Art History Resources on the Internet
- ADAM
- Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information
Gateway; a service being developed to help locate
useful, quality-assured information on the Internet in
the following subject areas: Fine Art, Design,
Architecture, Applied Arts, Media, Theory, Museum Sties,
Professional Practice. ADAM is funded under the
Electronic Libraries Programme of the Joint Information
Systems Committee (JISC) of the UK Higher Education
Funding Councils.” (Based on creators’
description). Still very much under construction.
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- Art
History Research Centre
- The AHRC is a tool to facilitate art historical and other
arts research on the Internet. Includes:
- Newsgroups—Post your request for
information.
- Mailing Lists—Send email to lists of people
who share your interests.
- Library Catalogues—Search the catalogues of
libraries & bookstores.
- Article Indexes—Search for articles in
academic journals.
- Collections—Visit collections of digitised
art on the Internet.
- Other Resources—Other art history and
arts-related web servers.
- Citing Sources—Various styles for citing
electronic sources.
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- ArtSource
- A comprehensive collection of links to sites of interest
to historians of Art and Architecture. The site can be
very busy making it hard to reach and slow. Topics
covered by the site include:
- General Resources and Bibliographies
- Architecture Resources
- Art/architecture Libraries
- Art Journals On-line
- Artist’s Projects
- Electronic Exhibitions
- Events
- Image Collections
- Museum Information
- New Media
- Organisations
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- Gateway to
Art History
- Designed as a companion to Gardner's Art Through the
Ages published by Harcourt Brace, this site offers
an extensive collection of links to resources on the WWW.
The organisation of the site reflects the broad
chronological and thematic structure of the textbook it
supports allowing for easy navigation. While links were
obviously selected for their academic quality as well as
their relevance to the text there is sadly no commentary
on the sites included in this index. In many cases the
"Gateway" provides multiple links to the same
image collection according to the subject, for example
much of the section the Twentieth Century consists of
pointers to the sections of The WebMuseum.
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- The PartheNet
- Combined Internet Resources for Students of Art History.
Links organised by period, with a strong Western European
focus.
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- Histoire
de l'art - Art History - web Robert DEROME
- An important reference site for Art History on the
Web. Includes:
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Note: While these sites offer a large number of images some
are of variable quality and poorly documented.
- ArtServe
- Art and Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin.
This server offers access to over 16,000 images (NOT
available elsewhere) all concerned in some way with the
history of art and architecture. The main collections
are:
- European Prints: indexed by artist, subject, and
technique
- Classical Art: images of classical art &
architecture
- A Collection of Classics from the holdings of the
ANU Classics Museum
- Art Survey: the beginnings of a survey of Western
Art
- Megalithic!: images of Prehistoric Ritual
Monuments within the British Isles
- The Pergamon Altar
- The Palace of Diocletian at Split
- Hong Kong: contemporary architecture
- Classical Turkey: a brief tour of some of the
sites Classical sites in Turkey
- Islam: images of Islamic architecture
- A related service, Image Source, is available through the
site and includes: an electronic edition the reference
book, Essential Art History, by Paul Duro &
Michael Greenhalgh, Art History tutorials (under
construction), Texts for Art Historians (a collection of
works on or by art and artists). The site also includes
links to student projects on a variety of art historical,
architectural, and archaeological topics.
- NOTE: The site owners have recently
begun to charge for access to the full size images
although the thumbnails are still freely available.
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- Web
Gallery of Art
- A collection of over 1000 images intended to support
teaching as well as for entertainment. Currently the
exhibit focuses on European art from c. 1300 to c.1600
with its main emphasis on painting. The gallery includes
works by 248 known artists from Pieter Aertsen to
Francisco de Zurbarán and a further 19 anonymous
painters.
- Each image in the list is presented as a thumbnail which
leads to the full image. Brief details of provenance and
physical form are included and some images are
accompanied by a brief comment. The dimensions and
colour-depth of the electronic image are also given in
the listing, along with the size which is useful for
estimating the time it takes to access the image. The
quality of the images throughout is high. A search
facility is available, although the information
catalogued for each image is less than comprehensive.
