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- Art History on Wikipedia
- History of Art on Wikipedia
- Glossaries of art terms used in the history of art
- Art Historians
- BOOKS: Overviews of the history of art
- Art History Resource sites
- Western Art History on Wikipedia
- Stylistic Periods in Western Art - on Wikipedia
- Western Painting on Wikipedia
- Eastern Art History on Wikipedia
- Timelines
- BOOKS: Overviews of Art History
- Museums and Art Galleries in the UK
- Museums and Art Galleries in Europe
- Museums and Art Galleries in the USA
- Museums and Art Galleries in Australasia & Pacific
- Online Art History Sites
- Art History Fans and their websites and blogs
- Making A Mark
- Comments and Suggestions
Art History on Wikipedia
Art history is the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and look."Art History". WordNet Search - 3.0, princeton.edu Moreover, art history generally is the research of artists and their cultural and social contributions.Connections:
As a term, Art history (also history of art) encompasses several methods of studying the visual arts; in common usage referring to the study of works of art and architecture. The definition is, however, wide-ranging, with aspects of the discipline overlapping upon art criticism and art theory. Ernst Gombrich observed that "the field of art history is much like Caesar's Gaul, divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians".Ernst Gombrich (1996). The Essential Gombrich, p. 7. London: Phaidon Press
As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual works with respect to others of comparable style, or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and art theory, which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art, and is more related to aesthetics investigating the enigma of the sublime and determining the essence of beauty, i.e. artistic appeal. Technically, art history is not these things, because the art historian uses historical method to answer the questions: How did the artist come to create the work? Who were the patrons? Who were his or her teachers? Who was the audience? Who were his or her disciples? What historical forces shaped the artists oeuvre and How did he or she and the creation, in turn, affect the course of artistic, political, and social events?''
History of Art on Wikipedia
The history of art usually refers to the history of the visual arts, such as painting, sculpture and architecture. The term also encompasses theory of the visual arts. It is not usually taken or intended to refer to the performing arts or literary arts. The history of art attempts an objective survey of art throughout human history, classifying cultures and periods and noting their distinguishing features and influences.
The field of "art history" was developed in the West, and originally dealt exclusively with Western painting, and Western art history, with the High Renaissance (and its Greek precedent) as the defining standard. Gradually, with the onset of Modernism, a wider vision of history has developed, seeking to place other societies in a global overview by analyzing their artifacts in terms of their own cultural values. Thus, the subject is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China.
Glossaries of art terms used in the history of art
- Tate Museum | Glossary
- The Tate Glossary online is designed to explain and illuminate some of the art terminology you will find in the collection pages. It contains definitions, most with illustrations, of nearly 300 terms including artist groups and art movements, techniques, media and other art jargon.
Terms are listed alphabetically - to browse the glossary choose a letter from A to Z above.
Most definitions are illustrated by example images - Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians - Section of Art Libraries
- A multilingual glossary designed for Art Librarians by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Gossary is organised alphabetically - with multilingual indices. All English terms contain their Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish equivalent. - ArtLex Art Dictionary
- Great reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art education. Definitions of thousands of terms, illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources.
- Greek artists - Greek fine art - art glossary
- A glossary of art terms on a personal website
- University of British Columbia - Words of Art
- Creative Studies at UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C., CANADA
- Glossary of Visual Art Terms - Nancy Doyle Fine Art
- Definitions of visual art terms, including drawing, painting, art history, design, space, color, techniques, and more.
Art Historians
- Dictionary of Art Historians
- The Dictionary of Art Historians
A Biographical Dictionary of Historic Scholars, Museum Professionals and Academic Historians of Art - AAH | Association of Art Historians
- The Association of Art Historians (AAH) was formed in 1974 to support and promote the study of art history. We are the national organisation for professional art and design historians, researchers or students who are involved in education, galleries, museums and art-related publishing, or any other activity linked with art and design history.
The AAH represents the interests of those involved in all aspects of the discipline, including art, design, visual culture, architecture, film, photography, conservation and museum studies. - Category:Art historians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Art Historians on Wikipedia
BOOKS: Overviews of the history of art
books on Amazon
The Story of Art: Pocket Edition
This is widely regarded as one of the most influential books in the history of art. It's small and easy to read.
Gombrich's was specifically created for newcomers to art. He presents the whole of art history in a chronological order. It's a narrative and Gombrich has a view of art - most of all he believes that that the love of art, not the love of history, is the appropriate basis for its study.
This book is both accessible and informative.
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30,000 Years of Art
This book is ENORMOUS. It has 1,000 colour plates which demonstrate how art has changed over 30,000 years in different cultures by reference to specific examples which are explained in detail.
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The Power of Art
Produced to go with the BBC series - now being shown around the world.
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Art History For Dummies (For Dummies (Lifestyles Paperback))
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Art History Resource sites
- ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Contents
- Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Professor, Dept of Art HistorySweet Briar College, Virginia. Online since 24 October 1995
"Art history in just a minute" - Best of History Web Sites: Art History
- Visit Best of History Web Sites for the best Art History sites -- reviewed and rated
An excellent list although somewhat biased towards the USA - ArtLex Art Dictionary
- Great reference material in art, art history, art criticism, aesthetics, and art education. Definitions of thousands of terms, illustrations, quotations, and links to other resources.
- ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Research Resources
- Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Professor, Dept of Art HistorySweet Briar College, Virginia
Online since 24 October 1995.
Research Resources - Last updated January 2008 - WWW Virtual Library: Art History
- The History of Art Virtual Library is a collection of links relating to Art History and computer applications in Art History. The site is sponsored by CHArt, the Computers and History of Art Group.
This site is aimed at everybody interested in art, but it has a special focus on the academic study of Art History. If you think we should add a site to our listings, or if you experience any problems with the links listed here, please follow this link to email us.
If you are looking for art galleries or museums, go to the Museums Virtual Library.
There are also extensive resources at specialised Virtual Libraries covering e.g. Chinese and Japanese Art History and Art and Archaeology of Africa, Burmese Art, and Indian Traditional Arts. Search for 'art' at VLsearch.
Last revision May 2007
Also relevant to those with a general interest n art history and who would like to find images online or learn more about particular artists.(Note specialist suppliers sell books, prints and posters and the online teaching section also includes some material suitable for younger children.) - Mother of all Art and Art History Links Page
- Sponsored by the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan
- Resource Library: America's Representational Art Publication
- Resource Library is an online publication of Traditional Fine Arts Organization devoted to American representational art, including aspects of both a scholarly journal and a popular magazine. It maintains a balance between both emphases, while building an interconnected body of knowledge including the relationships of American artists to their teachers in foreign nations and America, the history of American art centers, schools, ateliers and museums, the evolution of methods and styles of artistic expression, and changing cultural emphases over time within its field of interest.
- Art Renewal International
- The Art Renewal Center website. Here you can see the largest online museum in the world, articles, and additional materials. For the main ARC page, see http://www.artrenewal.org/
- Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History
- Geographic Tour of American Representational Art History
The Hudson River School is the earliest thematic community
of American artists. The Cape Ann art colony is the oldest, most continuously
active art colony in America
Western Art History on Wikipedia
Also see articles: History of painting, Western painting
'Western Art redirects here. For art of the American West, see Artists of the American West
Western art is the art of Europe, and those parts of the world that have come to follow predominantly European cultural traditions such as the Americas.
Written histories of Western art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East, Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Aegean civilisations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Parallel with these significant cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by Rome and carried, with the Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
The influence of the art of the Classical period waxed and waned throughout the next two thousand years, seeming to slip into a distant memory in the Medieval period, to re-emerge in the Renaissance, suffer a period of what some early art historians viewed as "decay" during the Baroque period,Banister Fletcher excluded nearly all Baroque buildings from his mammoth tome A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method''. The publishers eventually rectified this. to reappear in a refined form in Neo-Classicism and to be re-born in Post-Modernism.
