Art History

Christopher Witcombe's directory of art information on the Web organized by period and style, with links to information, images, research resources, museums and galleries, and more.

Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community. The site currently contains access to over 3,000 images and descriptions.

Selected general art and architecture sites, libraries, museums, organizations, and programs.

Over 200 exhibition catalogs from the Guggenheim Museum dataing back to 1936—over 20 years before the museum moved into its iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in 1959. Many of these volume are associated with shows (both artist monographs and group exhibits) that are themselves considered major milestones in the development of 20th-century art history. The archive is searchable by artist, year, medium and artistic style or movement.

Google Arts & Culture is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums. Google Cultural Institute, in cooperation with 17 international museums, including the Tate Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence launched the project in 2011. The digital platform utilizes high-resolution image technology and enables users to virtually tour partner museums’ galleries, explore physical and contextual information about artworks, and compile their own virtual collection.

The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before.

The National Gallery of Art, founded as a gift to the nation, serves as a center of visual art, education, and culture. Our collection of more than 150,000 paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, photographs, prints, and drawings spans the history of Western art and showcases some of the triumphs of human creativity. Use "Search the collection" under the Collection tab to search the entire National Gallery of Art collection by artist's last name, key words in the title, key words in object information, credit line, provenance name, accession number, exhibition history, and/or catalogue raisonné. You will be able to filter your search results by medium, nationality, time span, styles, images, and whether an object is on view. It is not necessary to fill in all of the boxes.

"This is an educational website which is dedicated to art history. Timelines presents selected resources (web links) about the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations, including: Egypt, Greece and Rome, Asia, and the Middle East. ... Timelines pages are organized by civilization and period." Many of the linked sites include images. From an art history enthusiast.

One of the most original cultural sites on the World Wide Web. This fantastic collection (over 100,000 slides) of art historian Jacques-Edouard Berger is being presented by his father, also a historian, Rene Berger. Currently includes: Vermeer and his contemporaries in Italy, Spain, France, and Holland; Italian Renaissance gardens - Villa d'Este, Bomarzo, Villa Lante; A Shared Vision - Egypt, China; Botticelli - including a history of the world at this time; Roman Portraits from Egypt - Fayyum portraits; Pilgrimage to Abydos; Art from Egypt, China, Japan, India, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar/Burma.