Resources
Smarthistory is one of the most-visited art history websites in the world. It offers a mix of essays and videos from knowledgeable contributors that will appeal to both novices and experts. The videos typically focus on a particular cultural location like a gallery or outdoor exhibition.
The subject matter covers all human history; the site is neatly categorized into sections such as Ancient Mediterranean, The Americas to 1900, and The Islamic World for easy navigation. There's also information that helps you appreciate art and appreciate museums in a new light. Example content includes articles about how to interpret surface and depth in paintings and how art galleries can shape a collective national identity. |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the largest art museum in the United States, but its website is a fantastic resource for people who are interested in the history of art.
On the homepage, it's the Art tab which is worth your attention. Within the tab, you'll find a link to the museum's Timeline of Art History. The timeline is a collection of essays, photographs of art, and chronologies from various periods in history. Each section has an overview, a list of key events, a scrollable timeline, and a huge number of associated images of paintings, artifacts, and other artwork. It's hard to get across quite how much information is available. |
Artstor is the most extensive image resource for educational and scholarly use. They bring together media from top museums, archives, scholars, and artists, with a specialized suite of tools for teaching and learning with visual materials — all rights-cleared for education and research. This guide provides an overview of the Artstor Public Collections - CHS does not have access to the full Artstor library!
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The Art Institute’s Arts of the Ancient Mediterranean and Byzantium department showcases the origins and early development of Western art from the dawn of the third millennium BCE to the time of the great Byzantine Empire. It includes examples of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman sculpture in stone, clay, and bronze, as well as coins, glass, jewelry, vases, and mosaics of outstanding quality and interest. There are some 2,300 works of ancient Mediterranean art in the department’s holdings: a strong collection of Greek vases, particularly red-figure technique pieces; Greek and Roman coins, stone sculpture, and jewelry, all showcasing the origins and early development of Western art from the dawn of the third millennium BCE to the time of the great Byzantine Empire.
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The Gallery’s collection of art from the ancient Mediterranean world comprises over 13,000 objects from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome. The collection is also known for its important finds from Yale University’s excavations in the 1920s and 1930s at Dura-Europos (in present-day Syria) and at Gerasa (now Jerash, Jordan).
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