Research and Course Guides: ARTH 340: Southern Renaissance Art: Web Sites

Museum Collections

Most major galleries and museums provide searchable access to catalogues and databases of their collections. Search for the title of the gallery or museum and look for links to their catalogues/databases.

Google Art Project
Explore museums all over the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, , with extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine, and Islamic art.
Art Institute of Chicago
Its diverse holdings also include significant Old Master works, American art, European and American decorative arts, Asian art and modern and contemporary art.
MIA
Mia houses more than 80,000 objects from diverse cultural traditions spanning 5,000 years of world history, including examples of Islamic art.
Virtual Uffizi
A searchable database of images in the Uffizi.

Web Gateways Southern Renaissance Art

St.Peter's Basilica, Rome by Viviano Cadazzi (1604-1670)

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Universal Leonardo
Universal Leonardo is a program aimed at deepening our understanding of Leonardo da Vinci through a series of European exhibitions (2006), scientific research and web-based resources.
Art History Resources
An enormous website operating since 1995 and still updated.
St. Peter's of Rome--Great Buildings
The National Gallery
A searchable database of 2300 images housed in The National Gallery, London.
Smithsonian Collection Search Center
A one-stop center of Smithsonian images, videos, sound files and archives with focus on Islamic art.
Art cyclopedia
A comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources.