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ART - HISTORY

General |Prehistoric Art |Ancient Art | Ancient-Near East & Egypt | Ancient-Greece & Rome | Middle Ages |
Renaissance & Baroque |18th,19th, 20th Century Art | Non-European Art | Other Art | Art - Images

 

ART - HISTORY - General

• Artcyclopedia
• Art History: Career Services at The University of North Carolina, Wilmington
• Art History Network
• Art History - Resources for the Study of Art History
• Best of History Web Sites - Art History
• Timeline of Art History
• Time Lines of Art History
• World Wide Web Virtual Library - History of Art, The
  
  

• Cosquer, La grotte - This site shows a painted cave discovered recently near Marseilles on the south coast of France; it can be reached only through a long passage underwater.
  www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/archeosm/fr/fr-medit-prehist.htm

  Lascaux, The Cave of - An excellent site on the discovery and history of the cave and an illustrated tour through its various parts.
  http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

  Mothers of Time - A discussion of seven Paleolithic figurines from the Louis Alexandre Jullien Collection by Jacques Cinq-Mars of the Archaeological Survey of Canada. The site is part of a Virtual Museum in the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
  http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/paleofig/pal00eng.html

  Prehistoric Art in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia - Great collection of prehistoric objects beginning with Paleolithic Art.
  www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_2.html

  Stonehenge - A brief chronology of Stonehenge and information about archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge and Stonehenge and the latter-day Druids.
  witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMStonehenge.html

  Stone Pages, The - Paola Arosio and Diego Meozzi's site catalog of stone circles (including Stonehenge), dolmens, standing stones, cairns, barrows and hillforts in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, and Italy. Plus some great QuickTime VR Panoramic view movies!
  www.stonepages.com/

  Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche), A Palaeolithic painted cave at - Another very good site on the discovery of this painted cave in 1994.
  www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm

  "Venus" of Willendorf, The- Chris Witcombe, Department of Art History, Sweet Briar College, discusses the discovery, naming, identity, and meaning of this famous Paleolithic figurine of a woman.
  http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfdiscovery.html
  

• Time Lines of Art History is organized to allow both a synchronic study of history (studying across cultures at approximately the same time, such as the Iron Age in different parts of the world), and a diachronic study of history, examining Egyptian or Greek culture as it develops over time. Another page is devoted to AD/CE.
  http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/timelines/tl001.html

• ART - HISTORY - Ancient Art - Near East & Egypt

  Ancient Near Eastern Art, Works of Arts - to the Arab conquest and rise of Islam beginning in 651 CE. Click on the "View 50 Highlights" to see works from ancient Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Anatolia, and other areas.
  www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=3)

  Djoser, The Step Pyramid Complex of
  Built during the Third Dynasty (ca. 2800 BCE) in what is now Saqqara, Egypt, Djoser's Step Pyramid is generally considered the first tomb in Egypt to be built entirely of stone. A clickable plan of the funerary precinct and a series of illustrations provides an excellent introduction to this important monument.
  ccat.sas.upenn.edu/arth/zoser/zoser.html

  Egypt, Monuments and Sights to See In -Scroll down to "Pharaonic Monuments" and visit dozens of sites in ancient Egypt. Each is accompanied by a brief informative text with links to additional information about people (pharaohs, and other ancient Egyptians) and including the complete translation by E.A. Wallis Budge of The Egyptian Book of the Dead. Presented by the Ministry of Tourism, Egypt, and the Egyptian Tourist Authority.
  touregypt.net/monument.htm

  Mesopotamia and Anatolia in the Louvre Museum, Paris, Art of - Nineteen major examples of Sumerian, Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite art in the world-class collection of the Louvre. Excellent images are accompanied by a brief text.
  www.louvre.fr/anglais/collec/ao/ao_f.htm

  Nile, Mysteries of the - Another PBS NOVA Online presentation that, besides the Old Kingdom pyramids and the Sphinx, includes the New Kingdom temples at Karnak and Luxor (with some QuickTime VR movies).
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/explore/

  Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology - Digital Egypt for Universities
  Houses an estimated 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. It illustrates life in the Nile Valley from prehistory through the time of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic, Roman and Coptic periods to the Islamic period.
  http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/index2.html
  

  Pyramids, Explore the - A PBS NOVA Online presentation for kids but with good images and information about the pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure, plus the Sphinx. It also inquires into the age of the pyramids and who built them; with some fun QuickTime VR!
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/

  
  ART - HISTORY - Ancient Art - Greece & Rome

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  Maecenas: Images of Greece and Rome - Over 1000 excellent photographs of mostly ancient Roman architecture by Leo C. Curran. Italy is extensively covered, but sites and buildings in England and France are also included.
  http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/general_contents.htm

  Perseus Project, The- An outstanding research tool for the study of the ancient world. The project provides searchable digital catalogs of art objects, sites, and buildings. The catalogs currently document 523 coins, 1548 vases, over 1400 sculptures, 179 sites and 381 buildings, with over 33,000 pictures. Various texts are also available. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Gregory Crane, Tufts University.
  www.perseus.tufts.edu/

  ART - HISTORY - Middle Ages Art

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  Amiens Cathedral Project -The great Gothic Cathedral of Amiens is presented by Columbia University art the Media Center for Art History with images of the exterior, interior, and sculpture program, plus texts, computer graphics, Flash animation, and QuickTime movies.
  http://www.learn.columbia.edu/Mcahweb/Amiens.html

  Byzantine Churches and Monasteries - An excellent survey of a number of Byzantine churches and monasteries, including the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (with some QuickTime movies!)
  http://www.patriarchate.org/ecumenical_patriarchate/chapter_./index.html

  Byzantium, The Glory of - An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, explores the art of the second golden age of Byzantine art (843-1261). The website also includes examples of art from the first golden age of Byzantine art (324-730) and the late period, which ended with the Turkish conquest in 1453.
  http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Byzantium/byzhome.html

  Medieval Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Fifty images of highlights in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/department.asp?dep=17

  Notre-Dame, Paris, The Oeuvre of -The building of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
  http://www.oeuvre-notre-dame.org/gb/histoire/Histoire.htm

  Scythians in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, The Art of the - Finds from burial complexes in the Crimea, Kuban basin and in the valleys of the Dnieper and Don rivers. The collection includes an abundance of articles of applied art, with objects created in the Scythian Animal style as well as items made by Greek craftsmen.
  http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_2_6.html
  

• ART - HISTORY - Renaissance and Baroque Art

  Florence Art Guide, The -Gloria Chiarini's useful guide to the art and architecture of Florence.
  http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/hogui.htm

  Florence, Your Way to - Intended for visitors, but offering a good "Arts" section with pages devoted to the Art and History of Florence, Museums, Churches, Famous People, Last Suppers, and Medici Villas.
  http://www.arca.net/florence.htm

  Michelangelo Buonarroti - A commercial site devoted to the life and work of Michelangelo.
  http://www.michelangelo.com/buonarroti.html

  Michelangelo Project, The Digital - A project undertaken by Stanford University and the University of Washington to digitize Michelangelo's statue of David. Besides images of the project, additional pages include learning how to carve marble and a visit to the marble quarries of Pietrasanta.
  http://graphics.stanford.EDU/projects/mich/

  Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture, Rome Reborn: The - A major exhibition from the Vatican Library at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
  http://metalab.unc.edu/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/Main_Hall.html

  Versailles, Château de -The official site of Versailles with information about the palace and the grounds.
  http://www.chateauversailles.fr/
  

• ART - HISTORY - 18th, 19th, 20th Century Art

  Artists of the 20th Century
  A useful compilation of biographies, with photographs, of major 20th-century artists by Matthijs Leijenaar.
  http://www.1001.org/20th/

  Contemporary Art, A Collection of
  A selection of images by provocative and important artists working today drawn from the Broad Art Foundation collection.
  http://www.broadartfdn.org/
  

