IMAGE COLLECTIONS AND ONLINE ART Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   Africa and the African Diaspora   Africa South of the Sahara: Selected Internet Resources A searchable list of links, also arranged by subject and countries/regions. Prepared by Karen Fung for the Electronic Technology Group, African Studies Association, USA, and housed at Standford University Library. Check out the Art section. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html Art and Life in Africa Online Art and Life in Africa Online contains information about African Art and Culture. Some of the material on this site hasbeen adapted from similar material developed for the Art and Life in Africa CD-ROM being produced at The University of Iowa. Additionally, some material is specific to this site (and not found on the CD), as noted below. Links to further resources on the web have been added where appropriate. http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/ Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Part of the New York Public Library, the Schomburg is a national research library devoted to collecting, preserving and providing access to resources documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world. Site includes online exhibitions and digital collections. http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html     The Americas Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   Chicano/Latino Network Virtual Museum CLNET's list of web sites, including sections on latino art, music, dance, theater & film, and pictorial essays. Produced by the Chicano/LatinoNet at the University of California. http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/MUSEUM.HTML Lenni Lenape Historical Society / Museum of Indian Culture A good source of Native American links, includes Art & Artists, Museums, and PowWows. http://www.lenape.org National Museum of American Art In the Collections & Exhibitions section, browse over 3000 digitized works, or search by artist or subject. http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/     Asia Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources     China the Beautiful The homepage for 5,000 years of Chinese Art and Literature - a tiny bit of it anyway. Includes the China Room, with examples of calligraphy from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, a section on Paintings & Graphic Arts, Poetry, and Arts, in addition to many related links. Also has the Chinese Reading Room (special software required). http://www.chinapage.com/china.html Kyoto National Museum Provides an online image database with over 10,000 images of over 3,200 objects or sets of objects from the museum collection, searchable by keyword or category. http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/ Scenery Pictures of China (CND InfoBase) Tourist shots divided into three series. The first, "The Land of Beauty," includes the "top ten scenic sites." The second series is of "Natural Landscapes," and the third is "Ancient Buildings." Also includes links to other sites with pictures of China, including a lot of good modern Hangzhou scenes and Time Magazine's "A Day in the Life of China." http://www.cnd.org/Scenery/index.html     Europe Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   Christus Rex A private Catholic site which hosts a collection of medium quality images of Vatican City (255 images), The Sistine Chapel (325 images), The Raphael Stanze and Loggia (226 images), The Vatican Museums (596 images) and plenty more. The quality of the images ranges from not-so-great to not-bad, but here quantity makes up for quality. http://www.christusrex.org/ Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive An experiment in Hypermedia that has gained a great deal of attention within the circles of adepts. Also has great pictures and texts for those who hang out in other circles. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/rossetti/rossetti.html Connecticut College's Wetmore Print Collection Includes Rembrandt and Durer prints. They own the images and thus the copyrights (I don't think the Durer family has much of a case). Since they are generous they encourage the free distribution and display of the images. http://camel.conncoll.edu/visual Les Tres Riches Heures Du Duc De Berry One of the image projects of the ARTFL Project, Univ. of Chicago. The pictures in this directory are from the calendar section of the Tres Riches Heures. This was painted some time between 1412 and 1416 and is arguably the most beautiful part of the manuscript; it is certainly the best known, being one of the great art treasures of France. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/images/heures/heures.html Renaissance and Baroque Architecture Scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), at the University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History. They are organized according to his course syllabus. Gobs o' images. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture This Library of Congress exhibit presents some 200 of the Vatican Library's most precious manuscripts, books, and maps--many of which played a key role in the humanist recovery of the classical heritage of Greece and Rome. http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/Vatican.exhibit.html     Middle East & Islam Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet A project of The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago. Includes online journals, library catalogs, museum collections, and directories, in addition to subject and regional indexes. An Associate Site of the Argos search engine. http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/ABZU/ABZU.HTML Artserve Part of an extensive collection of images from Australia National University. Includes architecture images, indexed alphabetically from Egypt to Syria. More images available for a fee. http://rubens.anu.edu.au/     The Classical World of the Mediterranean Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   Chagall Windows Created by Marc Chagall and his assistant, Charles Marq, at the Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. The Windows are populated by floating figures of animals, fish, flowers, and numerous Jewish symbols. http://www.md.huji.ac.il/special/chagall/index.html Scrolls from the Dead Sea: The Ancient Library of Qumran and Modern Scholarship An exhibit at the Library of Congress that describes the historical context of the scrolls and the Qumran community from whence they may have originated; it also relates the story of their discovery 2,000 years later. Includes images of 12 scroll fragments and 29 other objects loaned by the Israel Antiquities Authority for this exhibition. http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/intro.html