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"Religious Art and Architecture of India"
A course by Daniel White at UNC Charlotte.
http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jdwhite/rels3163.htm/rels3163.htm
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African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning
This is an electronic art exhibit from the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia, curated by Benjamin Ray. The excellent images are accompanied by extensive descriptions explaining their cultural and religious significance.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/African.html
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Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries
"In much of North America and Europe, the younger generations have little knowledge of the central figure in the formation of Western culture. They know little of the way Jesus, his person and teaching, and the way he has been understood, has shaped and reshaped so many key developments in art, science, politics, ideas, society, and culture. Anno Domini: Jesus Through the Centuries offers a modest opportunity to glimpse and consider this tap-root of culture and civilization." This site is an online exhibit of images of Jesus, related to Jaroslav Pelikan's works on changing historical perceptions of Christ. Maintained by the Provincial Museum of Alberta.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Annodomini/
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Art Concordance
This site provides many links to art works on the Internet that deal with religious themes. An excellent resource.
http://www.textweek.com/art/art.htm
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Biblical Art on the WWW
This site provides links to Bible-related art on the Internet, organized under these headings: Biblical Subject; Biblical Text; Artist; Word. Maintained by Rolf Staerk.
http://www.biblical-art.com/index.htm
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Bodleian Library
A collection of illuminated manuscript pages from the Middle Ages.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/browse.htm
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Durer's Apocalypse
Albrecht Durer's (1471-1528) illustrations of The Apocalypse of St. John, maintained at Connecticut College.
http://www.conncoll.edu/visual/Durer-prints/index.html
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Electronic Images
A set of links which enable the user to access images from the major world religions. Maintained by Saundra Lipton at the University of Calgary.
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/images.html
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Gropper Windows: Genesis in Glass
"In 1967, artist William Gropper completed a series of five windows in the Gottlieb Community Hall at West Suburban Temple Har Zion in River Forest, Illinois. We are proud to present a celebration of these vibrant windows which represent some of the most familiar stories of Genesis."
http://www.lgrossman.com/gropper.htm
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Images of Women in Ancient Art
A major collection of annotated images from the ancient world. Maintained by Chris Witcombe at Sweet Briar College.
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/f3-women.html
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Russian Painting
A broad overview of the history of Russian painting, including icons. Maintained at Rollins College.
http://www.rollins.edu/Foreign_Lang/Russian/ruspaint.html
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Taoism and the Arts of China
Over 25 works of Chinese art "from the Warring States period to the Qing dynasty [that] demonstrate the development of Taoism and Taoist art." Accompanying text explores themes of tradition (Laozi, cosmology), church (priests, rituals), and renaissance (goddesses, Zhenwu, Inner Alchemy, landscape). Includes diagrams of the Chinese zodiac, Taji, and Trigrams; a map of China; a timeline; classroom lesson plans; a glossary; a list of related books; and links. From the Art Institute of Chicago.
http://www.artic.edu/taoism/
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William Blake Archive
"A free site on the World Wide Web since 1996, the Blake Archive was conceived as an international public resource that would provide unified access to major works of visual and literary art that are highly disparate, widely dispersed, and more and more often severely restricted as a result of their value, rarity, and extreme fragility. A growing number of contributors, currently eight American and British institutions and a major private collector, have given the Archive permission to include thousands of Blake's images and texts without fees. At this writing the Archive contains fully searchable and scalable electronic editions of 27 copies of 16 of Blake's 19 illuminated works in the context of full, up-to-date bibliographic information about each image, scrupulous "diplomatic" transcriptions of all texts, detailed descriptions of all images, and extensive bibliographies."
http://www.blakearchive.org/
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Asian Arts
"The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia."
http://www.asianart.com/
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Art and Images (Religious Resources.org)
A collection of links.
http://www.religiousresources.org/directory/cat.php?cat_id=2
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Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum Quality Art on the Internet
"Our mission is to become the definitive and most effective guide to museum-quality fine art on the Internet." This superb site offers many different avenues of browsing and searching for images.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
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ArtsReformation.com
"The Purpose of Reformation of the Arts and Music (RAM) is to publish materials that promote a general understanding of Art's meaning and methods, so that both artists and art enthusiasts may develop appreciation and discernment in all areas of the Arts, including music, literature, poetry, performance, architecture, sculpture, craftworks, and the graphic arts." Maintained by Matt Bynum.
http://www.artsreformation.com
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Asian Christian Art Association
"In 1978 the Asian Christian Art Association was founded to encourage the visual arts in Asian churches. At that first consultation of artists in Bali, the aims of the Association were clearly stated, as follows: 1. To encourage artists to express Christian concern through their art in an Asian context. 2. To coordinate the activities of individuals and groups in Asian region who are working on indigenous art forms. 3. To provide a means of communication and information. 4. To work with churches, with the Christian Conferences of Asia and with other bodies seeking to witness to Christian faith in Asia."