The other major influence upon Western art has been Christianity, the commissions of the Church, architectural, painterly and sculptural, providing the major source of work for artists for about 1400 years, from 300 AD to about 1700 AD. The history of the Church was very much reflected in the history of art, during this period.
Secularism has influenced Western art since the Classical period, while most art of the last 200 years has been produced without reference to religion and often with no particular ideology at all. On the other hand, Western art has often been influenced by politics of one kind or another, of the state, of the patron and of the artist.
Western art is arranged into a number of stylistic periods, which, historically, overlap each other as different styles flourished in different areas. Broadly the periods are, Classical, Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern. Each of these is further subdivided.
Stylistic Periods in Western Art - on Wikipedia
- Medieval art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Medieval art From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about art. See also medieval architecture.
Medieval art covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art history in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves.
Art historians classify Medieval art into major periods and movements. They are Early Christian art, Migration Period art, Celtic art, Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque art, Gothic art, Byzantine art and Islamic art. In addition each "nation" or culture in the Middle Ages had its own distinct artistic style and these are looked at individually, such as Anglo-Saxon art or Viking art. Medieval art includes many mediums, and was especially strong in sculpture, Illuminated manuscripts and mosaics. There were many unique genres of art, such as Crusade art or animal style. - Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Renaissance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the European Renaissance of the 14th-17th centuries. For the earlier European Renaissance, see Renaissance of the 12th century.
The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth"; Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere "be born"[1]) was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of western Europe. It encompassed a revival of learning based on classical sources, the development of linear perspective in painting, and educational reform. The Renaissance saw developments in most intellectual pursuits, but is perhaps best known for its artistic aspect and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who have inspired the term "Renaissance men". - Mannerism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Mannerism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mannerism is a period of European painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts lasting from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 until the arrival of the Baroque around 1600. Stylistically, it identifies a variety of individual approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Mannerism is notable for its intellectual as well as its artificial (as opposed to naturalistic) qualities.
- Baroque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Baroque From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural epoch, commencing roughly at the turn of the 17th century in Rome. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement. The aristocracy also saw the dramatic style of Baroque architecture and art as a means of impressing visitors and expressing triumphant power and control.
Some traits and aspects of Baroque paintings that differentiate this style from others are the abundant amount of details, often bright polychromy, less realistic faces of subjects, and an overall sense of awe, which was one of the goals in Baroque art. - Neoclassicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Neoclassicism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture (usually that of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome). These movements were dominant during the mid 18th to the end of the 19th century. This article addresses what these "neoclassicisms" have in common.
In the visual arts the European movement called "neoclassicism" began after ca 1765, as a reaction against both the surviving Baroque and Rococo styles, and as a desire to return to the perceived "purity" of the arts of Rome, the more vague perception ("ideal") of Ancient Greek arts (where almost no western artist had actually been) and, to a lesser extent, 16th century Renaissance Classicism.
Contrasting with the Baroque and the Rococo, Neo-classical paintings are devoid of pastel colors and haziness; instead, they have sharp colors with Chiaroscuro. - Romanticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Romanticism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution.[1] It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature.
The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as trepidation, horror, and the awe experienced in confronting the sublimity in untamed nature and its qualities that are "picturesque", both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk art and custom, as well as arguing for a "natural" epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of language, custom and usage. - Realism (visual arts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Realism (visual arts) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Realism is a visual art style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. Realists render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in verisimilitude. They tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and classical forms in favor of commonplace themes.
Gustave Courbet is credited with coining the term.
A fondness for humble subjects and homely details characterizes much of Dutch art, and Rembrandt is an outstanding realist in his renunciation of the ideal and his embrace of the life around him. In the 19th century a group of French landscape artists known as the Barbizon School emphasized close observation of nature, paving the way for the Impressionists. In England the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rejected what they saw as the formulaic idealism of the followers of Raphael, which led some of them to an art of intense realism.
