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 had.) 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'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
Chicago's Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum
Faith Ringgold
Maya Ying Lin
The Viet Nam Veteren's Memorial
Maya Ying Lin's The Confluence Project


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

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

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

Early Photography and Realism Sites on the Web
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

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

Proto-Renaissance 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
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

Plague

Renaissance Art

Background:
Florence Cathedral (The Duomo), 1296-1378
Altarpieces Definition
Plague

Masaccio
Virtual tour of the Scrovegni Chapel, including Giotto's frescos

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

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

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)

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


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

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

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer in Art History
Project Gutenberg: Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer

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

Seventeenth Century Art

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)

Writing Guides and Dictionaries:

A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Modern Language Association (MLA Documentation:http://cctc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml

Webster's Dictionary on the web: http://www.Merriam-Webster.com
On-line access to numerous references, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, at Great Books Online Bartlelby.com
http:www.libraryspot.com hosts numerous links to on-line reference works.
 


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