• Timeline of Art History, through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 20,000 - 8000 B.C.
  • 8000 - 2000 B.C.
  • 2000 - 1000 B.C.
  • 1,000 B.C. - 1 A.D.
  • 1 - 500 A.D.
  • 500 - 1000 A.D.
  • 1100 - 1400 A.D.
  • 1400 - 1600 A.D.
  • 1600 - 1800 A.D.
  • 1800 - 1900 A.D.
  • 1900 - 2000 A.D.
• Art Movements Directory

  Abstract Expressionism Expressionism Neo-Expressionism Ancient & Classical Art Fauvism Op-Art Art Deco Fluxus Pop Art Art Nouveau Futurism Post-Impressionism Arts & Crafts Movement Group of Seven

  Post-Modernism Ashcan School Harlem Renaissance Pre-Raphaelites Baroque Hudson River School Realism Bauhaus Impressionism Renaissance Black Mountain College Indian River School Rococo Bloomsbury Group Mannerism

  Romanticism Constructivism Medieval & Gothic Art Situationism Cubism Minimalism Surrealism Dada Modernism Symbolism Der Blaue Reiter Nabis De Stijl Neo-Classical

• Art Movements (description and artists)

  Abstract Art Abstract Expressionism Art Deco Art Informel Art Nouveau Arts and Crafts Movement Ash Can School Barbizon School Baroque Bauhaus School Bolognese School Byzantine Camden Town Group Classicism Conceptual Art Conceptualism Constructivism Contemporary Realism Cubism Dadaism Dutch School English Landscape School Euston Road School Expressionism Fauvism Flemish School

  Florentine School Fluxus Gothic Heidelberg School Hudson River School Hyper-realism Impressionism Intimisme Kinetic Art Les Nabis Magic Realism Mannerism Minimalism Modernism Naive Art Neo-Expressionism Neoclassicism Neoplasticism Op Art Orientalism Orphism Parma School Photorealism Pictorialism Pop Art Post-Impressionism Post-Modernism Postmodernism

  Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Precisionism Purism Purism Realism Regionalism Renaissance Rococo Romanticism School of Paris Sienese School Social Realism Superrealism Suprematism Surrealism Symbolism Synchromism The Danube School of German Painting The Nazarenes The School of Paris Ukiyo-e Umbrian School Venetian School Vorticism

• Images of Alexander the Great (through Alexander the Great on the Web, edited by Tim Spalding)
  • Antiquity
  • Medieval
  • Renaissance to 20th Century
  • 20th Century
  • Maps
• Official Illustrations from the Art Gallery of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 (336 Engravings)
• Iconography of Ptolemy's Portrait (Robert Derome, Université du Québec à Montréal)
• Art of the First World War, 100 paintings from international collections to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the First World War, with a List of Painters
• Aquae Urbis Romae: the Waters of the City of Rome, a graphic investigation of the 2800 year history of water and urban development in Rome
• Bearing Walls: Monolithic Masonry Construction, and continued (Prof. Tony Webster, Columbia University)
• Modernism (essay by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe)
• The Goodall Family of Artists, beginning with Edward Goodall (1795-1870)
• World Heritage Cities of Spain, with links to
  • Ávila
  • Cáceres
  • Córdoba
  • Cuenca
  • Salamanca
  • Santiago de Compostela
  • Segovia
  • Toledo
• The Great Buildings Collection, architecture from around the world and across history, with a search engine, and links to alphabetical lists of:
  • Buildings
  • Architects
  • Architectural Types
  • Places
  • 3D Models of Great Buildings
• Vitruvio.ch Architecture on the Web
• Cities/Buildings Database (Meredith L. Clausen, University of Washington), organized initially by Nations
• The Architecture of Wales (exhibition of architectural drawings in the National Library of Wales)
• Symmetry and Pattern: The Art of Oriental Carpets (a collaborative project of The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, and The Math Forum, Swarthmore College), with links to:
  • About Symmetry and Pattern
  • Rug Gallery
  • About Oriental Carpets
• Iconografische Thema (Jaconelle Schuffel), with links to:
  • Alfabetische lijst van thema's
  • Klassiek | Religieus | Profaan | Allegorie
  • Sybillen
  • Zeven Vrije Kunsten
  • Justitia
• Eyes on Art (created by Tom March)
• Visual Communication Web Links (Dr. Paul Martin Lester, California State University, Fullerton)
• Art and Architecture of Venice: The vision and patronage of the Cornaro family (Carl Gable), with links to
  • Their palaces
  • Their chapels and church art
  • Their villas and castles
  • Their paintings
  • Their theaters
• Palazzi Veneziani (Jan-Christoph Rößler)
• Celebrating the Boar: The Boar in Art History (Michele Sawchuk)
• The Planets and Their Children - A Blockbook of Medieval Popular Astrology (Marianne Hansen)
• Shakespeare Illustrated (Harry Rusche, Emory University), with a list of artists
• Fine Arts in Hungary from the Beginning to the Mid 20th century
• Russian Art & Architecture
• Russian Art Gallery
• Russian Painting
  • Icons
  • 18th Century
  • 19th Century
  • 20th Century
• Russian Lubock (popular prints) (Alexander Boguslawski)
• Art of the Soviet Age 1930-1990 (Sergey Ivanov)
• French 19th-century cartoons (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
• Comics (King Features Syndicate)
• Comic Art at Princeton University. An Online Exhibition (The Princeton University Library Cartoon Collection), with links to:
  • Wiliam Hogarth (1697-1764)
  • George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
  • Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827)
  • James Gillray (1757-1815)
  • Caricature
  • Thomas Nast
  • Political Cartoons
  • Comic Strips
  • Magazine Gag Cartoons
  • Animation
• American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art (online exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