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- The WebMuseum (formerly Le WebLouvre)
- One of the oldest and perhaps the best known virtual
museum. Includes digital images of many "great
works". Collection organised by period with a strong
Western bias, although a section on Japanese art is
available.
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- Academic Press Image
Directory
- A commercial subscription service that boasts
100,000 images from 95 museums and collections. A search
interface is available so potential subscribers are able
to examine the range of holdings and thoroughness of the
cataloguing.
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Themed Exhibits and Collections
- DIVA
- Digital Images from the Visual Arts Library Monash
University. A gateway to Australian art, sculpture,
photography, and architecture. Includes exhibits from
selected artists, aboriginal art, and introductory
essays.
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- Hogarth
Reconsidered: William Hogarth and 18th-century Print
Culture
- An exhibition based on the main themes of Hogarth's
works. Also includes a technical section on the creation
of the prints.
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- National Museum of
American Art
- Images and text on almost 1000 pieces. Exhibitions
include:
- Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and their
New York
- Elihu Vedder’s Drawings for the Rubáiyát
- The Arvin Gottlieb Collection: Paintings from the
American Southwest
- Secrets of the Dark Chamber: The Art of the
American Daguerreotype
- Also an online edition of American Art,
featuring a selection of illustrated article abstracts,
full-length commentaries and Personal Selections, and
helpful indexes to the periodical's entire contents since
its inception in 1987.
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- Picasso
and Portraiture
- An exhibit of several Picasso portraits grouped by
subject. Apart from a brief introduction there is no
commentary.
- The William
Blake Archive
- Includes text and illuminations from Blake and his
circle. Searchable
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- The Rossetti
Archive
- The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel
Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive is a
hypermedia environment for studying the works of the
Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter D. G. Rossetti
(1828-1882). The archive is a structured database holding
digitised images of Rossetti’s works in their
original documentary forms. Rossetti’s poetical
manuscripts, early printed texts - including proofs and
first editions - as well as his drawings and paintings
are stored in the archive, in full colour as needed. The
materials are marked up for electronic search and
analysis, and they are supplied with full scholarly
annotations and notes. (based on creators’
description)[Can be very slow]
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- Thais:
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture
- This collection of over 600 photographs (mostly black and
white) of sculptures by more than 150 artists. The number
of pieces varies considerably with Bernini's work
represented by sixteen images. As well as selecting the
work of a particular sculptor users can select images
according to chronology (Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance,
Mannerist, Baroque, Modern). A location index retrieves
images taken from 78 locations across Italy and the
world; the Italian locations are also accessible from a
clickable map. Florence and Rome get their own exhibition
space allowing users to select which institution to
investigate. (There is little information about each
picture beyond subject, date, location, and sculptor. In
lieu of photographic details an email address is given
for the photographer.)
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- Tiepolo
Virtual Picture Gallery
- A selection of images from several Venetian galleries.
Navigation information is in English, but accompanying
texts remain in Italian.
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- Barbarians
on the Greek Periphery? Origins of Celtic Art
- A richly illustrated hypertext doctoral dissertation.
This linked collection of online essays allows
sophisticated browsing with multiple windows and
navigation aids.
- The site uses Javascript code that may not work on
all browsers.
- a.k.a. Getty
Information Institute Database Searcher
- This system allows you to search simultaneously thousands
of records from several Getty databases.
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- International Repertory of the Literature of Art
(RILA), published between 1975 and 1989, it
abstracts worldwide literature on Western art in
all media from late antiquity to the present
- Provenance Sale Catalogue Database, British sale
catalogues from 1801 to 1825
- Provenance Sale Contents Database, dedicated to
the paintings listed in the sale catalogues, can
be searched by artist’s name, title, seller,
price, buyer, etc.
- a.k.a. uses the Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT)
and the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) vocabularies to
enhance searches.