Trompe l'oeil (literally, "fool the eye"), a technique which creates the illusion that the objects depicted actually exist, is an extreme example of artistic realism. - Modern art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Modern art From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic work reckoned anywhere from the early 17th century until the present time.[1] (Recent art production is often called Contemporary art or Postmodern art). Modern art refers to the new approach to art which placed emphasis on representing emotions, themes, and various abstractions. Artists experimented with new ways of seeing, with fresh ideas about the nature of materials and functions of art, often moving further toward abstraction.
The notion of modern art is closely related to Modernism. - Contemporary art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Contemporary art From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced since World War II.
This article includes links to the various art movements in every decade since WWII
Western Painting on Wikipedia
- Western painting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Western painting From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity.[1] Until the early 20th century it relied primarily on representational and Classical motifs, after which time more purely abstract and conceptual modes gained favor.
Developments in Western painting historically parallel those in Eastern painting, in general a few centuries later.[2] African art, Islamic art, Indian art,[3] Chinese art, and Japanese art[4] each had significant influence on Western art, and, eventually, vice-versa.[5]
Initially serving religious patronage, Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy and the middle class. From the Middle Ages through the Renaissance painters worked for the church and a wealthy aristocracy. Beginning with the Baroque era artists received private commissions from a more educated and prosperous middle class. By the 19th century painters became liberated from the demands of their patronage to only depict scenes from religion, mythology, portraiture or history. The idea "art for art's sake" began to find expression in the work of painters like Francisco de Goya, John Constable, and J.M.W. Turner.
Western painting's zenith takes place in Europe, during the Renaissance in conjunction with the refinement of drawing, use of perspective, ambitious architecture, tapestry, stained glass, sculpture, and the period before and after the advent of the printing press.[6] Following the depth of discovery and the complexity of innovations of the Renaissance the rich heritage of Western painting (from the Baroque to Contemporary art) continues into the 21st century.
Eastern Art History on Wikipedia
Eastern art history is devoted to the arts of the Far East and includes a vast range of influences from various cultures and religions. The emphasis is on art history amongst many diverse cultures in Asia. Developments in Eastern art historically parallel those in Western art, in general a few centuries earlier.The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art, Revised and Expanded edition (Hardcover)by Michael Sullivan, African art, Islamic art, Indian art,[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9...
Timelines
- Timelines/Regions, 500-1000 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Timelines/Regions, 500-1000 A.D. SubjectArtistTimelines/RegionsThematic EssaysAccession NumberLists of RulersUseful LinksSelected Readings site map, outline, timelines, maps, geography, world regions, country, continent, chronology What is th
BOOKS: Overviews of Art History
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- The National Gallery, London
- The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free.
- National Galleries of Scotland
- National Galleries of Scotland is comprised of the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Dean Gallery and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
- Tate Online: British and international modern and contemporary art
- Tate is a family of four art galleries housing the UK's collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art.
- National Portrait Gallery
- The National Portrait Gallery was established with the criteria that the Gallery was to be about history, not about art, and about the status of the sitter, rather than the quality or character of a particular image considered as a work of art. This criterion is still used by the Gallery today when deciding which works enter the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
Originally, it was decided by the Trustees that "No portrait of any person still living, or deceased less that 10 years, shall be admitted by purchase, donation, or bequest, except only in the case of the reigning Sovereign, and of his or her Consort". This rule changed in 1969 in order to encourage a policy of admitting living sitters. - Royal Academy Home - Royal Academy of Arts
- This is the website of the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The Royal Academy has free exhibitions and paid-entry exhibitions all year round in its historic galleries on Piccadilly in London's West End. On this site you can buy tickets for our exhibitions and read more about the Royal Academy of Arts,
- The Courtauld Gallery : Homepage
- The Courtauld Gallery is one of the finest small museums in the world. Its collection stretches from the early Renaissance into the 20th century and is particularly renowned for the unrivalled collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The Gallery also holds an outstanding collection of drawings and prints and fine example of sculpture and decorative arts
- Christ Church Website - Picture Gallery
- Christ Church is unique among the Oxford and Cambridge colleges in possessing an important collection of Old Master paintings and drawings, housed in a purpose-built Gallery of considerable architectural interest in itself.
