corsair, the online catalog of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
International Center for Medieval Art
Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture
Stitching Middeleeuwse Religieuze en Profane Insignes
Patron Saints Index (1473 topics / 3594 saints)
Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar (Marcos J. Montes)
The Liturgy of the Hours (the Divine Office)
Renaissance and Baroque Art:
Resources for Renaissance Art in Italy
Resources for Northern Renaissance Art
The Medici Archive Project, focusing on the Archive of the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1537-1743), housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, Italy
Villa I Tatti, Florence (The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (over 5000 paintings accessible through a Dutch language search engine: click on Zoeken = Search. Vervaardiger = Artist)
Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (Ambrosiana Archive, University of Notre Dame)
Investigating the Renaissance : Examining material aspects of three early Netherlandish paintings using digital imaging techniques, Ron Spronk (through Harvard University Art Museums )
Italian Renaissance Scrolls (layout technique based on a style of scrolls popular in Naples and Florence 1464-1500)
Netherlandish and Flemish Art (maintained by Irene Baldriga)
The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) focuses on Western and particularly Dutch visual art from the Late Middle Ages to the present day
The Warburg Institute, London
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Art:
18th Century Painting (online images)
Modern and Contemporary Art:
Conceptual and Intermedia Arts Online (CIAO)
An Introductory Guide to Research in Modern and Contemporary Art (prepared by Benjamin Lima)
American Art:
The Grand Tradition of Landscape (exhibition at Dickinson College)
American Architecture, 17th-20th centuries (online images)
W.P.A. - New Deal Art During the Great Depression
Photography
Resources in Photographic History
fotobibliografica, a virtual bibliography of monographs on key photographers of the past century (Claudio Vanin)
Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage (David Palmer)
A Thrill In The Dark: Victorian Magic Lantern Shows
Asian Art:
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive (Ohio State University)