Visual Arts
Museums and Galleries are listed on a separate page
For prints & printing, see Typography
This section focuses on recent art news.
For scholarly blogs, articles and reference material, see Art History and Museum Research below.
(See also Art in Britain, Historical Images (some HD), Museums)
- Wide-Scope Collections
- Web Gallery of Art (1000-1850, 28,000+ good-quality images: Hungary)
- TerminArtors (very large communal archive with good search tools, postcard-sized images)
- Panopticon Art Gallery (varied collection of good-quality images: mostly Renaissance)
- Museum Syndicate (900+ good-quality images, Renaissance to modern)
- Paleta (140 mostly modern artists: good-quality images)
- About Art History (image galleries from major exhibitions 2006-2011)
- Art Knowledge News (archived images from mostly modern art exhibitions,
up to 2011. The news service was closed 16/4/12)
- Individual Artists
- Bosch, Cranach, Escher,
- Universal Leonardo (Martin Kemp & Marina Wallace)
- Picasso, Raphael (NG,
), Rembrandt, Van Gogh
- Modern Masters (BBC: Dali, Matisse, Picasso, Warhol)
- ArtCyclopedia (artist index: linked to galleries)
- Google Images (refine search: by size, face, drawings, colour)
- Entertainments
- Optical Illusions: Eluzions, Exploratorium
- Classic Interactive Animations (Patrick Smith): Vector Park, Feed The Head
British Sculpture
- Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
- Church Monument Society (Britain by county, in progress,
plus some French regions. With glossaries, links, images)
- Neoclassical British Sculpture (V&A)
- Victorian Sculpture and Sculptors
- Modern British Sculpture (RBS, 1900: PDF)
- Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, Gill, Charles Jagger
- Modern British Sculptors (BBC: Butler, Caro, Deacon, Epstein,
Frink, Gill, Gormley, Hepworth, Long, Moore, Paolozzi, Whiteread, Wilding)
- Henry Moore Foundation (BBC: more Moore )
- Barbara Hepworth (extensive information)
- Contemporary: Members of RBS, Royal Academicians
- Cass Sculpture Foundation (sculptors A-Z)
- Lisson Gallery (contemporary sculptors, incl. Cragg, Deacon, Kapoor, Wei Wei)
- Craftsmen: James Butler, Tony Cragg, Maggi Hambling
- Martin Jennings, Alexander Stoddart, Emily Young
- War: Philip Jackson, Kai Liao, Michael Sandle, Tim Shaw
- Stone Sculpture Miner (tools, stone, supplies: Sam Bell)
- The Joy of Shards (Mosaic Art in UK and Europe)
- The Sculpture Agency (occasional news: Tom Flynn)
- Sculpture in the Landscape
- Hill Figures (comprehensive coverage, old & new, images & histories: Mark Hows)
- Cass Sculpture Foundation (Chichester: rotating exhibitions of 70 contemporary works)
- Jupiter Artland (sculpture and modern land art: Kirknewton, Edinburgh)
- New Art Centre (Roche Court, Salisbury: works by the classic moderns, for sale)
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park (rotating exhibitions of contemporary works)
- Antony Gormley (various urban & rural locations,
)
- News
- Art History News (Bendor Grosvenor, London: news & informed comment)
- Storie Dell' Arte (Serena D'Italia, Sergio Momesso
, with blog links)
- Italia Nostra (supporting cultural heritage: news)
- ApAhAu (art history news & events
)
- Art History Newsletter (US group blog)
- British Art Research Blog (events, British graduate students)
- CODART (Dutch & Flemish Art: news, museum links, eZine)
- Enfilade (18th Century art history)
- Leonardo da Vinci Society (Birkbeck, with newsletters archive)
- Upcoming Renaissance Events: Florence, Elsewhere
- Writing about Artworks
(see also museum publications below)
- Art History Today (David Packwood, Midlands UK: analyses & discussions, especially Poussin)
- ArtWatch UK (Michael Daley, London: analyses of invasive restorations, with archive)
