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African Lost-Wax Casting | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

The basic method of lost-wax casting has been widely practiced on the African continent for centuries. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wax/hd_wax.htm

American Bronze Casting | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

Between 1850 and 1900, the remarkable development of specialized foundries and the proliferation of trained labor and equipment enabled sculptors to work on native shores rather than abroad. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/abrc/hd_abrc.htm

American Neoclassical Sculptors Abroad | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline...

Beginning in the late 1820s, aspiring sculptors migrated to Italy throughout much of the nineteenth century, often for the duration of their careers. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ambl/hd_ambl.htm

American Relief Sculpture | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

Relief sculpture was introduced to the United States by Italian sculptors working on the decoration of federal government buildings during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/amrs/hd_amrs.htm

American Women Sculptors | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

Since the mid-nineteenth century, American women have pursued careers as professional sculptors. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/scul/hd_scul.htm

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Since 1954...

The world's largest and most widely used resource on the history of the visual arts in America, with more than 16 million items and 4,000 oral history interviews....
http://www.aaa.si.edu

Art History Resources on the Web ...

This comprehensive Art History resource organizes links by civilization and then by subheadings, such as Prehistoric Art with Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Art subheadings. It proceeds through Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece...
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Highly Recommended

Art Renewal Center - Glenham, NY...

To create the largest on-line Museum on the internet, with hundreds of thousands of oversized high quality images of all the known works of the greatest painters and sculptors in human history, cross referenced to the largest encyclopedic online art reference library of historical texts, essays, biographies and articles....
http://www.artrenewal.org

Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

Rodin grew up in a working-class district of Paris known as the Mouffetard. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rodn/hd_rodn.htm

Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of...

During the three decades of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' remarkable career, he redirected and invigorated the course of American sculpture. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/astg/hd_astg.htm

Bronze Sculpture in the Renaissance | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow.Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin (as opposed to brass, an alloy of copper and zinc) to which other elements may be added in smaller amounts....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/scbz/hd_scbz.htm

Bronze Statuettes of the American West, 1850–1915 | Thematic Essay | Heilbr...

The resulting bronze statuettes were eagerly collected by an urban-based American public hungry for art and literature mythologizing the West, first as an American Eden and later as vanquished wilderness. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bsaw/hd_bsaw.htm

Carrara Italy - Carrara marble has been used since the time of Ancient Rome...

Carrara is a city and comune in the province of Massa-Carrara (Tuscany, Italy), famous for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some 100 kilometres (62 miles) west-northwest of Florence....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara

Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of History...

Daniel Chester French attained prominence as the leading American monumental sculptor of the early twentieth century. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fren/hd_fren.htm

Direct versus Indirect Casting of Small Bronzes in the Italian Renaissance ...

The great majority of Italian sculptors chose to use the so-called lost-wax technique. All methods of indirect lost-wax casting involve casting a second model in wax. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bron/hd_bron.htm

Divination and Senufo Sculpture in West Africa | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn...

Sculptures and altars used in divination reflect practitioners' efforts to harness natural resources and engage spiritual intermediaries. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/divi/hd_divi.htm

Donatello (ca. 1386–1466) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

The powerful expressivity of his art made him the greatest sculptor of the early Renaissance. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dona/hd_dona.htm

Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Bronze Sculpture | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

Degas' sculpture stands outside the mainstream of nineteenth-century French sculpture. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dgsb/hd_dgsb.htm

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History...

Prehistoric & Ancient Europe, Medieval & Renaissance Europe, Europe as a Supranational Region. These links connect to European primary historical documents that are transcribed, reproduced in facsimile, or translated. They shed light on key historical happenings...
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu

Farber Gravestone Collection...

An unusual resource containing over 13,500 images documenting the sculpture on more than 9,000 gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. ...
http://www.davidrumsey.com/farber

From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865–1915 | Thematic Ess...

The earliest commissions for public monuments in the United States date to the late eighteenth century and were completed by foreign artists. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/modl/hd_modl.htm

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

His sculptural and architectural projects reveal an innovative interpretation of subjects, use of forms, and combination of media. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/bern/hd_bern.htm

Glasgow - City of Sculpture - Home Page...

Glasgow - City of Scuplture offers over 300 biographies of sculptors and architects, with hundreds of photographs, to make this an enjoyable and rewarding site for the casual visitor and an essential and authoritative reference work for the serious researcher. ...
http://www.glasgowsculpture.com

Granite Historical Society was established in 1989...

The purpose of the Society shall be to promote a better appreciation of our American heritage by bringing together those persons interested in the civil, national, and literary history of the Granite region in the State of Maryland....
http://www.granitehistory.org

History of sculpture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia...

