Art


General Art Resource Sites

Art History Research Centre
http://www.harmsen.net/ahrc

Offers extensive listings for art-related newsgroups and mailing lists. (Leif Harmsen, hosted at Concordia University, Montreal)

Art History Resources on the Web
http://witcombe.bcpw.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks4.html

Arranged by genre, museums, and research resources. (Sweet Briar College)

Art on the Web
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb.html

An award-winning and very well organized resource compromised of over 1,200 links. (Boston College Art Library)

Index to Women Artists
http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/artists.html

Arranges its entries by alphabetical order and features a brief text about an international artist, with an accompanying representative art image. Artists can be searched by medium and country. (Arizona State University)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_online_resourc.asp

"The Lita Annenberg Hazen and Joseph H. Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources provides access to a wide range of World Wide Web-based resources and other electronic sources for the history of art." The general subject page links to a directory of subject-oriented websites. A separately linked description page outlines the general focus of the site. While the guide's annotations do not systematically outline content, it does list outstanding Internet resources.

The Mother of All Art History Links
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother

Research Resources is a collection arranged by historical discipline (i.e. Asian Studies). Few sites specifically relate to art history. Included are maps, government organizations, and travel sites. Also, of note are pages devoted to image collections and annotated and alphabetically organized museum and online gallery sites. Sites of the Sacred, while limited in scope offers excellent links to early Christian and Islamic documents. Its exceptional collection, Textual and Linguistic Resources, is devoted to philology, the book arts as represented in many cultures, international special collections libraries, Egyptology, a large collection of religious and early Christian manuscripts, as well as electronic and print research resources. (University of Michigan)

Queer Arts Resource
http://www.queer-arts.org/index.html

A non-profit resource for contemporary art, criticism, and cultural and literary links. Its online gallery is of high quality and also features an archive of previous exhibitions.

Voice of the Shuttle: Art and Art History Page
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2707

One of the major directories for humanities research. Particularly helpful for the researcher is the array of briefly annotated links to disciplines. An Internet search engine and a VOS database aids research by topic. (University of California, Santa Barbara)

The WWW Virtual Library: Art History
http://www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/

Reflects much of the same material found in other sites. Features many British sources and has links to image collections. (Computers and History of Art Group)

Yahoo! Arts
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/

Offers the researcher subject arranged sites with brief annotations. Its museum guide is notable for its scale. Subjects include: a large list of art history sites, censorship, criticism and theory, institutes and art schools, reference, visual arts.

Art Reference Resource Sites

ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art
http://www.artlex.com

Over 2,800 terms can be accessed either through an alphabetical or subject index. Although the graphic display is cramped, definitions are illustrated by a large sampling of digital images and text.

Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/cathen.htm

The noted 1913 version is an online work in progress.

The Getty Center
http://www.getty.edu

"The J. Paul Getty Trust is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and the humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation."

Words of Art: An Online Glossary of Theory and Criticism for the Visual Arts
http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/glossary.html

A well-written glossary with hyperlinked cross-references. (Robert Belton, Okanagan University College, British Columbia)

The Wright on the Web
http://www.delmars.com/wright/index.html

A comprehensive resource to Wright's architecture through the decades, collections, organizations, image galleries, essays, and directories.

Asian Art

Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

This major scholarly resource links to databases, full text projects, Internet resources, electronic journals, meditation sites, and Buddhist art. It also links to a similarly constructed Tibetan Studies site and a Zen Buddhism website. It is a recipient of major Internet awards.

SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html

Offers images from China, Korea, Tibet, Mongol, Manchuria up to the 19th century. (University of California at Berkeley)


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