Art Resources on the Web - Art History Projects
above: Max Ernst, "Ubu Imperator" 1923-24.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
- American Art Inventories at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Art History Resources on the Web
- Art History Timeline (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Art Inventories Catalog
Over 400,000 Artworks from public and private collections from the National Museum of American Art, including the Inventory of American Paintings executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture. - Basilicas and Papal Chapels. Virtual tours of the Sistine Chapel, Saint Peter, the Pauline Chapel, etc.
- Beazley Archive: Resource for Greek pottery
- Dada - nihilistic movement in the arts that flourished in the early 20th
century.
Diotima - Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient - Digital Roman Forum a digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity (created by the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory)
- Dutch University Institute for Art History (DUIA ) in Florence
- Getty
Thesaurus of Geographical Names (TGN)
: a structured vocabulary
developed primarily for the field of art history. Geographic names from the thesaurus can be
used to record the current location of the art object, its place of origin, the loci of activity of
the artist, and the sites of the artist’s birth and death. The TGN is hierarchical and global in scope. - Getty
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)
can be used as an authority file for all
of the associated data relating to a particular artist or architect, including variant names,
biographical information, and bibliographic citations. - Getty
Provenance Index gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files,
the Getty Provenance Index provides scholars and museum curators with important information
about the history of taste and collecting. - International
Dada Archive at the University of Iowa Libraries, including finding aids,
bibliographies, brief biographical notes, links. - Iter:
Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
An online index ofjournal articles and books - LacusCurtius: A Gateway Into the Roman World Includes, among other things: the Roman Gazetteer (a photo album of Roman towns and monuments); Greek and Latin texts (some also in English); and Platner’s work (with Ashby’s 1929 revisions) “A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome”.
- Modernism Timeline from the Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Mother of All Art History Links Pages http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother
- On-line Picasso Project
- Perseus Project http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/perseus "A multimedia library of Archaic and Classical Greek literature, history, art, and archaeology. Pictures of ancient ruins, antique art, full texts of Classical works and plays, and much more." Also includes the Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (click link to Classics, then alphabetically under Secondary Sources) and other reference books.
- Plan of Rome The Centre for Research in Social Sciences provides this virtual reconstruction of Le Plan de Rome. Representing most of the city at the beginning of the fourth century, the plaster model relief plan of about 70 square meters was created by architect Paul Bigot (1870-1942).
- Sites & Photos over 80,000 high resolution digital photographs and more than 22 hours of digital videos of hundreds of archaeological sites from all historical periods.
- Vincent Van Gogh, The Letters
902 letters to and from Vincent Van Gogh, annotated, illustrated, and translated.