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- Bildarchiv Foto
Marburg: Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für
Kunstgeschichte
- A searchable catalogue of over one million pictures held
in institutions across Germany. Searches can be conducted
for keywords, title, artist, place, style, period,
subject, method, etc. Searches return a textual
description.
Related Online Resources
- Vasari
Lives of the Artists
- A rather crude electronic copy of Vasari's text. Without
proper citations or textual notes.
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- Introduction
to Imaging
- Issues in Constructing an Image Database, by Howard
Besser and Jennifer Trant. (1995)
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- Vision and
Art Tutorial
- A tutorial to demonstrate how visual information is used
in art.
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- ICONCLASS
- A language for the description of western European
iconography organised into a a hierarchical decimal
system. Current implementations allow complex searches to
be constructed on the content of images (as described by
ICONCLASS).
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- DISKUS
- Numerous German museums, archives, offices for the
preservation of historical monuments, research institutes
and university institutes are co-operating in compiling a
database of art in Germany. This project is called DISKUS
(Digitales Informations-System für Kunst- und
Sozialgeschichte). Under the joint editorship of
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg and Computer & Letteren
(Utrecht University), selections from this database have
being made available on CD-ROM. The works of art on the
CD-ROMs were documented with MIDAS, the "Marburger
Informations-, Dokumentations- und
Administrations-System". They can be searched and
found in many user-friendly ways. Unique is the very
comprehensive iconographic indexing (ICONCLASS), enabling
searches for the subject matter of the depictions, and
the possibility to search all fields of the MIDAS-system
separately. (adapted from publishers' description).
- The
Piero Project/ECIT - Electronic Compendium of Images and
Text
- A project to place art historical objects in their
original architectural context using three dimensional
simulation. The project focuses on Piero della
Francesca's Legend of the True Cross, painted
between 1452 and 1466, in the church of San Francesco in
Arezzo, Italy. Teaching applications of the database and
simulations have been developed.
- CHArt:
Computers and the History of Art
- The site includes information about CHArt, its
conferences and publications, this year’s CHArt
awards, the CHArt newsletter online and details of the
journal, Computers and the History of Art, including
tables of contents and online abstracts.
- The CHArt website also includes an extensive list of Art
History and related links.
- Detours
and Delays
- an Occasional Journal of Aesthetics and Politics
- Iconomania:
studies in visual culture
- A refereed electronic journal published by Art History
Graduate Students at the University of California, Los
Angeles
- Reading
in the Ruins
- Fragments of the Passagenwerk
- Winterthur
Portfolio
- A Journal of American Material Culture
- kritische
berichte
- Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften
Teaching and Student Projects
- Index
of Art History Courses on the Web
- Provides an extensive listing of courses with some
presence on the web. Saddly many offer merely
syllabi, reading lists, etc., but that do use the Web to
make available to students images, texts, and computer
mediated conferencing. There are even a few courses
that are run online.
The index provides a brief note on the content of each
site and warnings if access is restricted. Online
courses and the best sites are flagged.
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- Analysis
of Visual Images
- Art theory and history methodology applied to images.
Supplementary resources relevant to the subject Analysis
of the Visual Image which is offered as a
second-year elective in the Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts
and Bachelor of Education, Art courses at The University
of Newcastle Australia.
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- Art
History: A Preliminary Handbook
- An introduction for college students from then Department
of Fine Arts, Okanagan University College. Includes
advice on writing essays, etc.
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- Art Images
for College Teaching
- A collection of images, primarily architectural, to
support teaching. Images are organised by period and
theme. Accompanying references link the images to the
relevant pages of several U.S. college textbooks.
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- Gateway to
Art History
- A companion to the textbook Gardner's Art Through the
Ages published by Harcourt Brace
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- Web
Design & Construction
- Projects by credit students on Publishing Humanities
on the World Wide Web Australian National University
Second Semester, 1996. Including:
- Deborah ALDRIDGE on Klimt
- Vicki ANDERSON on Fractal Art
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