Today's Date: Friday March 19, 2010
Links & Resources
www.artnewsonline.com
- You can read current and back issues as well as find links to galleries and
auction houses -i.e. Christies
www.artchive.com/core.html - Lots
of good links
wwol.inre.asu.edu - "The World's Women
on-line"
www.si.edu - Link to all of the museums that
make up the Smithsonian Institution
www.nationalgeographic.com - Some
interactive tours of prehistoric sites
www.nga.gov - This is the National Gallery of
Art in D.C.
www.nmwa.org - National Museum of Women Artists
sunsite.unc.edu/cjackson/featured.htm
- Famous artists search list. In alphabetical order with a bio and a description
of images
www.artsednet.getty.edu - The Getty
in L.A.
www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother
- The "mother of all Art History link pages"
witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
- Art History Resources on the Web
http://coloquio.com/index.html -
A Who's who in the Hispanic world - lots of info on art
http://museumnetwork.com - Explores 33,000
museums worldwide
http://wwar.com/museums.html - Lists
museums worldwide
http://www.imj.org.il/index.html
- The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, a virtual dig
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/world/egypt/egypt.html
- The Egyptian Collection but you can visit their Greek collection as well by
changing the words Egypt to Greece
http://metmueum.org - the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in NYC
http://www.nativepeoples.com - Art
of the Americas
http://ww.Kimbellart.org/database/index.cfm
- Aztec, Maya, Zapotec images and descriptions (available
in Spanish)
http://www.upenn.edu/museum/moche/html
- Moche site
http://www.islam.org/culture/MOSQUES/Europe/TMp105.htm
- The Great Mosque at Cordoba in Spain and others
http://www.lacma.org/art/perm
col /ancient/ancient.htm - LA County Art Museum, tour for the Islamic collection
and visit other cultures as well in their collection - Especially their Indian
and Japanese
http://www.buddhanet.net/mudras.htm
- Explains and displays the mudras - the hand positions seen on Buddha figures
http://www.marcu.fink.dk/vietnam/templesfs.html
- Beautiful images of Vietnamese temples
http:// www.npm.gov.tw/index.html
- The National Palace Museum in Taiwan. (Opens in Chinese
but is available in English and Spanish).
http://china-ezl.silversands.net/dunhuang.html
- explore the art and artifacts from the provinces of China
http://sorrel.humbolt.edu/~rwjl/afr.html
- An African Art index
http://www.arts.ucla.edu/fowler/Collections/collect.htm
- The entire African collection at UCLA
http://www.doaks.org/byzart.REB.html
- Dunbarton Oaks a premier Byzantine Art site
http://www.mcu.es/prado/index
eng.html - The Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Search by individual artist
i.e. Bosch, Goya, Velazquez (available in Spanish)
http://www.televisual.it/uffizi/indice.html
- Early Italian Renaissance and more
http://www.iuoart.org - The Dutch University
Institute for Art History in Florence, Italy - Dutch, Italian and Flemish Art
http://www.sparcmurals.org/present/cmt/cmt.html
- Chicano murals in L.A. Sponsored by SPARC
http://www.saztv.com - Famous art thefts -but
don't get any ideas!