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Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Festa del Redentore, detail, c.1899
Watercolor and pencil on paper
Gift of Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 91.18.5
Williams College Museum of Art

Web Resources

Links to online collections as well as art information organized by topic:

Additional Image Sources

Art Images for College Teaching
Flickr
Google Advanced Image Search
Google Art Project
NGA Images (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web (K. Bouchard, Brown University)
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons
WorldImages

General
Inter-American Institute for Advanced Studies in Cultural History
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
New York Public Library Digital Gallery 
Smarthistory

Links to Museums, World-wide
The Mother of all Art History Sites

Specialized Sites Organized Alphabetically by Topic

African Art and Architecture
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590-1920

American Culture
Library of Congress American Memory Collections
LIFE Photo Archive Hosted by Google

Ancient Art and Architecture
Ara Pacis Augustae
Perseus Digital Library

Architecture
Archinform International Architecture Database
Dwell

Emporis
Great Buildings Online
Sahara (Society of Architectural Historians Architectural Resources Archive)
Southeastern Architectural Archive of Tulane (Kelly Rylance)

Art News
Art Daily
The Art Newspaper
College Art Association News
CultureGrrl Blog
List of top 20 art blogs (Joy Garnett, Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Mutual Art (World’s largest art information service)

Asian Art and Architecture
Archaeological Survey of India
Asian Historical Architecture
Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting (James Cahill)

Contemporary Art
Rhizome (Contemporary Art Information)
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service from the Royal College of Art Special Collections)

Copyright Reference
Artists’ Rights Society
Digital Images Rights Computator (Visual Resources Association)

Individual Artists
Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece: Infrared reflectograms and X-radiographs
Elliot Hundley at Andrea Rosen Gallery (G:\PUBLIC.WWW\Elliot Hundley)
Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
The Essential Vermeer Blog

Islamic Art and Architecture
Aga Khan Visual Archive (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ArchNet

Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Virtual Tour of the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba
Walters Art Museum Manuscripts

Maps
Google Earth (Maps as well as access to art and architecture sites)
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Medieval Art & Architecture
Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
Index of Christian Art (through Sawyer Library E-Resources, Art)
Mapping Gothic France (Columbia University & Vassar College)
Peregrinations

Photography
George Eastman House ( International Museum of Photography and Film)
Getty Images

Photography in/of the Middle East
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Research Databases: Archives and iDAI.images)
Gertrude Bell Archives (University of New Castle)
Foundation of the Arab Image
Sultan Abdul Hamid II's Photographic Albums (Library of Congress)
Orientalist Photography Archives (Getty Research Institute)
Antoine Sevruguin Photographs (Freer-Sackler Gallery)

Technical Sites
Getty Research Institute (Resources for scholars includes standards and vocabularies)
Photosynth (tools for panoramas and 3D images)
TASI: Technical Advisory Services for Images (Joint Information Systems Committee)