MISCELLANEOUS FOR ART HISTORIANS
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• Reconstructions (A non-profit organization dedicated to the development of free distribution of computer-generated reconstructions)
  • The Acropolis of Athens
  • The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I
  • The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III
  • Delight of Re: Solar Temple of Nuiserre
• The Hockney-Falco Thesis that certain elements in certain paintings made as early as c1430 were produced as a result of the artist using either concave mirrors or refractive lenses to project the images of objects illuminated by sunlight onto his board/canvas (David Hockney and Charles M. Falco)
• The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology
• Florida Highwaymen (twenty-six African-American artists)
• Early Visual Media (Thomas Weynants)
• Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal - a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that were created before 1946, and changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945)
• Commission for Looted Art in Europe
• The Joy of Shards mosaics resource (Rod Humby), including links to
  • The History of Mosaics
  • Virtual visits to mosaics
• Ancient Trade Routes (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History), with links to
  • The Silk and Spice Routes
  • The Incense Route
• Arms and Armor: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History)
  • Arms and Armor in Medieval Europe
  • Arms and Armor in Renaissance Europe
  • Famous Makers and European Centers of Arms and Armor Production
  • Feudalism and Knights
  • The Use and Function of Armor
• Olga's Gallery
  • Ancient Greek and Roman Myths Index
  • Christian Saints Index
  • New Testament Notes
  • Religion Notes Index
  • World Literature in Painting Notes Index
• Fountains in Rome (through Thais)
• Das Jerusalem Panorama Kreuzigung Christi in Altötting, Germany
• I Vangeli dei Popoli: The Word and Image of Christ in Culture and History (through The Vatican Library)
• Cut and Paste: A History of Photomontage (David Palmer)
• The Magic Mirror of Life: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura (Jack & Beverly Wilgus)
• W.P.A. - New Deal Art During the Great Depression (listed by state, including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands)
• Illinois Historical Art Project
• Freud Photo Library at the Freud Museum, London
• Notes on 'The Gaze' (Daniel Chandler)
• A History Of Angels In Western Thought (an essay by Richard Ebbs)
• Angels (through the Image Gallery at Christus Rex)
• Saints.SQPN.com (3,011 topics / 6,225 saints, beati and venerables)
• Calculation of the Ecclesiastical Calendar (Marcos J. Montes)
• The Liturgy of the Hours (also known as the Divine Office)
• The Gombrich Archive (Sir Ernst Gombrich, 1909-2001)
• Exploration of Underwater Archeological Sites (through Underwater Archaeology)
  • The English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean
  • Mediterranean Coastline
  • The Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria
  • Shipwrecks at Distant Shores
• Pottery Types Characteristic of the Various Archaeological Periods from the Chalcolithic to the Byzantine (through CenturyOne Foundation)
• Maps for Teaching (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
• "Forma Vrbis Romae", Map of Rome with significant Monuments created for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
• Obelisks of Rome (through Roberto Piperno’s Rome in the footsteps of an XVIIIth century traveller)
• Art Renewal Center (ARC)...committed to reviving standards of craftsmanship and excellence in the museums and art schools of today, with a link to The Museum with an alphabetical listing of artists and many images
• The White House Collection of American Crafts (online exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
• Great American Pin-Up (Pin-Up Art 1930-70)
• Art of Anamorphosis (Phillip Kent)
• Bibliotheca Alexandrina (the new Library of Alexandria, Egypt)
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt (translated by S.G.C. Middlemore, 1878)
• Dendrochronology (Tree-Ring Dating) of Panel Paintings (Peter Ian Kuniholm as Appendix X to W. Stanley Taft and James W. Mayer, The Science of Oil Painting)
• The artist org, modern and contemporary visual artists and art
• Entartete Kunst (in German), with a link to Entartete Bildende Kunst, Werke und Schicksale von Malern und Bildhauern
• Art History at Loggia, exploring art, art history, and artists
• Current and past exhibition reviews, and more (through Culturekiosque)
• Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art, with an Index (the site uses Real Audio to deliver the aural content)
• Russian Imperial Easter Eggs, with a selection of images (exhibition sponsored by A La Vieille Russie, antique dealers)
• Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World (Bruce Jones, University of California, San Diego), with links to:
  • Introduction
  • Four Important Periods in the History of the Book
  • The Rise of the University
  • The Development of Print Technology
  • Luther and the Protestant Reformation
  • The Rise of Vernacular Languages and Nation States and the Decline of the Roman Catholic Church.
  • Maps and Views of the New World
  • Summary
  • Bibliography
• The Interactive Nolli Map Website (The 1748 Map of Rome by Giambattista Nolli)
• Architectural Ornamentation from Around the World (free gifs, compliments of the Architectural Engineering Graduate Students Association of The Pennsylvania State University)
• Robert A. Baron: Arts Information Consultant, with a section on Copyright and Intellectual Property
• Mona Lisa Images in the Modern World (Robert A. Baron)
• Art Historians: A Biographical Dictionary (Database Developed by Lee Sorensen, Duke University Library)
• Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) (through Pegasos, under Authors' Calendar)
• Digits: An Art History Teacher's Practical Advice and Random Musings on New Technologies and the Classroom (William Allen)
• Women Artists in History (Wendy Murdock and Carrie Carolin)
• Women in Art (through mystudios.com)
• Women Artists, Self-Portraits & Representations of Womanhood from the Medieval Period to the Present (Patricia Lin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
  • The Medieval Period
  • The Fifteenth Century
  • Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries
  • Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries
  • Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries
  • Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries
  • Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
    • 1900-1940
    • 1940-1960
    • 1960-Present
• Works by Women (through the Gihon Foundation)
  • Mary Cassatt
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Janet Fish
  • Helen Frankenthaler
  • Dorothy Hood
  • Hermine Ford
  • Nancy Graves
  • Gael Stack
  • Lynda Benglis
  • Clyde Connell
  • Nancy Chambers
  • Mary McCleary
  • Dee Wolff
  • Grandma Moses
  • Louise Nevelson
• Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders & Book Designers (exhibition at the Princeton University Library)
• Women Architects (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan)
• Women Artists of the American West (co-developed by Susan Ressler, Purdue University, and Jerrold Maddox, Penn State University)
• Images of Women in Prints from the Renaissance to the Present (exhibition at the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
• Eve and the Identity of Women (essay by Chris Witcombe)
• Varo Registry of Women Artists (Robin Masi), with a link to an
  • Artist List
• Women's Art Work on the Net, a list of links provided by N.Paradoxa, an international feminist art journal exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices
• Artwomen.org
• Queer Arts Resource
• www.theory.org.uk (media theory, by David Gauntlett)
• Flash Art Web (Patrick Souveryns) in French
• Resources in Art History for Graduate Students: A Newsletter of Fellowships and other Opportunities for Art History Graduate Students (Adrienne DeAngelis, Editor)
• Netherlandish and Flemish Art (maintained by Irene Baldriga)
• Historians of Netherlandish Art
• Iconologia or Moral Emblems by Caesar Ripa (Illustrated English edition, London 1709)
• Cesare Ripa's Iconologia
• The Illustrations in the 1764-67 edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia (Takami Matsuda, Professor, Keio University, Japan), with links to
  • Contents in Italian (alphabetical)
  • Contents, with English translation
• Andrea Alciati's Emblematum liber (Alciati's Book of Emblems)
• Liber Emblemata by Andreas Alciati
• Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light (by Leonard Schlain)
• Vision and Art (John H. Krantz)
• Exploring Linear Perspective, and Investigating Aerial Perspective (through the Museum of Science, Boston, Exploring Leonardo page)
• Geometry in Art and Architecture (Paul Calter), with a link to a Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Golden Ratio and Squaring the Circle in the Great Pyramid
  • 3. Music of the Spheres
  • 4. Number Symbolism
  • 5. Polygons and Tilings, and Sacred Geometry
  • 6. The Platonic Solids
  • 7. Ad Quadratum, The Sacred Cut, and Roman Architecture
  • 8. Number, Weight, and Measure: the Medieval Cathedral
  • 9. The Wheel of Fortune and the Rose Window
  • 10. Celestial Themes in Art
  • 11. Brunelleschi's Peepshow and the Origins of Perspective
  • 12. What Shape Frame?
  • 13. Piero della Francesca (1416-1492)
  • 14. Leonardo (1452-1519)
  • 15. Façade measurement by Trigonometry
