Exploring Art History
in the World's Museums
- ART
HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB Resources, Contents
page is more specific for art history.l
- This is our main source.
It is well organized and extensive.
World Museums with good
collections online:
Prado,
Spain
50
greatest works available, browse by museum room. Save images by right clicking
and choosing "add to favorites." Delete the http in the "name"
area and type in the name that you want. Or, a detailed search (not all with
images) of the collections may be done from
here. This site is slow.
Rijksmuseum,
Netherlands
Choose "collection"
at the top and then "1250 Major Exhibits" on the side. Not possible
to bookmark a specific page. Huge, detailed zoom is possible, and THAT can be
saved with a right click choosing favorites. Also, the regular sized images
can be saved that way.
.British
Museum
Particularly good with
world cultures. Choose "Compass" to see individual works. The "tours"
are well done and include many works in each. You may save links to large images
only and they are super. When you are on a large image page, right click and
choose "add to favorites."
Uffizi
Galley, Florence, Italy
View collection by room.
Renaissance masterpieces.
The
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
This site was produced
by IBM. Large collection, easy to research. Save images the same way.
National
Gallery, London, UK
Good educational site.
Expecially fine for its large index of works arranged by artist's name.
MIA
and Walker, Minneapolis, USA
MIA,
online Educational
Projects
Walker
Lourve,
Paris, France
Easy to use, good descriptions.
Musée
d'Orsay, Paris, France
Their collection is awesome.
The presentation feels cumbsy.
National
Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Great organization. You
can search by various criteria.
The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Excellent resource.
North
Carolina Museum, USA
Clear and easy.
Getty
Museum, Los Angeles, USA
One strength is a thematic
approach.
The
Art Institute of Chicago,USA
Excellent, clear, easy.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
Interesting timeline 1400's
to present. Classy looking web page, but the navigation is difficult. Fewer
images than most.
Museum
of Modern Art, New York,USA
Good,but slow.
The
Phillips Collection The Permanent Collection
Small collection and good.
Modern, beginning with the Impressionists.
Tate
Modern, London, UK
Extensive from 1900. A
bit slow, 25,000 images online.
The
Guggenheim
This takes you straight
to the "movements" in modern art page.
MFA,
Boston
500 categorized works.
National
Gallery of Australia
Österreichische
Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Art
Gallery of Ontario
Hong
Kong Museum of Art
The
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Vatican
Museums
Extensive Roman antiquities,
Renaissance, Sistine Chapel.
Museums
in Florence, Italy
In Italian, see Michelangelo
Buonarroti's, David plus more.
Museo
della Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Huge number of works,
but hard to understand since it is in Italian.
Tokyo
Fuji Art Museum, Japan
Some western art is available
online. The Japanese isn't ready yet.
Kyoto
National Museum, Japan
Go here for Japanese art!
National
Museum for Western Art, Toyko, Japan
32 works available.
VanGogh
Museum, Amsterdam
Complete, excellent presentation.
Easy to see many works by Van Gogh, fast.
The
Mauritshuis, The Hague
National Museum of Art,
Bucharest
Highlights of the collection.
The
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
Many highlights of the
collection.
Asian
Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Highlinghts.
Singapore
Art Museum
Small images. Works by
many currrent artists of Singapore.
Ho-Am
Art Museum, Seoul
Best and most sophisticated
web design I have ever seen. Many works of Korea, too. But difficult since it
is mostly in Korean. There are a few English words and one can navigate with
pictures.
Museo
de Bellas Artes de Valencia San Pío VI, Spain
Huge index of artists
with many works online and large. Spanish only.
Statens
Historiska Museum (The Museum of National Antiquities), Stockholm
Ancient cultural objects.
Moderna
Museet, Stockholm
Modern art by theme.
National
Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China
Beautiful, English, well
organized Chinese art.
Topkapi
Palace Museum, Istanbul
Good display of Sultan's
robes.
Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
Wonderful examples and
explanations can be found if you are patient and dig.
Smithsonian
Freer Gallery of Art (The National Museum of Asian Art for the United States),
Washington, D.C.
Work is organized by exhibits.
Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Frick
Collection, New Your City
High tech IPIX tours.
Downloads of software and or plug-ins might be required to see the work on oyur
machine.
The
Morgan Library, New York City
Small number of drawings
and prints available.
Whitney
Museum of American Art
Twentieth Century American,
about 75 works online.
Dahesh
Museum of Art, New York
Academic art explained
and some examples.
Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo
40 works of modern art
well presented and explained.
Grounds
for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
Approximately 100 modern
sculptors listed and works shown and explained.
Peabody
Essex Museum
Cultural variety. A few
examples of each.
Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Cultural variety. A few
examples of each.
Kimbell
Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Lots to see and easy to
get at it.
Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City
Good.
Spencer
Museum of Art, University of Kansas
Kemper
Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art permanent collections or online
browse
The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seems to be much here,
but, I think that it is difficult to navigate.
The
Detroit Institute of Arts
Terrific theme presentations.
African Art and Ancient Art are available now. Others are in the works. Also
DIA , to find art from the collection.Boston
College Museum
The
Columbia Museum of Art Columbia, South Carolina
Norton
Museum of Art West Palm Beach, FL
San
Diego Museum Art, California
Museum
of Contemporary Art of Chicago
Norton
Simon Museum, Pasedena, CA, USA. Lovely museum and collection.