Art HIstory Online

A Comprehensive List of Top Art History Websites

Histoire de l'art/Historia del arte

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Art Periods


PRE-HISTORIC ART
ANCIENT ART
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART
ANCIENT GREEK
ANCIENT NEAR EAST ANCIENT ROMAN
ETRUSCAN ART
ISLAMIC ART
MIDDLE AGES BYZANTINE ART
GOTHIC ART
RENAISSANCE ART
BAROQUE ART
BAROQUE ART
I8th CENTURY ART
ROCOCCO ART
19th CENTURY ART
20th CENTURY ART
CHINESE ART
JAPANESE ART
SOUTH-EAST ASIA, ASIA
OCEANIC ART
AFRICAN ART
INDIA

Styles, arranged alphabetically


Art Nouveau/Art Deco
Ancient art
Baroque Conceptualism
Cubism Dada
Expressionism Futurism
Impressionism Medieval
Minimalism Modernism
Pop Art Post Modernism
Pre-Rhaphaelites Renaissance
Rococo Romanticism
Russian Art Surrealism
Symbolism Victorian Art
See also: Country Index

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Architecture Artists Art Periods
Directories Historians Journals
Iconography Manuscripts Painting
Conservation
Archaeology
Curating


Art period timelines, reference websites:


Art Movements Directory (UK)

A History of the World in 100 Objects
This site uses objects to tell a history of the world. You will find 100 objects from the British Museum and hundreds more from museums and people across the UK.

Art history timeline from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Essential Humanities
Concise overviews of major stylistic periods in visual art and music.

European painting by historical period. LACMA

History of European art. The Web Museum

Kunstpedia.com
Kunstpedia is a database with articles on the fine and decorative arts, with the exception of contemporary art. The basis of Kunstpedia.com is formed by a diversity of articles in Dutch and English, which have been posted by art historians, collectors, art  galleries, antique dealers and museums. Contributors include the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Hermitage Amsterdam, Milwaukee Art Museum, The Royal Collection Buckingham Palace and the Seattle Art Museum.

SmartHistory
Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.

The World History of Art
The History of Civilization and culture

Google news timeline, with back issues of Time magazine along with the Wikipedia events timeline.
Browse by decade or click on year and month.

INDEX

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African art history   See also: Africa

African art history resources on the web.
A comprehensive web index by Chris Witcombe.

G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture
This site is a research resource designed to make these photographs available to people who have a personal or professional interest in the art of Southeastern Nigeria.

Alternative careers for art historians.

Ancient art resources

See also: Ancient Art
Ancient art web sites from The Ancient History Sourebook.

Ancient documents.
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford. Mesopotanian, (Sumerian, Akkadian), Aramaic, Hebrew, Syrian, Palestine, Hittite, Egyptian, West Semitic ( Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew), Greek documents.
Archaeology
See also: Archaeology
Abila Archaeological Project, Jordan.

American Journal of Archaeology
Journal of the Archaeological Institute of America

Archaeology Magazine
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Art historians, art historian websites

Alberti's Window: An Art History Blog

Alternative careers for art historians.

AHAI Association des Historiens de l'Art Italien

Art History Newsletter

Beresnon, Bernard. Bernard Berenson, Wikipedia entry.

Blunt, Anthony. Anthony Blunt. Wikipedia entry.

Burkhardt, Jacob. The Civilization of Renaissancein Italy. Full text.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students.

Dictionary of art historians. Duke University
A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. A free, copyrighted scholarly database for the use of researchers, students and the public.

Gombrich, Ernst. Ernst Gombrich
The Gombrich Archive

Ernst Gombrich
Wikipedia entry.

Historians, art historians.
Biographical dictionary of art historians, art scholars, museum directors. From Duke University.

INHA Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

Longhi, Roberto. Roberto Longhi. Wikipedia

Fondazione di Studi di Storia dell'Arte Roberto Longhi

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Edward Lucie-Smith homepage.

Panofsky, Erwin, Erwin Panofsky, Wikipedia entry.

Pater, Walter. Walter Pater etexts.

Robert A. Baron
Essays and publications in intellectual property with respect to art history, museology, image resources and computerization.

Schama, Simon. Simon Schama. Faculty Directory, Columbia University.
University art history departments
University art history departments on the internet.
WWW Virtual Library
Art History Departments Around the World - A Sampling

Art historians. Dictionary of art historians.
Duke University
Wikipedia entry on art historians.

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim. Johann Joachim Winkelmann
Project Gutenburg texts. Gedancken uber die Nachahmung der Griechischen Wercke in der Mahlerey und Bildhauer-Kunst

Wolfflin, Heinrich. Heinrich Wolfflin, Wikipedia entry.

Art history archives, databases, directories and organisations

AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium)
A not-for-profit organization of nearly 30 institutions with art collections, AMICO has created a digital library of images and documentation.

