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museum & art gallery sites

Museums & Art Galleries

• Art History Resources on the Web — This site, maintained by an art history professor, has links to art websites categorized by date and geographic location.
  • Art History Resources on the Web: Middle Ages
  • Art History Resources on the Web: 15th Century
  • Art History Resources on the Web: 16th Century
• Art Resource — Fine art stock photo archive.
• Artcyclopedia— Art can be searched by medium, location (i.e. museum), title, subject, and of course artist.
• Bildindex zur Kunst und Architektur — In German, but has thousands of images of paintings, sculpture, etc.
  • Bildindex Tutorial — A tutorial on how to search the Bildindex, by Marion McNealy. Especially helpful if you don't speak German (like me!).
• Blaffer Collection — A collection of Rensaissance and Barocque art, located in Texas.
• Bodleian Library: Western manuscripts to c. 1500 — Fabulous resource with images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts.
• CGFA — Fine art images by artist.
• Centre National du Costume — In French, images of theater costumes, listed by time period. Includes bios of the costumers. Tres cool!
• Danish Royal Library: Medieval Manuscripts — Manuscripts from the 9th thru 15th century.
• De Young Museum — American, Pacific Island and African art.
• Emily P. Reynolds Historic Costume Collection — Located at North Dakota State University.
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University — Digital collection of 80 early (9th thru 16th century) manuscripts.
• FIDM Museum & Gallery — Fashion & theater/film costume related exhibitions.
• Gallica - Bibliotheque nationale de France — In French. The French national library, has lots of medieval manuscripts.
• Legion of Honor — European paintings and decorative arts, ancient art, etc.
• Museum of the City of New York — Images of New York and a Costume & Textile collection.
• Museum of Costume at Bath — If I ever get to England, this and the V&A are my two "must sees." Not a lot of images on the website, but definitely worth checking out.
• National Maritime Museum, Greenwich — Online collection of maritime related paintings.
• New York Public Library: Digital Gallery — Lots of costume related images.
• New York Public Libaray, Mid-Manhattan Library: Picture Collection Online — Seems to be a separate database from the one listed above. Has sections on gloves, hairdressing, clothing, shoes, textiles, etc.
• Northampton Museum Boot and Shoe Collection
• Platt Hall Gallery of Costume — In Manchester, UK. Search doesn't work too well, and collections are broken into odd categories. But with a little effort you can find some good stuff.
• Women Working: 1800-1930 — From Harvard University Library, a digital collection of manuscripts, trade magazines, catalogues, etc, portraying working women.

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