Collections of Art and Architecture on the Web
Because of its origins, this page still has a strong Renaissance emphasis, but I am enlarging it to be useful for all periods and styles of Western art and architecture. Some great new architectural sites have appeared on the web!
PAINTING SCULPTURE ARCHITECTURE
PAINTING
Carol Gerten Jackson
- the work of several years, this site holds a now enormous
collection of high quality images scanned by Carol Gerten herself. Images
are indexed alphabetically by artist and geographically by date. Do not
link to the images, or you will bring down her server! Link to the index
pages only.
The Web Gallery of Art
- a very useful collection of images catalogued alphabetically by
artist. Excellent scans and plenty of them. Bit thin outside Renaissance and Baroque.
Olga's Gallery
- very useful resource indeed. Includes restorations that aren't yet well-represented on the web and images that tend to be omitted from other collections. And also very useful, each image links to a brief explanatory text about the relevant myth, saint, legend, or whatever.
Artcyclopedia: The Guide to
Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
- an excellent resource. Search for artists alphabetically, and
bring up a list of links to all the good-quality images of their works on
the web. Fantastic idea!
The Web Museum, Artist
Index LINK FIXED 18th December, 2000
- very patchy but worth checking out. Mostly text, but can have
quite good images.
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Words and Images - Index
of Artists
- also in Italian but even easier to navigate. Each link is
annotated to tell you which works are illustrated, and the
scans are excellent.
Orazio Centaro's Art Images on
the Web - Painters
- alphabetical index pointing to resources on the web - therefore
patchy in quantity and quality, but a useful resource.
Mark Harden's Artchive
- a good resource, if slow to load. It includes one of Leonardo's
drawings, which is unusual. Quality is superlative.
The Tigertail Museum -
First Floor
- a virtual museum with patchy quantity and quality, and a number of
the pics seem rather "rosy" to me. The first floor has Renaissance and
Baroque painting and sculpture.
National Gallery
of Art, Washington
- wide range of images; their scans are glorious and often
include blown up details. Very nice site.
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SCULPTURE
THAIS - Renaissance
Sculpture
- an enormous collection of images listed alphabetically by artist.
This site is very slow because all the thumbnail images are grouped on a
single page per period. But give it time. They are excellent images.
THAIS - Baroque
Sculpture
- again by THAIS, and has the same problems as the link above, but
this is probably the most complete collection of Italian Baroque sculpture
on the web.
Orazio Centaro's Art Images on
the Web - Sculptors
- alphabetical directory to collected sources on the web. Images
vary in quality and are patchy in quantity, but a useful resource
nonetheless.
The
Digital Imaging Project - Sculpture and Architecture
- an indexed
collection of links to sculpture and architecture. Nice scans, but the
collection is incomplete. Good place to start for sculpture, but you will
need to supplement it.
Art Images for College
Teaching, Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture and Architecture
- nicely organised site with black and white thumbnails on the index
page to assist fast loading. Click for good colour reproductions. The
only problem is that the sculpture sections are very limited yet.
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ARCHITECTURE
BIG Buildings
- fantastically useful and high quality site for mostly modern architecture and some historic. Take time to explore it fully. It has large collections of excellent images inside and out for each building except for the historic section which is rather notional. Can be slow, but worth it.
Vitruvio.ch
- a good starting point for architecture, sorted by architect, type, period and location, and with links to specialized sites. Good quality pics and information.
Great Buildings Online
- this project is still developing, so it has some tremendous stuff and then suddenly lets you down. Always worth checking, though.
Glass Steel and Stone
useful and wide ranging site for modern and historic architecture. The photos are all taken and owned by the site author or submitters so can be somewhat grainy, but useful and rare nonetheless.
Magnificent Views with High Voltage
- now here's something interesting: a site full of photos of pylons. You do really want to see these, for art historical and plain enjoyment reasons.
Daniel's Manhattan Architecture
- lovely site indeed with an annoying drag to his new site just when you think you get going. Worth putting up with it though. Great pics.
Early Century Manhattan
- also from Daniel above, but an interesting collection of older Manhattan architecture.
About.Com Great Buildings
- tiresome site with too many graphics that reload unnecessarily on every page and slow it down, AND javascript errors that can usually be ignored but also slow things down. But it has links to a smallish range of stuff that lead to mixed quality pages with a few pics each. I use it to fill gaps.
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