The Art History Browser
Annotated links. Prehistoric to Early Medieval

Art historians. Dictionary of art historians. Duke University.

Arthistory.CC.
A large online gallery containing 1800 artworks, with artists' biographies and information about their work. Arthistory.CC also has a timeline where you can explore the history of art. There are also an art dictionary and a search-engine for all pages. Totally, can you review 1800 works of art.

Arthistoricum.net
A collaboration between a number of German research institutes, arthistoricum.net is a comprehensive bilingual (English and German) gateway to European Art History resources on the Internet.

Art History Research Centre (AHRC)
The Art History Research Centre is a foremost tool to facilitate art historical research as well as other arts research on the internet.
Links, periodicals, libraries, art history newsgroups, art history search engines, internet resources.

Art History Resources on the Web, by Chris Witcombe.
An extensive Art History Link Directory.

Art History Resources on the Internet (ARTHLINKS).
Prehistoric through to modern. Research sources, museums and galleries. Includes photography. From Sweet Briars College, Virginia, U.S.

Art History Webmasters Association

Artists
Alphabetical index of artists through the ages, from The Open Directory Project.

Artists on art.
A selection of artists' writing on art. From Constable.net.

Art Millenium
This art encyclopedia contains pictures, biographies of many artists, along with style descriptions and art periods from Paleolithic to contemporary art.

Art Odyssey
A research library for art historians and artists. Seach websites under historical period, country, artist and medium.

Bridgeman Art Library
Art, culture and history images. An international collection featuring works from more than 1000 museums, galleries and historical societies. The site includes a searchable database consisting of thumbnail images and documentation. By registering with Bridgeman, you will have instant access to more than 400,000 images.

Britannica Image Quest
Encyclopedia Britannica’s Image Quest opens one million rights-cleared digital images from top global picture libraries to educationEducational institutions and public libraries have access to more than one million digital images from more than 40 of the best global picture libraries. Fully rights-cleared for educational use, Image Quest brings together collections from many leading museums and libraries.

British Museum research
This website brings together material at the British Museum of interest to researchers.

Categories for the description of works of art.
Created by the Art Information Task Force (AITF), a group of art historians, museum curators and registrars, visual resource professionals, art librarians, information managers and technical specialists brought together by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the College Art Association.

Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
The international centre for the study of the history of art and conservation and also home to one of the finest small art museums in the world.

Enciclopedia dell'Arte:
Consulta on-line l'Enciclopedia dell'Arte con oltre 35.000 pittori, disegnatori e incisori dal X al XVIII.

Gombrich archive
The the online archive of art historian Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich.

The Khan Academy
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, they use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. They are seeking contributors-especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered. They welcome comments, feedback and corrections.

Journals

See also: Art Journals and Magazines

Lugts Repertoire online
Lugts Repertoire Online is an online database published by the Dutch publishing house IDC. It is a digitised collection of Frits Lugt's 'Repertoire des Catalogues de Ventes Publiques', featuring 3,000 complete catalogues, from 1600 to 1925.

Musee Achaemenide
The virtual Achaemenid museum is an interactive website focusing on the Achaemenid Empire, also known as the Persian Empire.

Oxford art online
The Oxford Art Online website hosts Grove Art Online, the online version of the Grove Dictionary of Art,

Pictures of Record
A publisher of archaeological iamges designed for educational and museum use.

Quotes
Art Quotes.net. Quotes by famous artists.

Rewind
The website for Rewind, an AHRC-funded project to "address the gap in historical knowledge of the evolution of electronic media arts in the UK". Rewind aims to research, archive and conserve master copies of artists' video in the 1970s and 1980s.

Scholars Resource
A commercial service within Scholars Resource offering visual materials to educational institutions throughout the world. The images cover art throughout the world, with special emphasis on western art from major European museums.

Society of Antiquaries of London
Founded in 1701, the Society's interests embrace all aspects of archaeology, architectural and art history, conservation, heraldry, anthropological, ecclesiastical, documentary, musical and linguistic study.

Spiro
The online catalog & image database of the College of Environmental Design Visual Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley.

Timeline of art history
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History spans the entire history of the visual arts from the Palaeolithic to the present day, across all continents and cultures.

Wikimedia Commons
is a media repository that is created and maintained not by paid-for artists, but by volunteers. Its name "Wikimedia Commons" is derived from that of the umbrella project "Wikimedia" managing all Wikimedia projects and from the plural noun "commons" as its contents are shared by different language versions and different kinds of Wikimedia projects. Thus it provides a central repository for freely licensed photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, and media of all sorts that are useful for any Wikimedia project.

Wikipedia. Wikibooks collection of open-content textbooks. Art History Project
Art Nouveau. A directory of art nouveau/art deco websites.

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