Dr. Amanda Luyster

Links/Resources:

These links can be used for extra credit (write one page about an interesting website or article written on the page) or for general research.  Please be warned: for your papers, or for any serious academic research, the web is not necessarily a reliable source of information.  However, there are many interesting and stimulating sites.  I hope you enjoy this opportunity to follow your own interests.

Internet Detective (shows you how to determine whether a site is reliable)

Area Museums

Worcester Art Museum

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University (Asian, Islamic, and Ancient art)

General:

(**NOTE: even if you are looking for something specialized, e.g. Islamic Art, you should still check these general sites, because they can lead you to more specialized sites)

Holy Cross Online art history resources through the library: important resources include ARTStor, an incredible collection of images, and Grove Art Online and BHA, indispensable for research papers

Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web (contains links to websites for many different periods and locations; the best all-around directory of art history websites)

The Art Newspaper

The Art Daily

The British Library's Online Exhibition "Turning the Pages" with virtual reconstructions of Asian, medieval, Renaissance, and other manuscripts

The British Museum's Online Collection at COMPASS

The Getty's online Conservation Videos (paper, decorative arts, etc.)

World Ceramics at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

World Myths and Legends in Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Ancient Art (Ancient Middle East, Egypt, Greece, Rome)

Egypt's Golden Empire from PBS

Minoan Crete

Greeks: Crucible of Civilization from PBS

Perseus Greek and Roman resources from Tufts (images, texts)

The Parthenon Marbles: Both Sides of the Dispute

Virtual Reality Reconstructions by Learning Sites

Roman Resources (from reconstructions to combat reenactment)

The Roman Way (website, streaming audio, quizzes and recipes!) from BBC Radio

Asian Art

Arts of Asia at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (contains video clips, slides, etc.)

Asian Historical Architecture with over 7600 photos

East Asia Sourcebook (online history and culture) at Fordham

India Sourcebook (online history and culture) at Fordham

South Asian Art Resources on the Web from Columbia

African Art

Africa Focus online collection of images, movies, and sound clips from University of Wisconsin

Africa South of the Sahara, collection of links from Stanford

African History Sourcebook from Fordham

African Studies links for Art and Archaeology from Columbia

Art and Life in Africa from U Iowa

Islamic Art

Islamic History Sourcebook from Fordham

ARCHNET Islamic Architecture Image Database and online community (great), includes a dictionary of Islamic architectural terms and a search engine

Commentary by NPR journalist Anisa Mehdi

Islam: Empire of Faith from PBS

Islamic Art at the Worcester Art Museum

Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Art & Culture from Islam Online (online Muslim community, includes popular culture)

Recommended Arabic Fiction (in English)

Medieval Islamic Culture from Nick Bartel

Princeton Shahnama project

Arab World project from NITLE, general history and information on religion and culture

Taj Mahal virtual tour

Medieval Art

Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture terms from Pittsburgh

The Dark Origins of Britain (website and streaming audio) from BBC Radio 4

Virtual Reconstructions of English Medieval Architecture

Mapping Margery Kempe: Late Medieval Material and Spiritual Life

Medieval Movies at Fordham

Medieval Sourcebook at Fordham (history and culture)

Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts from the British Library

The Norman Way website and streaming audio from BBC Radio 4

Romanesque Churches in France (interactive plus some video) from Columbia

Mesoamerican Art

Tikal virtual reality tour (Maya)

FAMSI site - Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, includes recent research, image collections including rollout photographs of Mayan vases, monuments, etc.

Mesoamerican sites online

Conquistadors - online site for Michael Wood's PBS documentary

Precolumbian art at the Worcester Art Museum

Native American Art

Surrounded by Beauty at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian)

Native American Baskets from the Weavers' Point of View

Kiva virtual reconstruction by John Kantner