General Resources
Searchable alpha index of all reports from
archaeological sites in the ANE and related material.
Gateway to all archaeological resources
on the internet (Archeological Research Institute, U of Arizona).
Michael Greenhalgh's roadmap to the archives of
the Australian National U's history department with 130,000 on-line images,
mainly from the art & architecture of the Mediterranean basin, now
includes his e-textbook on Greek
& Roman Cities of Western Turkey.
Carol Gerten's pioneering virtual art museum is
a researcher's dream, with over 6000 fine scans of art work searchable by artist's
name or nationality
& time frame.
Saundra Lipton's Religious
Studies Web Guide posts this index of
religious images on the WWW (U of Calgary).
Cliff Wassman leads elegant virtual photo-tours
of monuments of Easter
Island, Stonehenge,
Chichen
Itza, & Mali
and provides links to other
high quality on-line images of esoteric
sites.
Bi-lingual Italian searchable site posts
thousands of high quality images of a wide range of types. The award-winning
cyber-exhibit 1200
Years of Italian Sculpture offers
access by period, city
(Florence, Rome,
Venice,
etc.) or sculptor (including Donatello,
Michelangelo,
Bernini,
etc.). 4000
years of (western) Architecture
includes Egypt
, Greece
are on-line).
Emil Kren & Daniel Marx host a searchable
virtual collection of exquisite images of European art from the 12th
to mid-19th c. & conduct 15 guided
tours of major schools & periods. The quality of images,
well-researched hyper-linked biographies of each artist & glossary
of technical terms make this website itself a real treasure.
Gateway to websites having anything to do
with the arts features pages for global searches by artist,
museum,
online exhibition,
historical
period, architecture
or theatrical
work.
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Museum Exhibits & Collections
London's world-class museum's searchable
collection of historic treasures such as the Rosetta
stone & the Parthenon friezes known
as the Elgin
marbles.
The 16th c. de Medici museum in Florence
features dozens of high-resolution images for registered visitors to download
free.
State of the art official website
of historic Parisian museum offers digital sampler
& kaleidoscope
of its collections from Anatolia,
Mesopotamia,
Iran,
Syria
& Lebanon, Egypt,
Greece
& Rome, Islam,
& European
sculpture, painting
& graphics.
Notes only in French.
Features a clickable timeline
of art history & samplers with hundreds of images from the NYC museum's
collections from Africa,
Asia,
Ancient
Near East, Egypt,
Greece
& Rome, medieval
Europe (including the Cloisters),
Islam
& later European
sculpture, paintings,
drawings
& prints.
Paris tourism website's sampler of
its premier museum's treasures
includes Venus
de Milo & Nike
of Samothrace.
Huge collection of virtual exhibits
with detailed notes. Works with religious or mythic themes include Byzantine
icons, Italian
altar pieces & sculpture,
etchings
by Rembrandt & paintings by Fra
Angelico, Botticelli,
Lippi, Bellini,
el Greco,
Tinteretto,
Rubens,
van
Dyck, Poussin
& Bourdon, Fragonard,
& West.
Jonathan Bowen's virtual catalog of museum
collections & exhibits on the internet.
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