- Three Pipe Problem (Hasan Niyazi, Melbourne: essays on attribution, interpretation & style, archive)
- My Daily Art Display (Jonathan, Conwy: a painting a day, with detailed descriptions)
- Alberti's Window (Monica Bowen: thoughtful & wide-ranging posts)
- Sedef's Corner (Sedef Piker: discussing US, European & Islamic artworks)
- L'historien errant (Christian Opitz: late mediaeval art)
- Every Painter Paints Himself (Simon Abrahams: over-interpreting, often interesting)
- Famous Paintings Reviewed (Susan Benford: cluttered, but useful information)
- The Best Artists (100 Swallows: informal discussions, mostly on Renaissance artists)
- Silver and Exact (Àlvaro, Buenos Aires: a painting a week, often modern)
- Gandalf's Gallery (a painting a day, with brief descriptions)
- This and That (Martin Kemp: occasional notes, mostly on Leonardo)
- Bearded Roman (Micah Christensen: occasional blog)
- Talking about Artworks ,
- smART history (4-20min. dialogues on 320 artworks: Steven Zucker & Beth Harris)
- Canal Educatif à la Demande (10-15min. videos, ten on specific works, 14 on art history: Rémy Diaz)
- V&A Video Channel (a great variety, across all genres,
grouped by People, Things, Events; plus 620 miscellaneous videos on vimeo)
- A Closer Look (15 works in the Louvre, described in superb detail)
- British Museum (Objects, Discussions & Lectures,
A History of the World, 100 15min. podcasts)
- National Gallery London (monthly podcasts)
- Historical Image Collections
- Arachne
(ancient sculpture image archive at Cologne)
- ARTstor (images, some HD, from 150 collections)
,
- J-E Berger Foundation (World Art Treasures: images & thematic essays)
- Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (2 million images of art & architecture)
- Bridgeman Art Library (search tool for 8,000 collections: very small images)
- British Museum Images (postcard-size)
- Courtauld (40,000 art & architecture images)
- Google Art Project (see also the Museums page)
- haltadefinizione (HD images of 20 Italian paintings, watermarked: needs full-screen display)
- Iconography of Art History (K Bender: descriptions of image archives, with links,
specialising in images of Aphrodite. Viewing requires cookies)
- Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (19th & 20th C photos & engravings)
- Last Statues of Antiquity (284-650 AD, small images & 3-level text: top, LSA, discussion. Oxford)
- Warburg Photographic Collection (in progress)
- British Museum (Research Publications Series, some O-A, Technical Research Bulletin)
- Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF: for imaging, see below)
- Courtauld, Metropolitan (bibliography: some URLS are given, but not links)
- National Gallery (Technical Bulletin with images, Raphael Project)
- National Portrait Gallery, Tate (Tate Papers)
- Prado (online reports, restoration images, videos)
- V&A: Archive (introductions to specialist collections)
- Samuel H Kress Foundation (funding US art history projects)
Charisma (links to EU archives & research facilities)
- Conservation & HD Imaging: AIC (US), CAMEO (Online Encyclopaedia)
- Science, Art, Technology (Chicago guide, with Art Conservation Science)
- Institute of Conservation (news, advice), Science Museum, Smithsonian
- Opificio delle Pietre Dure (Firenze), Vatican Secret Archives
- Ashmolean, British Museum (Links)
- Courtauld, Getty, Hamilton Kerr, Metropolitan, MOMA
- National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate
- V&A (Conservation Journal)
- C2RMF Imaging (22 vHD Images from Parisian museums)
- Art-Test (Firenze: non-invasive art diagnostics)
- Lumiere Technology (Pascal Cotte, Paris: vHD multispectral imaging, 13 rather than 3-channel RGB. Half-way
down the page are 5 samples, of Leonardo(?), Bella Principessa, & other paintings: click 'full-screen', hover & zoom with '+' button.)
