Art and Art History Resources
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Between 500 and 1000, successive waves of conquerors—Ostr.hs, Byzantines, Langobards, Franks, and Arabs—capture and recapture strategic cities in the Italian peninsula and Sicily and erect monuments to assert their legitimacy. Because of the many peoples active in the Italian peninsula, art of the period shows the influence of many different styles.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000-1850)
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 29.000 reproductions.
Covering over 5000 years of the Indian cultural heritage, this collection is a blend Pre-historic Archaeology, Jewellery, Paintings, Decorative arts, and much more.
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Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history
Smarthistory.org is a free and open, not-for-profit, art history textbook. Part of the Khan Academy, we use multimedia to deliver unscripted conversations between art historians about the history of art. We are seeking contributors—especially for canonical non-Western material and other survey topics not yet covered. We welcome comments, feedback and corrections. More >
Essential Vermeer
Essentialvermeer.com has become internet's essential tool for exploring every facet of the life and work of the great 17th-c.
Search All Collections | britishart.yale.edu
Only a small fraction of the Prints and Drawings and half of the Rare Books and Manuscripts collections are available online.
These sites are sources of high-quality, well-cataloged images. Some pertain specifically to art and art history; others are more cross-disciplinary in scope.
Finding Images Online | SULAIR
What Is a Print?
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