- British Museum - Welcome to the British Museum
- Welcome to the British Museum website. The Museum houses a vast collection of world art and artefacts and is free to all visitors. Search highlight objects of the collection and view current research projects. Find information about visiting, including admission and opening times, events and exhibit
- Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
- The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art opened in Islington, London in 1998. Its new home - a Grade II listed Georgian building - was restored with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and contains six galleries, an art library, cafe and bookshop.
Museums and Art Galleries in Europe
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (International access)
- International gateway for different languages
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (English)
- The Prado in Madrid houses some great paintings
Opening hours of the museum
From 9am to 8pm: Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays.
From 9am to 2pm: 24 December, 31 December and 6 January. - Prado - 15 Masterpieces
- 15 Masterpieces in the Prado - image and narrative
- The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium,
- The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, de Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van Belgi%uFFFD,
- Centre Pompidou
- Centre Pompidou
In a unique location under one roof, the Centre Pompidou houses one of the most important museums in the world, featuring the leading collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, a vast public reference library with facilities for over 2,000 readers, general documentation on 20th century art, a cinema and performance halls, a music research institute, educational activity areas, bookshops, a restaurant and a café. - Inicio | Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
- Guggenheim Museum Bilbao website.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by North American architect Frank O. Gehry, is a magnificent example of the most groundbreaking architecture to have come out of the 20th century. The building itself is an innovatively designed architectural landmark that creates a seductive backdrop for the exhibition of contemporary art. - The State Hermitage Museum
- The State Hermitage Museum: English Home Page
The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings situated along the embankment of the River Neva, right in the heart of St Petersburg. The leading role in this unique architectural ensemble is played by the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian tsars - The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour
- Virtual Tour of the Hermitage
- Louvre Museum Official Website
- The official site of the Louvre Museum (Paris, France) : Collection & Departments, Exhibitions, Guided Tours, Virtual Tours, Calendar, History of the Louvre, Gardens, Concerts, Lectures & Symposia, Readings & Performances, Opening Hours
Museums and Art Galleries in the USA
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: metmuseum.org
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Web site features information on upcoming museum events, fine art exhibits, special exhibitions, the Met collection and art galleries online.
- The Art Institute of Chicago: Home:
- The Art Institute of Chicago, founded in 1879 as both a museum and school, first stood on the southwest corner of State and Monroe Streets. It opened on its present site at Michigan Avenue and Adams Street in 1893. Built on rubble from the 1871 Chicago fire, the museum housed a collection of plaster casts and had a visionary purpose: to acquire and exhibit art of all kinds and to conduct programs of education. The collection now encompasses more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world, and the school's graduate program is continually ranked as one of the best in the country. Within the next decade, a new complex will continue this process of growth.
- MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art
- The Museum of Modern Art's Web site provides information on current and upcoming art, film and media, and online exhibitions; highlights from MoMA's ...
- MFA Boston: Home
- Museum of Fine Art in Boston
The original MFA opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876, the nation's centennial. Built in Copley Square, the MFA was then home to 5,600 works of art. Over the next several years, the collection and number of visitors grew exponentially, and in 1909 the Museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue.
Today the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. It welcome welcome more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs. - National Gallery of Art
- The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art, at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.
The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington. In 1937, the year of his death, he promised his collection to the United States. Funds for the construction of the West Building were provided by The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. On March 17, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the completed building and the collections on behalf of the people of the United States of America.
The paintings and works of sculpture given by Andrew Mellon have formed a nucleus of high quality around which the collections have grown.
The NGA is open 363 days of the year at no charge to visitors. - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - de Young - Legion of Honor
- The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) is the city's largest public arts institution. Comprising the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor, FAMSF is also the city's most successful public/private partnership. Although a designated city department, most of the Museums' operational funding and all funding for art acquisitions and exhibitions are raised privately.
- MFAH: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.
There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of public gardens.
A total of 300,000 square feet of space is dedicated to the display of art. The Hirsch Library is one of the largest art libraries in the Southwest.
More than 2.5 million people visit the MFAH each year. Community outreach programs touch the lives of more than 670,000 people each year. - The Barnes Foundation
- The Barnes Foundation - Home
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts." Located in a twelve-acre arboretum, the Foundation is home to one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, Renoir and Modigliani, as well as important examples of African sculpture. The Gallery and Arboretum are open to the public ( reservations are required), and courses in aesthetics and horticulture are available through the education department. - Harvard University Art Museums
- The Harvard University Art Museums-a leading center for research and teaching in the visual arts comprised of three museums and four research centers-today announced that it is changing its name to the Harvard Art Museum, effective April 30, 2008. The new name, selected because it better expresses the institution's mission, grows out of an initiative to further unify and integrate the museum's collections and programs.
The Harvard Art Museum will maintain the identity of its three museums, the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, as well as its research centers, among them the Straus Center for Conservation. - The Getty
- The official Web site of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, California.
- Guggenheim Museum - New York
Museums and Art Galleries in Australasia & Pacific
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- The Art Gallery of New South Wales is the leading museum of art in New South Wales and Sydney, and one of Australia's foremost cultural institutions. It holds significant collections of Australian, European and Asian art, and presents nearly 40 exhibitions annually.
- National Gallery of Australia
- Parkes Place
Parkes, Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA - Queensland Art Gallery - Home Page
- The Queensland Art Gallery is Queensland's premier visual arts institution and a leading art museum nationally. Established in 1895, since 1982, it has had a permanent home in an architecturally acclaimed building on Brisbane's south bank.
- Welcome to The Art Gallery of South Australia
- The Art Gallery of South Australia
- Art Gallery of Western Australia Website
- Welcome to the Art Gallery of Western Australia | Perth Cultural Centre
Online Art History Sites
- ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Museums & Galleries
- Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe Professor, Dept of Art HistorySweet Briar College, Virginia
Online since 24 October 1995
Museums & GalleriesLast updated September 2007
SITE INDEX for Museums & Galleries in various countries around the world - Art cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
- The Artcyclopedia is an index of online museums and image archives: find out where the works of over 8,000 different fine artists can be viewed online.
Excellent for tracking down where the works are of a particular artist. - Mark Harden's Artchive
- Worth exploring for the parts most people don't realise are there
- WebMuseum: Bienvenue! (Welcome from the curator)
- Nicholas Pioch's website - Online since 1994
- Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850)
- The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 18,400 reproductions.
Biographies, commentaries, guided tours, free postcar - Distinguished Artists / American Art History
- Online catalogs and links to
works of notable American painters and sculptors. - Welcome to The Athenaeum
- What is The Athenaeum?
The Athenaeum is building a set of online tools for studying the humanities.
Art History Fans and their websites and blogs
- Haber Arts
- Reviews by John Haber of New York City art galleries and museums
Making A Mark
Katherine Tyrrell's blog about: - Making marks with pastels, pencils and pen and ink - Creating new drawings and paintings - Influences on developing both artwork and art careers - Interviews with artists - Information about resources for artists and art
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mrssnowy
Back to give your lens 5 stars - I seem to have created a lens for myself in the process. When I work out what I'm doing I'll add your lens to it. Posted April 12, 2008 |
It deserves 5 stars. A wonderful door into everything I've always wanted to know and where to find it!
Posted April 12, 2008
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LaraineRose
Good Art History resource. Thank you for doing all the legwork on this. I've lensrolled your lens to my Art lens and given you your first 5 stars on this lens. I'm very impressed with all the lenses I've read by you on Art - soon you'll be a squid. Posted April 09, 2008 |