The history of the sculpture is varied and is illustrative of how sculpture has changed extensively over the ages. The art of sculpture continues as a vital artform worldwide. From pre-historic and ancient civilizations to the contemporary, from the utilitarian and religious to Modernist abstraction, and conceptual manifestations of both form and content, a continuous stream of creativity...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sculpture

Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

The preeminent sculptor of the French Enlightenment, was primarily known for his portraiture. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jahd/hd_jahd.htm

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History...

Breaking with traditional approaches to historical subjects and portraiture, Carpeaux infused his sculpture with a previously unseen freedom and immediacy. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/carp/hd_carp.htm

JSTOR founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship....

Today, we work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources. In 2009, JSTOR merged with and became a service of ITHAKA...
http://www.jstor.org

Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp...

Take an interactive journey through the art and ideas of Marcel Duchamp. Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), the painter and mixed media artist, was associated with Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, though he avoided any alliances....
http://www.understandingduchamp.com

Michelangelo Buonarroti: CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA...

Italian sculptor, painter, and architect (1475-1564) Michelangelo, one of the greatest artists of all times, came from a noble Florentine family of small means, and in 1488 was apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandajo....
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03059b.htm

Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th century) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn...

In an expansive field on Aksum's northern edge stand the ancient city's most renowned surviving monuments, a group of memorial obelisks, or stelae, erected between the third and fourth centuries A.D. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aksu_2/hd_aksu_2.htm

Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal...

Provides a searchable registry of objects in U.S. museum collections that changed hands in Continental Europe during the Nazi era (1933-1945). The Portal contains information only about objects that: were created before 1946 and acquired after 1932,...
http://www.nepip.org

NetSERF: Art: Sculpture - The Internet Connection for Medieval Resources...

NetSERF's goal is to provide those interested in any aspect of the Middle Ages a single index of all the best medieval resources available on the Internet....
http://www.netserf.org/Art/Sculpture

New York Carver Gothic & Medieval Art, History & Architecture...

This site and original work are a direct connection to my days spent at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC, and at Building Crafts Training College, London, where I learned the ancient craft of stonecarving. Travel the Middle Ages on the Web. The Stone Carver's Tour Joe Chiffriller ...
http://www.newyorkcarver.com

Overnight in Carrara, Italy - Slide Show - NYTimes.com...

The Tuscan town serves as an ideal overnight escape from the throngs that fill Florence. Marble mountains in a great photo and more....
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/09/28/travel/20101003CARRARA.html

Perseus Digital Library...

Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome. Art & Archaeology Artifact Browser sculptures. Germanic cultures, Arabic cultures, the Renaissance and 19th Century American literature....
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu

Pietrasanta Italy: City of Marble...

The area, like most of Tuscany in general, has long enjoyed the patronage of artists. Pietrasanta grew to importance during the 15th century, mainly due to its connection with marble. Michelangelo was the first sculptor to recognize the beauty of the local stone...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietrasanta

Polychromy of Roman Marble Sculpture | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline ...

In antiquity Greek and Roman sculpture was originally richly embellished with colorful painting, gilding, silvering, and inlay. Such polychromy A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/prms/hd_prms.htm

Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Virtual Tour...

Take a virtual tour of Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia. This exhibition was on view at the Gallery June 29 - September 28, 1997. National Gallery of Art...
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/camwel.htm

Sculptures of India - Kamat's Potpourri...

India is truly a treasure house of sculptural art. Spread throughout its length and breadth are memorials for the brave, carved cave temples, stunningly intricate designs and other sculptural artifacts....
http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/art/sculptures.htm

Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: an influential exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963...

Senufo Sculpture from West Africa and the 1960 show at the MPA that preceded it, Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan, focused on art produced within discrete regional traditions. A special topics page from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. View slideshow....
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/smpa/hd_smpa.htm

The Art Story: Modern art movements, artists, ideas and topics...

The Art Story website offers modern art education including movements, artists, and ideas. The artist section provides biographies and commentaries on the work of all the artists who were central to modern art. ...
http://www.theartstory.org

Victorian Britain - Art of Sculpture in Victorian Britain...

The Victorian Web is a project funded in part by the University Scholars Program, National University of Singapore, General, Theme and Subject, Genres, Individual Sculptors born before 1850, Individual Sculptors born after 1850...
http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/sculptureov.html

Washington D.C. Memorials...

Features more than a thousand different pieces of outdoor sculpture. The 'Full Index,' which is accessible from every page, lists each of these sculptures. Most are in Washington D.C. but other cities including Boston, Philadelphia & Montreal are also included....
http://www.dcmemorials.com

Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database...

A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850). Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available....
http://www.wga.hu
Highly Recommended

WorldImages - Sculpture Images Photos...

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.Abstract, Additive, Assemblage & Found Objects, Figurative, Kinetic, Subtractive sculpture, more...
http://worldart.sjsu.edu

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