  InfoGoya 96 Virtual Exhibition
  An exhibition of Goya's prints in the Biblioteca Nacional de España .
  http://goya.unizar.es

  Pre-Raphaelite Passion
  A site examining the passion of the Pre-Raphaelites in their subject matter; with over 80 images organized by subject matter.
  http://www.nouveaunet.com/prbpassion/

  Victorian Britain, The Arts in
  Part of the Victoria Web which provides extensive coverage of the literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria.
  http://landow.stg.brown.edu/victorian/art/artov.html

  William Blake Archive, The
  A resource for the study of the artist and poet William Blake.
  http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/blake/

  William Morris Home Page, The
  Mark Samuels Lasner's site devoted to William Morris (1834-96), the British craftsman, designer, writer, typographer, and Socialist.
  http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/wmorris/morris.html

• ART - HISTORY - Non-European Art

  African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning - An electronic exhibition catalogue examining the aesthetics of African artifacts at the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia.
  www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html

  African Mask, The Art of the - A virtual exhibition at the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia.
  http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~bcr/African_Mask.html

  African Voices - In this web site explore objects that attest to Africa's striking diversity and long history. Listen as Africans talk about their lives and cultures.
  http://www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/

  Chinese Civilization, A Visual Sourcebook of - This is a whole curriculum of visual sources. The section on calligraphy is just one of many resources covering Chinese material culture.
  http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/
  

  Easter Island, Secrets of -A PBS NOVA examination of how hundreds of giant stone statues that dominate the island's coast were moved and erected.
  www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/

  Harappa - South Asia's past is examined though photographs and archaeology with sections devoted to the ancient Indus Valley Civilization and the city of Harappa, and to images of India in engravings, lithographs, photographs and film during the period of the Raj.
  www.harappa.com/

  Japanese Ukiyoe Prints - A large selection of Japanese Ukiyoe prints from the Sweet Briar Collection.
  www.artgallery.sbc.edu/ukiyoe/collection.html

  Mexico, Archaeology of Teotihuacan - Saburo Sugiyama of the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University, presents research at the ancient city of Teotihuacan with sections devoted to the Avenue of the Dead, the Moon Pyramid, the Sun Pyramid, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid, and the Ciudadela. With images and QuickTime movies.
  archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/

  Mississippi, Ancient Architects of the - The National Park Service provides information on the ancient moundbuilders.
  www.cr.nps.gov/aad/feature/feature.htm

  Native American - Professor Ron Johnson's site (part of his 'Tribal Arts Review') provides images of Native American art of the Western United States and Canada ranging from the Eskimo in Alaska to the Anasazi in the Southwest.
  sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rwj1/nativ.html

  Southeast Asian Monuments -A selection of one hundred images from the collection of Marijke J. Klokke of monuments in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
  www.leidenuniv.nl/pun/ubhtm/mjk/intro.htm

• ART - HISTORY - Other

  America, Documenting - Black-and-white photographs by important American photographers collection at the Library of Congress.
  memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fadocamer.html

  Art and Design, Explore & Learn: - Smithsonian museums substantial collection of online exhibits related to art.
  http://www.si.edu/art_and_design/

  Career Alternatives for Art Historians - Charles M. Rosenberg at the University of Notre-Dame lists numerous career possibilities for art historians.
  www.nd.edu/~crosenbe/jobs.html

  Connoisseurship, On - Richard de Koster examines connoisseurship and some aspects on postmodernist aesthetics.
  www.highlands.com/art/

  media theory, gender, identity, and cultural studies, A website for - managed by David Gauntlett.
  www.theory.org.uk/

  Photography, A History of - Dr. Robert Leggat examines the history of photography from its beginnings till the 1920s
  http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/

  Postmodernism and Art History - Many essays and gallery reviews by John Haber in New York City.
  www.haberarts.com/myintro.htm

  Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga - Smithsonian Museum for Natural History's website for online exhibits,
  http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/start.html

  Women Artists in History - A showcasing of the work of women artists down through the centuries produced and maintained by Wendy Murdock and Carrie Carolin.
  www.wendy.com/women/artists.htm

ART - IMAGES

• 800 Important Women Artists: Medieval to Modern
• Amazing Picture Machine, The
• Art Images for College Teaching
• Defense Visual Information Center
• NYPL Digital Library
• Digital Librarian
• Ditto.com
• ImageFinder - Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE
• NOAA Photo Library (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
• Southeast Asian Images and Texts Project
• Time Life Photo Sight
• UM Image Source
• World Digital Library

CINEMA

COMMUNICATION

DANCE

HISTORY

HUMANITIES

JOURNALISM

LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

LITERATURE

LITERATURE - BOOK REVIEWS
In general, you want to avoid Internet reviews that are "reader written"; you want only reviews from credible, authoritative review publishers.   Some of these include:

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

• Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
• Bookhive: Your Guide to Children's Literature and Books - A web site designed for children ages birth through twelve, their parents, teachers or anyone interested in reading about children's books. Providing reader's advisory service, this site contains hundreds of recommended book reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest areas.
• BookMuse - An interesting site that offers reviews, notes and overviews of various books and includes a section devoted to children with book groups, recommended titles, and interviews.
• The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
• Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism
• Children's Literature
• The Children's Literature Web Guide - This site contains commentary on children's books, discussion areas, references to children's bestsellers, and links for parents, teachers, and storytellers.
• Childrenslit.com
• Classic Reader
• DeGrummond Children's Literature Collection
• Fairrosa CyberLibrary of Children's Literature
• The Four Learning Styles
• Harry Potter
• The Horn Book - Contains various children's literature authors and offers current children's literature news, a virtual history exhibit, and a list of some of the best children's books of the year.
• International Children's Digital Library
• ISLMC Children's Literature and Language Arts Resources - Useful tool for teachers and parents for resources related to children's literature in education.
• Kristine O'Connell George's Children's Poetry Corner - Website is devoted to her children's poetry and also includes teaching guides, article clips, and writing techniques for young poets.
• Learning Styles
• Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligence
• L390 Children's Literature: Lecture Notes & Slides - The following pages contain notes and images relatitve to the Toupounce lecture for L390. All images on these web pages are from the Elizabeth Ball collection of children's books in the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
• Lists of Children's Books - This site lists of award winning, recommended, banned, and specific topic books.
• Multicultural Fiction Books at Ohio University Libraries
• Multiple Intelligences Pages
• Multiple Intelligence Inventory
• Online Children's Stories
• Paradise Valley Community College Library Internet Links – K-12 Resources
• Resources for Teachers - This site has a substantial list of web sites pertaining to children's literature. If students plan to teach children's literature, this site will be a valuable resource. Within the site are teacher's resource centers, teaching ideas, lesson plans, book ideas, and other helpful resources.
• Writing 4 Children - Children's Writing Supersite - A site by Children's Book Insider, a newsletter for children's writers. There are tips for beginning writers, library links to articles and tools for children's literature, and the latest children's bestsellers. If students are interested in writing literature for children, this site may be beneficial.
  

LITERARY AWARDS & BESTSELLERS

• BESTSELLERS
  • The New York Times - Best sellers list for fiction & nonfiction.
  • BookSense Bestseller List
  • Cader Books Bestseller Lists - List of bestselling hardcover books from Publisher's Weekly for 1900 - 1995.
  • Book Sense Bestsellers - Based on sales from independent book sellers across America.
  • CRITICAS: Spanish Language Bestsellers - An English speaker's guide to the latest Spanish language titles.
  • Reader's Read Best Sellers -
  • USA Today's Best Selling Books Database - Best-selling books from USA Today. Top 50 list. Top 150 list. Best sellers by category.
    
