Art Collections

• Perseus Art Databases (over 30,000 images)
  • Architecture
  • Archaeological Sites
  • Coins
  • Vases
  • Sculpture
• AERIA - Antikensammlung Erlangen Internet Archive
  • Originalsammlung (categories include Steinwerke, Bronzen, Terracotta, Glasgefaesse, Vasen)
  • Photosammlung (categories include Plastik, Bauplastik, Architektur, Reliefs, Topographie, Epigraphik, Museen, Nachleben, and there's a Frames Version)
  • Don't miss:
    • Grabmal der Hegeso
    • Attisches Grabreliefs eines jungen Maedchens
    • Aphroditestatuen
    • Maedchen von Antium
    • Bauplastik, Metopen
    • Bauplastik, Giebelskulptur
    • Bauplastik, Parthenon, Friese
    • Doryphoros
    • Diskobol des Myron
• Art Images for College Teaching "AICT is a free or low-cost image exchange resource for academic institutions and individual scholars. Our purpose is to promote and facilitate the sharing of photographic documentation of art and architectural works in the public domain."
• The Ancient City of Athens
• Ancient Greek Female Costume: Illustrated by One Hundred and Twelve Plates Selected by J. Moyr Smith (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882)
• ArchArt: art and archaeology images (NB sections on Romana pictura and Italia)
• Augustus: Images of Power
• Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University
• The Beazley Archive (A research unit of the University of Oxford's Faculty of Literae Humaniores)
• The Brooklyn Museum of Art, with a collection of Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
• Capitolium.org: The Official Website of the Imperial Forums "Here, in this site, you can find: technical details of the excavations and findings; a historical narration of the Age of the Emperors; reproductions of moments and daily life among the antique Romans; archived and live images. And thanks to virtual reconstruction, you'll also be able to see what once occupied today's excavation area. Moreover, you'll be able to see excavation progress live, thanks to the ultra-modern system of webcameras."
• Carol Gerten's CGFA (a large collection of post-classical paintings)
• A Catalogue of Centaurs on Greek and Related Painted Pottery (John W. Filpus)
• Classical Myth: The Ancient Sources helpfully organizes mythological images and texts from Perseus and several other sources; n.b. the section on the Olympian gods and godesses (Laurel Bowman)
• Greek vases in the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Univ. of Chicago)
• Dr. J'S Illustrated Guide to the Classical World
• The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies (Yale Divinity School)
• The Getty Trust's New Web Site
• Greek Ministry of Culture
  • All Greek Museums
    • The National Museum
      • pottery
      • sculpture
      • bronzes
    • Sculpture from the Akropolis
    • Finds from the Agora
    • Highlights of the Archaeological Museum at Nemea
• The Archaeological Museum at Thessaloniki (part of the Alexander network covering northern Greece, from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
• Grove Dictionary of Art:
  • Ancient Greece
  • Greek Vase Painters
  • Ancient Rome
• John Hauser, Pictures of Pompeii
• LanternSlides of Classical Antiquity (Bryn Mawr)
• Louvre
• Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome (Leo Curran)
• Metis: QTVR Interface For Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Greek and Roman
  • Egyptian
  • Ancient Near Eastern
• Les Néréides dans les mosaïques romaines
• National Gallery of Art. Choose "mythology" from the list of "popular subjects" for art inspired by the ancient world.
• North Carolina Museum of Art: Classical Collections (includes some Shockwave and Quicktime VR presentations, e.g. of the Aphrodite of Cyrene)
• Oriental Institute Museum (highlights of the collection)
  • Women
  • Men
  • Virtual Museum
  • Photographic Archives
  • Death in Ancient Egypt: A project and publication of The Research Archives of the Oriental Institute, Chicago (Alexandra A. O'Brien)
• Ostia: Harbor of Rome
• Parthenon (images, links, discussion of features: David Silverman)
• The Peplos Kore (read about her in Perseus)
• Plan de Rome
• The Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculptures
• Roman Empresses on Coins
• Roman portraits from Egypt put on line by World Art Treasures -- for recent discussion, see
  • Euphrosyne Doxiadis, The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt (New York: Abrams, 1995)
  • Lorelei H. Corcoran, Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt (Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1995)
  • Barbara Borg, Mumienporträts (Mainz: Rutzen, 1995)
  • Summary by Robert Steven Bianchi, "The Mummy as Medium," in the November/December 1995 Archaeology magazine
• Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage
• Stemmata of Roman imperial families and dynasties (John Vanderspoel)
• Janice Siegel's Survey of Audio-Visual Resources for Classics (a comprehensive list of all non-textbook resources for the study of the ancient worlds of Greece and Rome)
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: the Ancient Greek World
• Vedute di Roma
• Vergil's Dido: A Multimedia Path (Mark Morford et al.)
• The VRoma Project Image Archive
• Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity (Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum)
• The Zoom Project is a collaboration between the Fine Arts Museums and the Computer Science Division of the University of California at Berkeley. The goal is to provide high resolution images with multiple levels of zoom in the Imagebase.
• The Temple of Zeus at Olympia (reconstruction drawings with discussion of features)
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Internet Resources
  • Egyptian Art
  • Greek Art
  • Near Eastern Art
  • Roman Art

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