University of Michigan Papyrus Collection Site provides a description of papyrus, a history and overview of the collection, and related resources. Also includes digital images of selected papyri. The site is currently being overhauled. http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/     Photography Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   California Academy of Sciences Includes a database of pictures from more than 20,000 images of California plants (native and naturalized) as well as habitats. http://www.calacademy.org/ Digital Schomburg Part of the New York Public Library, an extensive collection of images of African Americans from the nineteenth century. http://digital.nypl.org/Schomburg/images_aa19/ Fotosearch Stock Image Library A site with 50 top photography vendors and 750,000 images. Everyone needs to learn how to copy, store, and paste graphics, as well as how to embed them into web pages. http://www.fotosearch.com George Eastman House Includes selections from the collections. http://www.eastmanhouse.org/ Library of Congress: American Memory Includes many collections that can be browsed by subject or searched. An amazing resource. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ Photomuse This collaborative website of the George Eastman House and International Center of Photography Alliance, is currently under development. This version is a prototype. Research continues on both the database back end and the design of the front end. When completed, the site will provide in-depth access to the extensive photography resources of both institutions.ncludes many collections that can be browsed by subject or searched. http://wwwphotomuse.org University of Virginia, Daguerreotype site Nice digital images of 19th century daguerreotypes, with some historical info and related resources. http://wsrv.clas.Virginia.EDU/~bhs2u/daguerre/dag01.html   Image Collections, Galleries & Sources Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   Artchive Over 2,000 high quality scans of artwork by Mark Harden. From Abakanowicz to Wyeth. CD of the archive available to patrons. http://artchive.com/ftp_site.htm ART COMIC Independent Comics for the Internet http://www.artcomic.com/ Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall A gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world http://www.graffiti.org/ artnet Artists, galleries, auctions, price database, market trends, and a wealth of information. http://www.artnet.de The Athenaeum Interactive Humanities Online. Over 5000 high-quality images of public domain fine art. Users can upload material themselves, create and store notes directly on the image display pages, participate in discussion forums, create lists of artworks, etc. http://www.the-athenaeum.org CaliforniaArt.com Lists publications, galleries, and news and events pertaining to pre-1945 California art. http://www.californiaart.com Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave A site with pictures from the discovery in December, 1994 of a vast underground network of caves decorated with paintings and engravings dating from the Palaeolithic age (17,000 - 20,000 years ago). http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html Corsair The online research resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library. Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. CORSAIR, now includes more than 5,000 images from its collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The images and accompanying descriptions are the product of a collaboration between the Morgan and the Index of Christian Art to photograph, digitize, and describe all significant illustrations within the Morgan's medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm Dia Center for the Arts A multi-disciplinary contemporary arts organization. Site includes artist's projects, long-term installations, exhibitions, forums, programs, and publications. http://www.diacenter.org/ Etciu Art Network Etciu is a portal dedicated to art that contains a rich virtual museum and many other services. http://www.etciu.com/english.html Gallerie DeLuxxe: Fluxus Home Page Information on performance art and performance art spaces in NY. http://www.deluxxe.com Library of Congress Exhibits The central location from which you can go to any of the many exhibits designed by the LOC. http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/Pages/Default.aspx Paintings of Johannes Vermeer Vermeer is regarded as one of the Dutch Golden Age's greatest painters. Much information about Vermeer can be found on the internet. On this page, you will find a variety of resources on Vermeer and his paintings. Some of the following web sites will allow you to download images of his paintings, which can be printed out with the proper printer ink. http://www.printerinks.com/the-paintings-of-johannes-vermeer.html Toulouse Lautrec The complete works of Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, the French post Impressionist painter, art nouveau illustrator, and lithographer. http://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/ Treasures of The Louvre Not an official page, but some good images nonetheless. Divided into Paintings, Egyptian Antiquities, Oriental Antiquities, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, and Objets d'Art. http://www.paris.org/Musees/Louvre/Treasures/treasures.html Web Gallery of Art The Web Gallery of Art contains over 6,000 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1750. A considerable number of the pictures are commented and biographies of the significant artists are given. A versatile search engine allows you to find pictures in the collection using various search criteria. A number of guided tours make it easier to visit the Gallery and to understand the artistic and historical relationship between different artworks and artists included in the collection. http://www.wga.hu/ WebMuseum, Paris! An extensive collection of exhibitions from Gothic Painting to art of the 20th century. http://webmuseum.meulie.net/wm/paint/ Wentworth Galleries Visit one of Wentworth's 37 galleries. Wentworth specializes in providing a wide selection of original oils, limited edition serigraphs, lithographs, and sculptures from artists around the world. http://www.wentworth-art.com/ World Art Treasures A collaboration between the J. E. Berger Foundation and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. Intended to promulgate the discovery and love of art. From 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation. http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/     Back to Mother If you have any additions, suggestions, or contributions contact Patrick Young: patyoung@umich.edu Thanks!