General History of Art Web Portals & Gateways
TASI: review of search engines: a useful guide to current web search engines available for image searches including alltheweb; AltaVista; AOL; Ask; Ditto; Exalead; Google; LiveSearch; Lycos; Picsearch; Pixy; Yahoo.
Timeline of Art History provides an overview of the cultural and historical context of the history of art as illustrated and represented in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art History web book combines images with audio and videos. You can sort through images by time period, style and artist and find the information that you want. The site founders are Beth Harris, Director of Digital Learning at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and Steven Zucker, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the Fashion Institute of Technology, part of the State University of New York.
Periods of Art History provides useful introductions to the historical periods of the discipline.
The Dictionary of Art Historians A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art.
A guide to art history research on the internet prepared by Jim Elkins, with special thanks to Marcy Neth & Holly Stec Dankert.
ARTstor is a high resolution digital image repository for use in higher education and scholarship. The digital library of approximately 550,000 images covers the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. It is made available to University College Cork through the Irish Research eLibrary (IReL). This is an initiative developed by the CHIU Librarians' Group and funded by the HEA and SFI to significantly increase the availability to Irish university libraries of a wide range of electronic resources.
Architecture Online This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more.
ADAM an acronym for the Art, Design, Architecture & Media Information Gateway.
ArtSource a comprehensive collection of links to sites of interest to historians of art and architecture.
Art History Resources on the Web an in-depth hyperlinked lists divided by period and maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, Virginia.
ART-Guide provides access to art history websites, such as subject gateways, image databases, search engines, or mailing lists. The collection covers the full range of European medieval, modern, and contemporary art history, and Aesthetics. The selected websites are checked for their scientific relevance and recorded following library standards. The collection of art history websites is updated frequently by linkcheckers.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
BUBL Link an extensive list and well organised gateway to sites in the UK and abroad.
CELT Resources (Corpus of Electronic Texts) a digital project coordinated by Department of History, University College Cork featuring portals and gateways on textual and image databases of Irish historical and cultural interest.
Design Council Slide Collection The emphasis is mainly upon British design in the postwar period up to 1990, but there are also many images illustrating examples of design from other countries and earlier periods.
DRAPIer an interactive database of digital humanities projects created by third level institutions on the island of Ireland. You can find projects of interest by searching for keywords or browsing by the facets listed on the right hand side of each page.
Great Buildings Online this gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds.
Google Scholar is a freely-accessible web search engine that indexes the full-text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.
The National Fine Art Education Digital Collection Fineart.ac.uk is a prototype for a national web-based collection of work by staff and students of UK higher education institutions who have made a significant contribution to UK fine art education through practice.
Virtual Library museums pages an online museum directory, part of the Virtual Library, an expert-run catalog of sections of the web. The Virtual Library musuems pages (VLmp).
VADS (Visual Arts Data Services) a portal to British institutional image collections.
VoS: Art History Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine (comprehensive list of links to image archives and museum websites searchable by artist name, title, and location).
Web Gallery of Art the Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 17.300 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available.
WorldArt Web Kiosk provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project.
Wikipedia Visual Arts Portal is a useful resource for copyright cleared images.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: History of Art a collection of links relating to art history and computer applications in art history.
Yahoo: Art History provides annotated links in multiple categories.
Select History of Art Web Portals & Gateways
Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC): web portal for medieval manuscript holdings of the Episcopal and Cathedral Library Cologne, Germany.
The Catholic Encyclopedia: an excellent source for religious art history topics; the project is still in progress.
Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources (University of Victoria, Canada).
Encyclopaedia Mythica: an award-winning internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion, including sections on Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology.
Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Definitions of art and architectural terms.
Perseus: Greco-Roman the Perseus Classics collection integrates textual and visual materials on the Archaic and Classical Greek world and the Roman world. The collection contains extensive and diverse resources including primary and secondary texts, site plans, digital images, and maps. Art and archaeology catalogues document a wide range of objects.
The Glory of Byzantium the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s The Glory of Byzantium includes many images from the MMA's collection and can be accessed in a number of ways. You can explore Byzantine works of art, investigate a theme in Byzantine art, and probe the history of Byzantium. You can also view the works of art in a visual timeline.
Ravenna Monuments Dynamic Images this website provides 360 degree dynamic panoramas of the historic early Christian basilicas of Ravenna, Italy. All images are zoom-enabled. Manipulate the images by dragging your cursor over them.
Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture the glossary is a searchable database of illustrated architectural terms and styles.
Medieval Manuscripts on the Web a resource portal compiled by Albert Masters, University of Toronto.
The Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) website gives access to high resolution digital images of medieval codices in the Abbey Library of St Gallen in Switzerland..
Amiens Cathedral Project at Columbia University. A multimedia project that provides computer generated images of Amiens Cathedral.
Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry: The pictures in this directory are from the calendar section of the Tres Riches Heures.
The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is an evolving electronic archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture coordinated by the Courtauld Institute, London.
ItalyGuides offers you a rich collection of more than 200 virtual panoramas of Italy's most famous city monuments.
Investigating the Renaissance this interesting Harvard University Art Museum site uses digital imaging techniques to examine three Renaissance paintings. The site explains and demonstrates how Infrared light, ultraviolet light and X-rays can provide valuable information on a painting's condition, on earlier stages of its production, and on later alterations.
The Digital Michelangelo Project researchers from Stanford University and the University of Washington are attempting to advance the technology of 3D scanning and place this technology in the service of the humanities by creating a long-term digital archive of some important cultural artefacts.
Vatican Museums, Vatican City this site offers online tours of the collections of art and antiquities at the Vatican museums. Collections include the Gregorian Egyptian and Etruscan Museums, Raphael's Rooms, the Pinacoteca (Art Gallery), and the Ethnological Missionary Museum. Visitors can examine various rooms in the Vatican, including the Sistine Chapel. Visitors may also take a virtual tour of each room.
NICE Paintings : This groundbreaking research project designed to gather and present information about Britain's public art collections.
American Photographs: The First Century the Smithsonian American Art Museum offers a broad selection of photographs, and the images include Civil War images by George Barnard and the Mathew Brady Studio, and western landscapes by Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson.
Albumen: albumen photographs history, science and preservation presenting the art and science of albumen printing, this site brings together 19th Century technical instruction, contemporary research, an online forum for conservation treatment and a
Art in Context is an online reference library for the publication and dissemination of information about contemporary artists and where to find their work.
Artists.org is a site presenting information about the major 20th Century and contemporary visual artists with portraits, dates and places of birth and death links to resources.
Crossings: electronic journal of art and technology: Crossings is a peer reviewed multidisciplinary academic journal that aims to explore the areas where technology and art intersect.
Culture Lab based at Newcastle, promotes socially and economically valuable synergies with artists, creative industries, and cultural and scientific institutions, and the development of innovative research with digital tools.
DAM- Digital Art Museum includes a useful technology timeline.
Digital Consciousness a public database of contemporary art. The art and biographies of emerging and established artists are exhibited through galleries and artist pages.
European artists, a databank European-art.net provides information on artists, their activities, presentations in museums or galleries as well as photos and texts.
oVid database of experimental film and video art.
Online Picasso Project: biography, paintings, sculptures and writings.
PostMedia maintains an archive of work by contemporary artists since 1995, with commentary.
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a leading non-profit resource for video art and interactive media.
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts has set the goal for itself of promoting the wide development, application and distribution of, and reflection on new technologies in the visual arts.
VDB: video data bank : An American resource for videotapes by and about contemporary artists.
Russian Art & Culture: The best reviews, articles and news on Russian art, related exhibitions and interesting cultural events in the UK.