http://www.asianchristianart.org/
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Christians in the Visual Arts
"It is our purpose to encourage Christians in the visual arts to develop their particular callings to the highest professional level possible; to learn how to deal with specific problems in the field without compromising our faith and our standard of artistic endeavor; to provide opportunities for sharing work and ideas; to foster intelligent understanding, a spirit of trust, and a cooperative relationship between those in the arts, the church, and society; and ultimately, to establish a Christian presence within the secular art world."
http://www.civa.org/
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HeQiArts.com
This site provides information about the Chinese Christian artist He Qi.
http://www.heqigallery.com/
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Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
"The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), China, and Japan. The Archive documents the art and architecture of these countries in situ, as well as works of art found in most major Asian, European, and American museums."
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/
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Image: Art, Faith, Mystery
This web site promotes a print publication that explores the relationship between Judeo-Christian faith and art.
http://www.imagejournal.org/
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Symbols in Christian Art and Architecture
This site provides information about a large number of Christian symbols. Maintained by Walter Gast.
http://home.att.net/~wegast/symbols/symbols.htm
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Vatican Museums
"The Vatican Museums are one of the most famous and renowned cultural institutions of the Holy See. They are known everywhere because of the masterpieces which the Roman Pontiffs have commissioned, collected and preserved during the ages. Together with the immense heritage of movable works of art, sculptures and paintings, which are displayed in the galleries, the itineraries of the Vatican Museums include the most important and artistically significant rooms of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, such as the 'Cappella Niccolina' with paintings by Beato Angelico, the 'Appartamento Borgia' with decorations by Pinturicchio, the 'Stanze' painted by Raphael and, of course, the Sistine Chapel with frescoes by Michelangelo as well as the most important 15th century masters from Umbria and Tuscany."
http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html
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Images of Medieval Art and Architecture
Photographs of cathedrals, castles, etc. from England and France. Maintained by Alison Stones.
http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/medart/index.html
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China the Beautiful: Chinese Art and Literature
"Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy." A very impressive resource.
http://www.chinapage.com/china.html
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Cooperative Digital Resources Initiative
"The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books, and various forms of Christian art, architecture, and iconography." Many different seminaries contributed items to this joint project, which is organized under: Architecture, Art, Iconography; Ancient Near East; Manuscripts, Texts, Sermons; Missions, World Religion.
http://www.atla.com/digitalresources/
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Learning About the Holocaust Through Art
"The primary goal of this project is to create a significant, high-quality resource about the art of the Holocaust for researchers, educators, students and the wider public. Beit Lohamei Haghetaot is responsible for most of the content of this website. The Museum has selected, photographed, researched and documented the art works and provided the accompanying biographies, articles and educational materials. Beit Lohamei Haghetaot has one of the foremost collections of art relating to the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, including 3000 drawings, paintings and sculptures."
http://art.holocaust-education.net/
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Islamic Arts and Architecture
"This site explains in detail the historical and cultural significance of hundreds of Islamic and Arabic artifacts. The site is illustrated with photographs of dozens of works of art, from massive Islamic shrines and buildings to tiny silver coins."
http://www.islamicart.com/
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Ad Hoc Image and Text Database
"Ad Hoc is a faculty-library initiative to support and coordinate resources relating to the history of Christianity at Yale University. While some of the elements of this site are only locally accessible, most are available through the Internet and are intended to serve a larger audience. The purposes and expected uses of materials accessed through this site are educational and scholarly."
http://research.yale.edu:8084/divdl/adhoc/index.jsp
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Art History Resources on the Web
A large collection of links to Internet resources, maintained by Christopher Whitcombe.
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
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Art Images for College Teaching
"Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is a personal, non-profit project of its author, art historian and visual resources curator Allan T. Kohl . AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access,
free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature."
http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html/
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Jewish Museum
This museum, located in New York City, offers many materials related to Jewish culture in the United States and around the world.
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
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Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture
"The Society's purpose and program are based on the belief that the roles of the arts and religion are decisive. They reflect the struggle to conserve and to recover depth and wholeness, to reaffirm personal responsibility in the face of dehumanization, to define the ground for human freedom and creativity in a culture which tends increasingly to impose impersonal tyrannies over mind and spirit. The Society meets three times each year, normally in New York City, on the first Saturday of November, February and May."
http://www.sarcc.org/
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Peregrinations
"Peregrinations is published periodically by the International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art. Topics of research include: art and architectural history, medieval history and religion."
http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/
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