  • 16. Relativity, the Fourth Dimension, and Early Twentieth Century Art
• The Art and Nature of Fresco (image and text © Sr. Lucia Wiley, CHS)
  • introduction
  • the feminine & fresco creation
  • choosing a wall
  • designing murals
  • lime and sand
  • plastering
  • color
  • painting
  • gallery
  • life as a muralist
  • fresco words in cloistered places
  • who owns a work of art?
  • making a mural
  • women muralists
  • Fresco Painting ansd related websites
• eggtempera.com (The Society of Painters in Tempera)
• Pigments in Paintings (an exhibition provided as a public service of the Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA) by WebExhibits)
  • Introduction
    • Early Pigments
    • Paintings
  • Purples
  • Blues
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Colorants & Dyes
    • Modern Art
  • Greens
    • Antiquity
    • Middle Ages & religion
    • Power & Effects
  • Yellows
    • Antiquity
    • Conflicting use
    • Power & Effects
  • Oranges
  • Reds
    • Symbolism
    • Alchemy
    • Power & Effects
  • Whites
  • Browns
  • Blacks
    plus links to:
    Azurite , Bone black, Brown ochre, Carmine, Cadmium orange, Cadmium yellow, Cerulean Blue, Calcium carbonate whites, Charcoal, Cobalt blue, Cobalt green, Cobalt violet, Cobalt yellow, Chrome orange, Chrome yellow, Copper resinate, Egyptian blue, Emerald green, Green earth, Indian yellow, Indigo, Lead white, Lemon yellow, Madder lake (alizarine), Malachite, Naples yellow, Orpiment, Lead tin yellow, Prussian blue, Realgar, Red lead, Red ochre, Smalt, Titanium dioxide, Ultramarine, Umbra, Van Dyke brown, Verdigris, Vermilion, Viridian, Yellow ochre, Zinc white
• Le langage des couleurs, with a link to Color Symbolism (in French)
• Dye History from 2600 BC to the 20th Century by Susan C. Druding (text only)
• Families of Marble (Walter S. Arnold)
• Textile Dictionary
• Graduate School Directories - Art History (through GradSchools.com)
• Career Alternatives for Art Historians (Compiled by Charles M. Rosenberg, University of Notre Dame)
• ArtCareer, a resource for careers in the visual arts
• Association of Art Editors (AAE) an affiliated society of the College Art Association
• Sotheby's (auctions)
• Christie's (auctions)
• Traditional Fine Art Online, Inc., which includes a Distinguished Artist Series, featuring important historical figures in American art, and Resource Library Magazine, America's Magazine for the Representational Arts
• Printfinders.com (150,000 Art Prints and Posters)
• All About Art, "the world's largest online art poster and print store"
• The Old Orient Museum, an online museum of rare Chinese Japanese, Chinese and Manchukuo poster art (Vincent Lexington Harper)
• Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), New York
• International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), New York
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
• ARLIS/UK & Ireland (Art Libraries Society)
• Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / World Biographical Dictionary of Artists
• CHArt: Computers and the History of Art
• College Art Association (USA) (CAA)
• Association of Art Historians (UK) (AAH)
• Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC)
• Association Française des Historiens de l'Architecture (AFHA)
• National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
• National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
• The Society of Architectural Historians
• Society of Architectural Historians, Australia & New Zealand (SAHANZ)
• European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Delft
• Verband österreichischer Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker (Austrian Association of Art Historians)
• International Federation of Rock Art Organizations (IFRAO)
• American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA)
• Sociedad de Investigación del Arte Rupestre de Bolivia: SIARB (Bolivian Rock Art Research Society: SIARB)
• The Rock Art Foundation, to promote the conservation and study of the Native American rock art in the Lower Pecos region of Southwest Texas
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
• Yale Center for British Art
• International Study Centre for the History of Cities / Centro Internazionale di Studi per la Storia della Città
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
• The Etruscan Foundation
• International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA), The Cloisters, New York
• AVISTA: Association Villard de Honnecourt for Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science, and Art
• The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (London)
• Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
• Iconclass, an iconographic classification system

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