- Controversies
- Save Rembrandt (Nigel Konstam, Sienna: campaigning against recent re-attributions)
- New Yorker (sceptical article 12/7/10 on La Bella Principessa, Martin Kemp, Peter Paul Biro, & fingerprints)
- Hockney-Falco Hypothesis (Renaissance paintings: done with mirrors? Other Views, Stork)
- Salvator Mundi (by Leonardo? for, against), iconography & provenance (Hasan Niyazi)
Art History: Cambridge, Glasgow, St Andrews, Warwick, York
Villa I Tatti, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, British Institute of Florence
Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, NYU, Pennsylvania, Princeton, USC
ARIAH, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
OU Art History Courses: Teaching Material (especially images, for general use: Philip Resheph)
Writing About Art (introductory guide, 2009: Marjorie Munsterberg)
Resources:
- Wikipedia Architecture Portal
- Royal Institution of British Architects (blog)
- JStor (Journals Archive )
- Glossary of Mediaeval Art and Architecture (Pittsburgh)
- Gothic Glossary (Athena Review)
- Military Architecture (up to 18th C)
- European Abbeys and Cathedrals
- Dictionary of Scottish Architects (1840-1980)
- Dictionary of Irish Architects (1720-1940)
- British Architecture: How We Built Britain (RIBA)
- Britain Express (introductory: David Ross & family)
- Sources for Building History (Jean Manco, last updated 2007)
- Heritage Gateway (English Heritage: with Images, Pastscape)
- Cathedrals (links): England, British Isles
- British Churches (links, by region), Suffolk Churches
- Churches Conservation Trust (340 historic churches)
- English Abbeys: By County, By Order
(98 Benedictine, 73 Augustinian, 49 Cistercian, a few others)
- Cistercian Abbeys in England
- English Castles (information & links: Wikipedia)
- Welsh Castles and Abbeys (Monasteries by Order)
- National Trust, Historic Scotland
- Historic Houses Association (click List button)
- Looking at Buildings (based on Pevsner Guides)
- Victorian Architecture (London)
- English Buildings (Philip Wilkinson: blog)
- Departments: RCA, Bath, Sheffield
- AA, Cambridge (Conflict in Cities)
- Columbia (Avery Architectural Library), Princeton, MIT
- RIBA (British Architectural Library)
- ArchSoc (critiques, rankings)
- UK Architecture Departments (rankings: Guardian)
(HD images of notable buildings which are open to visitors
are now mostly listed by location on the Museums page)
- Materials
- Mediaeval Stained Glass
(Conservation, Bibliography)
- Earth Architecture, Vegiture, Concrete
- Straw Bale Construction
- Brick Development Association ()
- Traditional Bricks (Reclaimed)
- Brick Industry Association ()
- Roman Concrete (David Moore)
- Cast Iron Street Furniture: Heritage, Lost Art
- Musée du Compagnonnage de Tours (works in traditional materials)
- Old House Store (traditional materials supplier)
- Stone Conservation, US Heritage (supplies)
- Lime Mortars (PDF), Working with Lime
Woodworking
- European Carpenters and Carpentry (France: Ministry of Culture)
- English Mediaeval Timber Architecture
- US Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 (Peter Walsh: with plates)
- Rycotewood Furniture Centre (UK National School of Furniture)
- Lost Art Press (woodworking techniques)
- Amateur American Woodworking (20th Century history)
- Fine Woodworking (gallery), Furniture Society (award winners)
- Chippendale Society, James Krenov, John Lloyd
- Sal Maccarone, John Makepeace, George Nakashima
- The Woodworking Channel ( archive)
- Woodworkers' Institute (publishers: with articles, forums)
- British Wood Art, British Woodcarvers Association
- European Woodworking Show (October, Essex: links to craftsmen and toolmakers)
- Inlays (interesting images, not updated since 1999)
- Blogs: Robin Wood, Village Carpenter
- Hand Tools: Antique Tools (images: Jacques Héroux)
- Maison de l'Outil (Troyes: with )
- Musée des Vieux Outils (Lucéram)
- Les Amis de l'Outil (Bièvres)
- Handplane Central (US, with links)
- Roman Tools (a few images: Roger Ulrich)
- Record Hand Planes (the definitive history: David Lynch)
- Virtual Museum (NY: levels, planes, honing guide)
- WK Fine Tools (Albuquerque: follow index on left)
- Lock-picking Guide (20 years
on the WWW: see also Wikipedia)
- Sales: Old Tools (also high-quality modern tools)
- Tony Murland Antique Tools (with links and catalogue)
- Modern: Classic Hand Tools (with links)
- Robert Sorby (with instructions and tips)
- Auriou Toolworks (wood and stone shaping tools, rasps)
- Veritas Tools, Tiranti's, Henry Taylor
- Philly Planes (wooden), Mackays (retailer)
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