• LITERARY AWARDS -
  • ALA-YASA - Book Lists & Book Awards
  • AwardWeb - A collection of lists of literary award winners with an emphasis on science fiction awards.
  • The Book Award Annals - Lists of nominees and winners grouped by year.
  • Fiction Awards (Burnaby Public Library) - A collection of lists of fiction award winners.
  • Christy Awards - The best of Christian fiction written by contemporary authors.
  • Children's Book Awards - Children's Literature Web Guide..
  • Reader's Read Book Awards
    

LITERARY RESEARCH

• 4Literature
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
• Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
• Bibliomania
• Booknotes (interviews of authors from 12 years worth of C-SPAN's Booknotes TV program)
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
• Classic Reader
• English Literature on the Web
• Literary Research Library Guide
• Literary Resources on the Net
• Internet Classics Archives
• Internet Public Library -- Literature (click on Arts & Humanities)
• Internet Writing Journal - Current book reviews.
• On-Line Books Page, The
• Metronet Ebook Project
• The Reader's Advisory Online Blog - The readers’s advisory librarian’s weekly update, from a scan of more than 100 blogs, newsletters, magazines, newspapers and television.
• Reader's Read Book Reviews
• RhymeZone Shakespeare Search
• Short Stories at East of the Web
• Search Ebooks.com
• University of Florida's Electronic Books Pathfinder
• Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875

SHAKESPEARE

• Complete Plays of William Shakespeare - Google
• Collected Works of Shakespeare
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Internet Shakespeare Edition
• Oxford Shakespeare
• Project Gutenberg
• RhymeZone Shakespeare Search
• Shakespeare Illustrated
• Shakespeare Library Guide
• Shakespeare Magazine
• Shakespeare Oxford Society
• Shakespeare Resource Center
• The Shakespeare Web
• Shakespearean Insulter   
• Shakespearean Insult
  

MUSIC

MYTHOLOGY

PHILOSOPHY

PHOTOGRAPHY

PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS

• Photograph Collections-Librarians Index to the Internet

HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

• Albumen Photographs: History, Science and Preservation
• America's First Look into the Camera
• American Museum of Photography
• American Photographs: The First Century
• American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS
• Fox Talbot Museum
• History of Photography: from its beginnings till the 1920's
• Daguerreian Society
• Magic Mirror of Life, The: An Appreciation of the Camera Obscura
• PhotoHistory: History of Japanese Photography
• Picturing the Century: 100 Years of Photography

PHOTOGRAPHERS

• Ansel Adams -
  • Ansel Adams at 100
  • Ansel Adams at Grace Cathedral
  • Ansel Adams Gallery
• Mathew Brady - Mathew Brady's National Portrait Gallery: A Virtual Tour
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo
• Lucien Clergue - Lucien Clergue's Signs of Gods and Goddesses
• Edward S. Curtis -
  • Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
  • Frontier Photographer: Edward S. Curtis
  • The Curtis Collection
• Walker Evans - Walker Evans Revolutionizes Documentary Photography
• William Gedney: Photographs and Writings
• William P. Gottlieb - Photographs From the Golden Age of Jazz
• Dorothea Lange -
  • Dorothea Lange
  • Artcyclopedia Search: Dorothea Lange [American Photographer, 1895-1965
• Lee Miller
• Charles Moore - Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
• Man Ray - Man Ray: Photothèque Numérique/Digital Photographic Library
• Sam Reiss - Sam Reiss: An Eyewitness to Labor History, 1948-1975
• Robert Runyon - The South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon Collection
• Alan Siegel - One Man's Eye: Photographs from the Alan Siegel Collection
• Erwin E. Smith - Cowboy Photographer: Erwin E. Smith
• Alfred StieglitzIké Udé - Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé
• Edward Weston
• Margaret Bourke-White - Photographing the Representative American: Margaret Bourke-White in the Depression
• National Geographic's Women Photographers

POETRY

POPULAR CULTURE

RELIGION

RELIGION - RELIGIOUS TEXTS

THEATER

WORLD LITERATURE

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