Art History Chapters

1. Introduction to Western Art History
2. Art in the Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.
3. Art of the Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135
4. Art of the Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146
5. Art of the Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300
6. Christian Art in the Roman Empire, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453
7. Art in the Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000
8. Art in the High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
9. Art of the Renaissance, 1400 to 1648
10. Art in Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
11. Art during the Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
12. Art in the Age of Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
13. Art during the InterWar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
14. Art during the Cold War, 1945 to 1993
15. Art during the Contemporary Era, 1991 to the Present

Museum Websites

 

The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

The Cloisters, New York City, USA

The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Michigan, USA

The Frick Collection, New York, USA

Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

Isabella Gardner Stewart Museum, Boston, USA

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angles, California, USA

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Louvre, Paris, France

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA

MoMA, New York City, USA

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The National Gallery, London, England

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA

Pinokothek Museums, Munich, Germany

Prado, Madrid, Spain

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

The Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany

Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Vatican Museums, Vatican City

 

See also Online Galleries.