Lisa
Klopfer's Link Collection for Fine Art
These are not your usual links. I figure
you can find major sites (such as the Met, the Louvre, etc.) without my guidance
(hint: use google). What I offer
here are some less well known sites plus a few favorites that I just couldn't
leave out .
Museums
| Virtual Museums and Online Indexes | Art History Resources | Sources Requiring Subscription
Museums
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/copyright/toc.htm
This site has everything. Search, browse, tour, get resources and information
on just about any art period. The kids pages (http://www.nga.gov/kids/)
are interesting and not cutesy (some of them require Quicktime). The
teacher resources
(http://www.nga.gov/education/) include some useful online programs (images
and interpretive text, sometimes curriculum guides) of artists from Rembrandt
to Rothko. |
Art Institute of Chicago
http://www.artic.edu/aic/index.html
Plan your visit, see a calendar of events, or view images and short descriptions
of thousands of art objects. Within the site, Art Access (http://www.artic.edu/artaccess/)
offers glossaries, lesson plans, activities and bibliographies for Ancient
American, African American, Impressionism/Post Impressionism and Modern/Contemporary
art. The bibliographies are divided into adult's books, children's
books, audio-visual and useful web links to other collections. |
Kyoto National Museum
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/indexe.htm
A beautiful site, but not entirely in English. The "Museum Dictionary"
offers "stories" based on particular works of art. The writing varies from
simple to High School level, so these work best with a teacher to help select
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Fine arts Museums of SF
http://www.famsf.org/
This image database is one of the first to arrive, and one of better indexed.
It allows related works searching. You can zoom down to the pixel
level (if you care to see pixels) of the image. Best of all, you can
design your own virtual
gallery. This is fun, and could be an excellent class project. |
Philadelphia Museum
of Art http://www.philamuseum.org/
This museum has added social tagging to its online collection! You
can create your own virtual gallery and participate in forums.
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National
Gallery of Iceland http://www.listasafn.is/
It's not a huge site, but you can download some art images to your cell phone.
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Virtual Museums and Online Indexes
Virtual Museum
El Pais http://www3.diarioelpais.com/muva2/
A museum that only exists on the web! Although this was one of the first
of its kind, it hasn't been developed much. The html version works in English
but the Multimedia (using Flash) seems to work only in Spanish. Be sure to
allow pop-ups. The virtual architecture is just as interesting as most of
the artwork. The exhibits are fresh, contemporary and challenging. |
Graphic Witness:
Visual Arts & Social Commentary http://graphicwitness.org/ineye/about.htm
This is a beautiful, if somewhat clumsily organized collection of social commentary
in art (prints, cartoons) by such giants as William Hogarth and Kaethe Kollwitz
as well as more contemporary artists. The site is actively maintained
and updated, with new exhibits appearing regularly.
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Art Images for College
Teaching
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/
Created and maintained by Allan T. Kohl of the Minneapolis College of Art
& Design, this is a labor of love. Images may be downloaded, or
ordered as CDs or slides. The concordance to major Art History texts
is also useful. |
Vermeer
http://www.ballandclaw.com/vermeer/
Click on the thumbnail images to see larger reproductions and commentary
on 36 Vermeer paintings (more or less all of his known ouvre). There
are links to other Vermeer sites, too.
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Japanese Garden Database
http://www.jgarden.org/
A non-profit organization presenting excellent information and images on
Japanese Gardens around the world. This site is refreshingly free of
sentimentality and exoticism.
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Islamic Architecture in Isfahan
http://www.isfahan.org.uk/
Persian and Islamic Architecture from the 11th to the 19th century.
This database contains photographs and descriptions of some sites, and a
section on Fundamental Concepts of Islamic and Iranian architecture.
Much of this site hasn't been updated since 1999. Some of the navigation
is clunky. Still, what is available is unique.
If you don't like sound effects, mute your speakers before you log into this
site.
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Artcyclopedia
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
This is not a collection, but a guide and search page that indexes links
to information and images of "museum quality" art. Search by artist,
title, medium, movement, subject, nationality or, conveniently, art museum.
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Mark Harden's
Artchive http://www.artchive.com/
Over 2,000 scans of fine art available for private, noncommercial use.
Many of the images are linked to useful essays or overviews from reliable
art history reference sources. Browse an index of artists by name, or
click your way through a virtual gallery. There are some ugly ads,
but that's why the site is free.
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Art History Resources
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Sources Requiring Subscription (check
your library's website)
Grove
Dictionary of Art
http://www.groveart.com/
Over 45,000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the
Americas and the Pacific from prehistory until today with links to images
and further information in museum and other art-related web sites.
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ARTstor
http://www.artstor.org/info/
Seemingly endless collection of high quality images from some of the best
public, academic and private collections in the world. Photographs, ancient
artifacts and architecture are also included. View anything from a Gehry
chair to16th century scientific drawings.
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