Art History Resources on the Web
(Chris Witcombe)
The art of Renaissance science
Essay on ‘the genius of Galileo and the relation between his role in the Scientific Revolution and the equally remarkable achievements of Renaissance artists’ (Joseph W Dauben)
The Art of William Hogarth
Described as ‘a comprehensive exhibition of early impressions of his work’, the quality of the images is very good and it’s easy to navigate (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
Renaissance Art Resources
Baroque Art Resources
Eighteenth-century Art Resources
links resources for individual artists, types of art, themes (Chris Witcombe)
Artchive
Extensive and wide-ranging resource for images and information about artists (Mark Harden)
Artpix
An excellent art resource: 15th/16th-century Netherlandish and 17th-century Dutch painters, and some Italian renaissance (Bernard Huyvaert) (NB: Wayback Archive: I cannot guarantee that all the images will have been archived)
Digital Archive of American Architecture
Photographs of a range of forms of architecture, from wigwams to industrial buildings (Jeffery Howe)
Eighteenth-century Illustrations and Prints
Bibliography (James May)
English Caricature Prints 1720-1820
A useful resource (Haley Steele) (NB: Wayback Archive)
French and Italian Painting 18th century
‘online tours’ and in-depth studies of selected artists (National Gallery of Art, US)
The Hogarth Archive
A substantial collection of images let down by its lack of aids to navigation (University of Wales, Lampeter)
An Image-oriented Introduction to Backgrounds for Renaissance Literature
Images and texts for students of a literature course, aimed at suggesting the ideas and concerns to be encountered in British Renaissance literature (Herman Asanow)
Italy on the Grand Tour
website for three exhibitions held in 2002 on the 18th century Grand Tour in Italy; contains overview and selected images (Getty Exhibitions)
Jan Vermeer
(World Art Treasures)
The Last Supper in Detail
high-quality digitised version of The Last Supper (HAL9000)
National Gallery Permanent Collection online
The London National Gallery’s permanent collection of western European paintings spans the period from about 1250 to 1900
Rembrandt 400
website to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth; largely geared to selling you stuff, but does include information on his life and works (Netherlands Board of Tourism and Conventions)
Rembrandt Links (MyStudios)
Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
A collection of photographs ranging from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries; mainly Italian but some French and English examples (C W Westfall)
Seeing What Shakespeare Means
online exhibit, uses woodcut prints to help visualise unfamiliar vocabular in Shakespeare’s plays (Folger Library)
Timeline of Art History
A truly amazing resource for art and visual culture around the world throughout human history (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Virtue and Beauty: Renaissance portraits of women
exhibit that focuses on ‘the flowering of female portraiture in Florence from c. 1440 to c. 1540′ (National Gallery of Art, US)
The Web Gallery of Art
A vast virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture c.1150-1750
The William Blake Archive
a site providing high-quality electronic editions of Blake’s work, which aims to incorporate as much of both his pictorial and literary works as possible, to “give scholars and students access to the major intersections between the illuminated books and Blake’s other creative and commercial works” (Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities)
Women Who Ruled: Queens, Goddesses, Amazons 1500-1650
Online seminar, based on an exhibition, that explores visual images of powerful women in 16th- and 17th-century Europe (University of Michigan)
