The Canny Link Directory

Alternative Careers for Art Historians - guide to career tracks for individuals who have majored in or are contemplating a major in art history.

American Visions - companion site to the PBS special on the history of American art as told by Time Magazine's art critic, Robert Hughes.

Anistoriton - magazine of history, archaeology & art history.

Art History Network - art history, archaeology and fine art resources on the web.

Art Images for College Teaching - AICT is a royalty-free image exchange resource for the educational community.

ArtHistoryTV.com - an internet-only TV channel.

Artstar.com - carrying an array of art books, posters, and gifts, and offering a directory of artists, events, and museums, as well as consultation and auction services, online exhibitions, and Artstar magazine.

Carol Gerten's Fine Art - archive of artists and their works, sorted alphabetically, by period, and by location.

Getty Provenance Index - provides access to multiple databases on the history of the ownership of works of art, gathered from sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files.

Mark Harden's Artchive - virtual art museum with galleries of Masters' works, theory and criticism, art cd-rom reviews and art links.

Smart-Ass Guide to Art

The 5 ? Art History Quiz

Timelines - images and links to non-Western art before 1900.

Visions of Art - discussion on the meaning and definition of art, using writings by famous artists.

WebMuseum [England - Sunsite]

WebMuseum [England]

WebMuseum [Hungary]

WebMuseum [Mexico]

WebMuseum [Poland]

WebMuseum [Russia]

Beckett, Sister Wendy

Dr. Maude Wahlman - African and Ethnic Arts.

Giorgio Vasari: Lives of the Artists - an archive of works referred to by Vasari in the Lives, with text references and images.

Homer, William Innes - professor with interests in both European and American painting from 1865 to 1925 and in American art after World War II.

Huiskamp, Marloes - art historian studying iconography and Dutch and Flemish painting in the 16th-17th century.

Schapiro, Meyer

Weisberg, Dr. Gabriel P. - focuses on themes affecting French art from the middle of the nineteenth century until WWI including Japonisme, Naturalism, Realism, Art Nouveau, and the Academie Julian.

Arts & Crafts Movement Review - annotated bibliography of books and articles dealing with the Arts & Crafts Movement. Covers contemporary publications and period pieces.

Edward Gorey Bibliography

Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan - updated bibliography with informative descriptions of numerous publications on Japanese art; by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto.

Art & Physics: Parallel Visions of Space, Time, & Light - by Leonard Shlain.

Old Florida Pottery - by Dr. Alfred Frankel. A book about the history of pottery making in Florida.

Palissy Ware - book about renaissance potter, Bernard Palissy, and the style of ceramic art which he helped creat.

Art Serve - pay per view virtual gallery supported by the Australian National University.

Bureau of Reclamation Fine Art Collection

Comic Art Gallery - extensive private collection of comic art originals.

Crispian Riley-Smith - collection of Old Masters drawings.

Digital Imaging Project - images of European and North American sculpture and architecture from classical Greek to Post-Modern.

Francis Frith Collection - contains over 300,000 photographs of 7,000 towns and villages of Britain taken between 1860 and 1970.

Hitachi Viewseum - museum artwork, photographs, cultural and historical exhibition, with music and MPEG camera stills and videos of a cross-country travel adventure.

House of Illusions - anaglyph and cross-view three-dimensional images of famous works of art.

Jurii Maniichuk Collection - realism and socialist realism in Ukrainian art of the Soviet era.

Kibo Foundation - The Khalili Collection of Japanese Art - collection of Meiji decorative art including metalwork, enamels, lacquerwork, and ceramics.

Magoon Collection - collection that was assembled in the 1850's by Rev. Elias Magoon of Albany, whose interests at the time centred on British architecture and antiquarianism.

Museum Suite - a virtual museum with more than 100 important paintings and articles about the artists.

Nour Foundation: The Khalili Collection of Islamic Art - more than 20,000 objects documenting Islamic art. Site offers information on the collection, exhibits and the foundation.

OCAIW: Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web - catalogue of images from the masters of painting, sculpture, architecture and photography.

OCAIW: The Nude in the Art History - gallery of images following the presence of the nude figure in art history.

Robert J. Shiffler Collection and Archive - private, cutting-edge collection of contemporary art and culture.

Wolfgang Kuhle Collection - paintings by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Roger Fry.

World Art Treasures

Artists on Art - excerpts from writings and interviews of great artists past and present on the concept and process of art, as well as artist chronologies of the periods in which they worked.

Part - magazine of art and theory produced by CUNY graduate students.

Pre-Raphaelite Criticism

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection - research institute devoted Byzantine and Pre-Columbian studies, and the history of landscape architecture.

Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) - focuses on Western and particularly Dutch visual art from the Late Middle Ages to the present day.

Swiss Institute for Art Research - documentation centre for art history and art technology that specializes in Swiss art and artistic events in Switzerland.

Association for Art History - professional organization dedicated to the study of art history. Open to academic art historians, museum professionals, and independent scholars and critics.

Christus Rex - private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and monasteries all over the world

College Art Association - promotes excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art.

International Center of Medieval Art - promoting the study of the visual arts of the Middle Ages in Europe.

International Post-Dogmatist Group - official avant garde artist group and arts movement of the late 20th century and early- to mid-21st century.

Massurrealist Society International

Art Movements and Periods

Black Arts Movement - comprehensive look at the people, works and organizations behind this 1960s cultural movement.

Period and Style for Designers

Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s - two-part exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery that examines the revolutions in painting and poetry that took place on the East and West Coasts following World War II.

From Cyprus to Munich - Turkish looters stripped icons and several dozen major frescoes and mosaics from Northern Cyprus.

Geneva Seizure - Swiss police seized a large number of artifacts allegedly smuggled from Italy.

Holy Door of the Monastery of St. Athanasios - originally built in the 11th century A.D., and stolen during a Turkish military invasion to Cyprus in 1974. It has been found in the permanent exhibition of the Kanazawa College of Arts in Japan.

Looting Question Bibliography, The - web and literary resources on the archaeological politics of private collecting, commercial treasure hunting, looting, and "professional" archaeology.

Museum Provenance List - resources and links to museums that have listed works of art in their collections which contain gaps in their provenance between 1933 - 1945.

Phiale of Achyris - photographs and detailed description of the $1.2-million gold offering bowl from Sicily that is now at the centre of a court case in Manhattan.

Stolen Property or Finders Keepers - by Dede Tisone-Bartels. Includes groups of links to famous art thefts, including the Benin Bronzes and Elgin Marbles.

Stolen Stones - concerning the modern sack of Nineveh.

Age of Enlightenment - in French paintings.

Card Art - playing cards and 20th century artists. Brief illustrated overview of modern artists' contribution to playing cards' design.

Don Quixote Exhibit - illustrations and translations for Cervantes' Don Quijote de la Mancha.

Shakespeare Illustrated [Emory University] - paintings inspired by Shakespeare's plays.