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Art Historical Resources on the 'Net

Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago
1997

One of the great advantages of the World Wide Web is the rapidly expanding database of images available to anyone with a fast network connection. Scholars, alone and in consortia, have begun scanning and making available their research; museums have begun creating cybernetic incarnations of themselves, so that a viewer in Chicago or Fargo can wander the Uffizi in Florence or the Louvre in Paris. Below are a few of the sites that are of particular interest to students of the history of architecture and the visual arts. If you have any suggestions for other locations you've found, email us and we'll add them.

Museums

The Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, one of the great Renaissance repositories.

The Louvre, Paris.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Visual Arts Imagebases
- The WebMuseum, Paris.
- Columbia University's Webseek, A wide-ranging content-based search engine for visual images, including architecture, and paintings.
Architecture and Urban Design
- Auckland University's Architecture Database: Includes reconstructions of various important architectural sites, and rewarding explanations of the ways architects actually work.
- The University of Illinois, Chicago Imagebase Project, providing access to a wide variety of materials concerning the Chicago area built environment.
to send comments or suggestions, contact the Imagebase Project, pbhales@uic.edu

Art Historical Resources on the 'Net

Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago1997

Museums

Visual Arts Imagebases

Architecture and Urban Design

Art History Department, University of Illinois, Chicago
1997