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   African Art Overview of Ancestral Bushman Rock Art and Traditional and Contemporary African Art with photos and maps. http://www.lonker.net/art_african_1.htm Africa-Related Links The African Art, Music & Cultural Resources section of the University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program links page. http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/links.html#art 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/ Pioneering Cartoonists of Color A publication of Creative License Studio Inc., by Tim Jackson. Includes original cartoons and cartoonist's biographies (see the © notice). http://www.CLStoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm 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 Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin Guides that includes images of Wright structures in Wisconsin. Presented by the Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin Heritage Tourism Program. http://flw.badgernet.com/ International Cultural Property Protection Produced by the U.S. Information Agency, includes text of U.S. and International laws, and the Image Database of restricted objects (which currently includes only Cyprus, Guatemala and Peru, but there are plans to add other countries). Important for anyone interested in art to know what is and is not legal to bring into this country. http://www.usia.gov/education/culprop/index.html Isaacs/Innuit Gallery A commercial gallery in Toronto. Site includes images of sculptures, drawings, and wallhangings for sale, in addition to a calendar and general information on Innuit art. http://www.lenape.org/ 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/links/links.html Museo de Monterrey The Permanent Collection includes work by artists from Mexico and Latin America, in addition to selected works in the Collection of Pan-American Graphics Arts. http://www.museodemonterrey.org.mx/ 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/ University of Arizona Library's World Wide Web Exhibits A large group of community-based web exhibits. Includes archival collections such as the Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives, the War Relocation Camps of Arizona 1942 - 1946, USS Arizona - "that terrible day," and more. http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu:80/images/swf/imagessw.html     Asia Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources     Art of China From Purdue university, includes images (without source info) and links. Includes The Great Wall, an illustrated tour mainly taken from the book "Beijing: Glimpses of History" published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China. http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html Asian Arts An online journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia. Includes exhibitions, associations, articles, and images from commercial galleries. http://www.webart.com/asianart/index.html Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia in Modern History Provides information on the recent history of Cambodia. Includes a Photo Gallery and a section on Khmer art. http://members.aol.com/cambodia/ 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 Fakir Khana Family Museum, Pakistan Faqir Khana owns one the largest private antiques collection in South East Asia. This collection has been passing to several generations and boast’s around 30,000 antique pieces from British, Sikh & Mughal era. For the first time in Pakistan Fakir Khana Family has taken up the challenge to bring it up as the first e-museum not only in Pakistan but also in the whole of South East Asia. http://www.fakirkhana.com/ Hmong Textiles From the Southeast Asian Archive at the University of California, Irvine Library. The cloths presented come from two sources: Flower Cloth of the Hmong, Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1985, and Joan Randall, ed., Art of the Hmong-Americans, Davis, CA: C.N. Gorman Museum (UC Davis), 1985. http://www.lib.uci.edu/rrsc/hmong.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     Amiens Cathedral Project A multimedia project that provides computer generated images of Amiens Cathedral. At Columbia University. http://www.arch.columbia.edu/DDL/projects/amiens/index.html 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.hadassah.org.il/hmo/art/chagall.html 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 French Revolutionary Pamphlets An experiment to determine optimal parameters for the network distribution of rare text page images, with navigation aids so that the user might simply read a book online. A series of hard to find pamphlets published during the French Revolutionm have been digitized. Done by Mark Olsen at the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago. http://humanities.uchicago.edu/homes/mark/fr_rev.html   Johannes Vermeer, Vincent Van Gogh, The Delft, and others Research and writings of Dr. Kees Kaldenbach. Dr. Kees Kaldenbach (1953) received his graduate degree in Art History in 1987 at the Amsterdam Vrije Universiteit (Free University). He lives in Amsterdam where he publishes on the fine arts in The Netherlands from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden/ 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 Medieval Wall Paintings from Danish Churches From the Department of History at Copenhagen University, a searchable image-database containing more than 5,000 images of medieval wall-paintings from churches across Denmark (more images are added regularly). In Danish and English. http://kalk.historie.ku.dk/ Musee des arts et metiers A virtual museum of technology, depicted in Umberto Eco's famous novel, "The Foucault's pendulum." Hosts 80,000 objects and documents related with every great technical innovation. Collections section includes many images arranged by subject. In English and French. http://web.cnam.fr/museum/ Paintings of Vermeer An atlas of the oeuvre of the 17th century Dutch painter, with commentary and unwanted opinion. The largest collection of Vermeers online, you can even find the Vermeer that is closest to you (in museum, collection, etc.). Brought to you by Roy Williams at the Center for Advanced Computing Research, Caltech, Pasadena, California. http://www.ccsf.caltech.edu/~roy/vermeer/ 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 St. Petersburg Pictures Gallery An online picture gallery of photos of St. Petersburg. Quite nice. http://www.spb.su/pictures/index.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 Ankaboot An Iranian web guide with an image gallery, news, recipes, jokes, and links grouped by subject (including Arts & Humanities). http://www.ankaboot.com/ 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/ Digitorium at the University of Chicago Library Provides access to scholarly image resources available at the University. Includes the Middle East Photograph Archive and The Oriental Institute Photographic Archive. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/Digitorium/images.html Islamic Architecture in Isfahan Isfahan is one of ten cities designated by UNESCO as a universal heritage. It contains a wide range of Islamic Architectural styles ranging from the 11th century (C.E.) to the 19th. This archive contains photographs and descriptions of some of the most interesting and unusual ones. A fun and informative site that includes a helpful section on Fundamental Concepts of Islamic and Iranian architecture, a tourist shop where you can get a map of the city and information on Iran from the CIA (always found in real tourist shops). http://isfahan.anglia.ac.uk:8200/     The Classical World of the Mediterranean Africa & Diaspora | The Americas | Asia | Europe | Islam | Classical World of the Mediterranean | Photography | Collections, Galleries & Sources   Ancient World Web: The Ultimate Index of All Things Ancient An amazing site that includes news flashes on the latest discoveries, and a wide range of indexed links covering everything from a 3-D reconstruction of a mummy to a "Yamada Mayan Languages WWW guide -- With links to an epigraphic database, a virtual art gallery, and archaeological sites." The links can be accessed by subject organization or they can be searched. Sites are also rated. http://www.julen.net/ancient/ Artserve Part of an extensive collection of images from Australia National University. Includes art and architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. Over 16,000 images. Larger images available for a fee. http://rubens.anu.edu.au/ 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 Memphis Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology At the Department of Art of the University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee. Includes an exhibit of egyptian artifacts residing at the University and a tour of over a dozen different ancient Egyptian sites along the Nile River. http://www.memst.edu/egypt/main.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   Aart Gallery Reviews and examples of work by local (Newfoundland?) artists and photographers. http://www.yes.net/generality/generality/generality/aart_Gallery.html Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux Sponsored by the University of California, Irvine Bookstore, Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux is a portfolio of images of the University of California's nine campuses and its natural reserve system, research stations, and agricultural centers & field stations. http://www.book.uci.edu/AdamsHome.html 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 Photography Exhibit An annual international juried exhibition of photographs, begun in 1994, presented by Bradley University and the Peoria Art Guild. Includes artist statements, technical explanations, biographies and self-portraits of the artists, an index of the exhibiting artists, and a digital photography bibliography. http://www.bradley.edu/exhibit95/ 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/ Edgerton Center Provides hands-on educational experiences for undergraduates at MIT by engaging students in activities and projects in engineering and science. Includes a section on High Speed Imaging (photography and videography). http://web.mit.edu/edgerton/main.htmlmain.html 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.eastman.org/ Hot Pictures: Electronic Photogallery First Russian electronic photogallery, this site presents the works of artists who use photography. The spectre of presented works is rather wide -- starting from "direct, immediate photography" to computer-processed images. Also the exhibition has the works documenting creative activity, scenes, the works which use photo images as a base for painting, etc. The age of artists varies from 20 to 56 years, their popularity also widely varies. http://lvk-ether.cs.msu.su/wwwart/hotpics/ Kodak Digital Images Offering The images included here were all taken by amateur photographers-- Kodak employees who have donated their photographs for this project. Kodak, and the individual photographers, offer these sample images for non-commercial use. http://www.kodak.com/digitalImages/samples/imageIntro.shtml 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 St. Petersburg Pictures Gallery An online picture gallery of photos of St. Petersburg. Quite nice. http://www.spb.su/pictures/index.html 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/ Artgator Premium museum art prints, posters, fine art, picture frames and framed decorative wall mirrors online. Upload your digital photos and frame them with real time viewing with our virtual framer. Purchase or share them with your friends with e-mails. Free shipping for any framed art or mirror. http://www.artgator.com artnet Artists, galleries, auctions, price database, market trends, and a wealth of information. http://www.artnet.de ArtSource Links to resources on Art and Architecture. Includes programs, journals, libraries, exhibitions, events, image collections, and museum information. Initially created by an art librarian, the site is housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries. http://www.uky.edu/Artsource/artsourcehome.html The Athenaeum Interactive Hunanities 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.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm Clearinghouse of Image Databases and the IMAGELIB listserv archives An online directory of at the University of Arizona Library. It was created in July 1994 by Stuart Glogoff, Assistant Dean for Library Information Systems at the University of Arizona, who continues to maintain it. http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/image_projects.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 From the Studio: New Work by Art Department Faculty An exhibition at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, features a range of media from photographs and video to paintings and sculpture. http://www.wellesley.edu/DavisMuseum/WWWStudio95.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://www.loc.gov/homepage/exhibits.html List of images by various artists Another set of images with many artists but few examples for each. But you never know, you may find the one you're looking for. http://ftp.sunet.se/ftp/pub/pictures/art/ On the Way...Images to While the Day Away An exhibit (?) by Stanley Tomshinsky. "Stanley Tomshinsky was born in New York City in 1935. After graduating New York University in 1959 he settled in Milan. This is a retrospective look at the artist's work from 1961 through 2000. 130 paintings, sculptures, and computer-drawings that illustrate energy in movement and insights into symbolism, ranging in manner from conceptual to analogical. http://www.tomshinsky.com Reverse Solidus An eclectic and eccentric site for photography, and various other contemporary arts, statements and projects. http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html 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 UC Berkeley Digital Library project Intended to develop the technologies for access to massive, distributed collections of multi-media documents including photographs, satellite images, videos, full text documents, and "multivalent" documents comprising multiple terabyte databases. http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/ 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://gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html WebMuseum! A collection of exhibitions of varying quality ranging from specialized to general interest including Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry, Paul Cézanne, Art of the 20th century, and the general Famous Paintings exhibit. http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/ 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://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/index.html     Back to Mother If you have any additions, suggestions, or contributions contact Patrick Young: patyoung@umich.edu Thanks!