Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online is a free and open-access online platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture.
The Chester Beatty is the pre-eminent Irish museum promoting the appreciation and understanding of world cultures with holdings of manuscripts, rare books, and other treasures from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection supports research and learning internationally in Byzantine, Garden & Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies.
The project aims to make the discovery of and access to The Muslim World Manuscript Project at the Columbia University Libraries easier, by allowing for a number of access points, including a unified online collection portal on the University of Pennsylvania’s OPenn site, the Columbia Library Catalog CLIO, WorldCat, the Internet Archive and, eventually the Columbia Libraries Digital Collections’ portal.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art includes more than 2 million works of art, spanning 5,000 years of world culture. This selection (more than 400,000 images) encompasses the museum's holdings from ancient works through to the twentieth century, across media and the globe.The museum first opened in 1872 in a townhouse located on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The collection was founded with 174 European paintings. Today the comprehensive collections are shared by 17 diverse curatorial departments, and the main building, incorporating successive expansions, occupies more than 2 million square feet.
The British Museum was the first public national museum in the world, and the museum's permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest in existence.
The Musée du Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, is now allowing the public to browse its 480,000-piece collection from the comfort of their homes. The French museum has created an online platform featuring all of the museum’s artworks, the Louvre announced on March 26. Works are presented in the collections database regardless of whether they are on display in the Musée du Louvre or Musée Delacroix, visible in the gardens, on long-term loan in France or abroad, or in storage. Information about their location is included in each entry.
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art provides online access to Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum's Eastern Art department collections.
The Internet Archive provides free access to collections of digitized materials including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual and print materials. A valuable resource that is currently under attack
Ancient Greek names are an important resource for the historian of the ancient Mediterranean world. The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) traces every bearer of every name, drawing on a huge variety of evidence, from personal tombstones, dedications, works of art, to civic decrees, treaties, citizen-lists, artefacts, graffiti etc.: in other words, from all Greek literary sources, documentary sources (inscriptions and papyri), coins, and artefacts.
Smarthistory is a collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to unlocking the expertise of hundreds of leading scholars, and making the history of art accessible to more people.
The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ('Corpus of Ancient Vases') is the oldest research project of the UAI. It consists of a series of high-quality catalogues of mostly ancient Greek painted pottery in collections around the world. The first fascicule appeared in 1922 and since then more than 400 have appeared, illustrating more than 100,000 vases in 24 countries.