LibGuides: Art History: ARH210

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South Asian art

Indian Miniature Painting

Jaina Sculpture

Buddhist sculpture

Chinese landscape painting

Chinese Jewelry

Korean pottery

Japanese painting

Japanese Wood-Block Prints

Islamic manuscripts

Medieval Islamic art

Islamic decorative arts

Ancient American Art

Pre-Columbian jewelry

Mesoamerican art objects

Viceregal Latin American painting

Colonial Latin American decorative art

Native American textiles

Indigenous Peoples art

Sub-Saharan sculpture

North African manuscripts

African masks

African ritual objects

Oceanic decorative arts

Pacific art objects

Melanesian costume

eBooks in the Library

A&A ePortal

Art & Architecture ePortal
Art & Architecture ePortal is an eBook collection of key scholarly works in the fields of art and architectural history published by The Art Institute of Chicago, The MIT Press, Yale University Press, Harvard Art Museums, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Web Resources for Non-Western Art

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco's mission is to inspire new ways of thinking by connecting diverse communities to historical and contemporary Asian art and culture through its collection, exhibitions and programs.
The Barnes Foundation
The mission of the Barnes is to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture. On display are some of the world’s most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings alongside African masks, native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork.
The British Museum
The British Museum, the first national public museum of the world, brings together eight million objects to explore the extraordinary diversity of human cultures, from small communities to vast empires, spanning all continents and oceans.
Discover Islamic Art: Museum with No Frontiers
MWNF is a collaborative program involving public and private partners from all over the world. A goal of its Virtual Museum is to promote awareness of the Arab world’s history and cultural legacy
The Hispanic Museum & Library
Based in New York City, the Hispanic Society of America was founded in 1904 with the intent of establishing a free, public museum and reference library for the study of the art and culture of Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and the Philippines.
The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art contains nearly 300,000 original slides and photographic documentation of art and architecture throughout Asia, including Hindu, Jain, and Islamic works.
National Museum of African Art
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art initially focused on traditional arts of sub-Saharan Africa, but has since broadened its collecting scope and programs to include both modern and contemporary artworks.
The National Museum of the American Indian
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian is one of the world’s most expansive collections of Native objects, photographs, and media, covering the entire Western Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.
Penn Museum Online Collections
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is home to Africa, Asia, the Americas, and the Mediterranean, from the very first cities of the Middle East to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt; from early Mexico to the lives of Native American communities today.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
As the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery preserve, exhibit, and interpret Asian art in ways that deepen our understanding of Asia, America, and the world.
The Yale University Art Gallery
The Gallery’s permanent collection was founded in 1832 when the patriot-artist John Trumbull gave more than one hundred of his paintings to Yale College. Since that time, the collection has grown to number more than 250,000 objects representing Eastern and Western cultures and ranging in date from ancient times to the present day