Recommended sites for each class:

  1. WK1-Intro, Viewing art. What do you like? What is good?
  2. WK2-The Ancients
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Art Timeline
    This is a huge ancient collection and well organized for browsing. Highly recommended. Save images by right clicking and choosing "save as" and then type in the name you want to call it rather than the http:// that is there.
    The British Museum: Compass
    You may save links to large images only and they are super. When you are on a large image page, right click and choose "save as."
    Find the tours: Cleopatra of Egypt: from History to Myth
                           Gladiators and Caesars
                           Mummies and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt
    The Art Institute of Chicago--ancient timeline with images
    Boston
  3. Tigertail Virtual Museum
  4. WK3-Middle Ages
    Web sources    , List of specific sources
    Midieval History (art) web source,
     Artlex, Excellent websource
    Zap-Me Listof sources
    Art and Architecture
    Metropolitan Museum of Art-Cloisters
  5. The Gothic Image, links to museums with gothic art
  6. WK4-Renaissance to Rococo
    Uffizi Galley, Florence, Italy
    View collection by room. Renaissance masterpieces.
    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.
    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 of Art, Washington D.C., USA
    Great organization. You can search by various criteria. Easiest resource. Great tours from this time period.
    Museums in Florence, Italy
    In Italian, see Michelangelo Buonarroti's, David plus more.
    Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (virtual)

  7. WK5-Modern World
    8. North Carolina Museum, USA
    Clear and easy.
    Moderna Museet, Stockholm
    Modern art by theme.
    Whitney Museum of American Art
    Twentieth Century American, about 75 works online.
    Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
    40 works of modern art well presented and explained.
  8. WK6-Postmodern World and conclusion
    9. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    Art Minimalist and Conceptual Only (virtual)
    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Museum of Modern Art, New York,USA
    Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
    Tate Modern, London, UK
    Extensive from 1900. A bit slow, 25,000 images online.
    Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago