Art History Websites

What follows are a series of links to various websites related to major historical sites and/or civilizations. Students using these links must always keep in the mind that there is no guarantee the information on these websites is accurate. The information you gain from these websites should be seen as a supplement to what you learn in class and from texts, not a replacement for those sources.

General Art History Topics

• Art History Resources on the Web

• The Art History Archive

• Artcyclopedia

• Smarthistory: A Multi-Media Web-Book about Art and Art History

• Art History Timeline

• Google Art Project
  

• The Museum of Altamira

• Official Site of Lascaux

• Official Site of Chauvet

• The Pech Merle Prehistory Center

• Çatal Höyük, Turkey

• Stonehenge

• Great Buildings: Images and 3-D animated reconstructions

• Archaeoastronomy of Stonehenge

• Stone Pages: A link to numerous European megalithic sites

• The Megalithic Portal: Maps, browse by country, numerous links

• Avebury Official Site: largest henge in England

• British Museum & Mesopotomia: Examines the geography, history, and archaeology of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria

• Ziggurats of Uruk, Ur, and Babylon: Multiple photographs of 3 major Mesopotamian ziggurats

• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative: Multi-university program of cuneiform studies with its own Wiki library of information, and a link to blogs about the impact of the Iraq War on Mesopotamian archaeology

• Dur Sharrukin: Oriental Institute of Chicago review of their excavations at Sargon II's palace

• Lamassu: Metropolitan article on lamassi

• Assyrian Art: Highlights from the Oriental Institute of Chicago's collection

• The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies: Home site contains links to articles and new items relating to all periods of ancient Iran, along with a vast collection of images from the Achaemenid, Parthian, and and Sasanian periods

• Sistine Chapel

• Asian Art in SoCal

• Art History Unstuffed

• PBS - Art:21

• Chinati Foundation

• NOWNESS

• Guerrilla Girls

• College Art Association

• Art Historians of Southern California