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° Uffizi ° Vatican Museums ° Sistine Chapel ° Santa Maria del Fiore ° Museo di Capodimonte ° Museo Bagatti Valsecchi United States ° National Gallery of Art ° Guggenheim ° Museum of Modern Art ° Metropolitan Museum of Art ° J. Paul Getty Museum °Fine Arts Museum of S Francisco °National Museum of American Art ° Cleveland Museum of Art ° Butler Institute of American Art ° Whitney Museum of American Art ° Detroit Institute of Arts ° Berkeley ° Philadelphia Museum of Art ° Montclair Art Museum |
° Louvre ° Centre National d'Art et de Culture George Pompidou ° Musée d'Orsay England ° The National Gallery ° Victoria and Albert Museum ° Serpentine Gallery Spain ° Museo del Prado Russia °The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts ° Ermitage Netherlands ° Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art ° Rijksmuseun ° Van Gogh Museum Canada ° The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
° Media Center of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal Austria ° Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien Australia ° The Art Gallery of NSW Switzerland ° Museo Nazionale Svizzero Uruguay ° Virtual Museum of Arts El Pais |
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Uffizi
Florence |
| One of the
most famous museums in the world and one of the most interesting on the
web.
Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide). |
The galleries The Birth of Venus Virtual Uffizi |
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Vatican
Museums
Rome |
| A
huge collection of works of art. Among the pictorial works visible are:
Renaissance Paintings Gallery, Giotto, Beato Angelico, Caravaggio, William Congdon, Duccio di Boninsegna, Eugène Burnand (Pietro e Giovanni), Simone Martini, Masaccio, Masolino, Michelangelo, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt |
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Sistine Chapel
Rome |
| The Sistine Chapel
was built between 1475 and 1483.
The wall paintings were executed by Pietro Perugino, Sandro Botticelli, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, Luca Signorelli and their respective workshops, which included Pinturicchio, Piero di Cosimo and Bartolomeo della Gatta. Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling; the work was completed between 1508 and 1512. He painted the Last Judgement over the altar, between 1535 and 1541, it having been commissioned by Pope Paul III Farnese. |
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Santa Maria del Fiore
Florence |
| The pictorical
cycle of the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence is the well known
mural cycle of holy subjects.
It covers a surface of 3.600 square meters realized with much difficulty, due to its height. The visit presented on this site is divided into five paths that follow an ideal itinerary from Inferno to Paradise, dealing with some fondamental aspects of picture's iconography |
| Museo di Capodimonte
Naples http://capodimonte.selfin.net
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site with 5 museums of the Soprintendenza di Napoli: Museo Capodimonte
(this only completed and visible), Museo di S. Martino, Museo Pignatelli,
la Certosa di Capri, Museo Duca di Martina.
There are 5 collections, of which only 2 are actually visible: the Farnese Collection and Contemporary Art. A great number of works can be seen. Some artists present: Tiziano, Michelangelo, Bruegel Pieter, Botticelli, Raffaello, El Greco, Mantegna Andrea. |
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| Museo Bagatti Valsecchi
Milano |
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| National Gallery of Art | National Gallery of
Art
Washington |
| The National Gallery of Art houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, and graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present. |
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Guggenheim
New York, Venice, Berlin, Bilbao |
| Five museums in
four cities.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Guggenheim Museum So-Ho in New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, located in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni on the Grand Canal (it features a rich collection of objects ranging in style from Cubism and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism, and its garden is home to a world-class collection of modern sculpture), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. In the museums extraordinary exhibitions are periodically realized, dedicated to a particular theme or artist. It is also possible to see these on-line. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has the biggest collection of Kandiskys, besides artworks by Pissarro, Renoir, Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Toulous-Lautrec, Degas, Rousseau, Delauney, Braque, Picasso, Leger, Chagall, Marc, Mondrian, Kokoschka, Feininger, Modigliani, Klee, Rauschenberg, Pollock, Dubuffet, Warhol. |
* Kandinsky (Quadro chiaro n. 188)
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| . | Museum of
Modern Art
New York |
| The world's largest
and most inclusive collection of modern painting and sculpture comprises
some 3,200 works dating from the late nineteenth century to the present.
It provides a comprehensive overview of the major artists and movements
since the 1890s, from the works of Paul Cézanne to masterworks of
today.
It includes more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 14,000 films and four million film stills, as well as 140,000 books, art books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's library. Among the pictorial artworks in the museum are: "Les demoiselles d’Aignon" by Picasso, "Bagnante" by Cézanne, "Notte stellata" by Van Gogh, "Lo studio in rosso" by Matisse and mumerous other paintings by Degas, Gauguin, Modigliani, Monet, Klimt, Balla, Boccioni, Kandinsky, Klee, Mirò, and Magritte. |
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Metropolitan
Museum of Art
New York |
| The Metropolitan
Museum of Art is one of the largest and finest art museums in the world
with works on exhibit covering 5,000 years of human history.
Areas on exhibit: Egyptian Art, Greek and Roman Art, Islamic Art, Medieval Art and The Cloisters, Arms and Armor, Pavilion Lehman, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Europeans Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Photographs, Musical Instruments, Costume Institute, the American Wing, American Painting and Sculpture, American Decorative Arts, Twentieth Century Art, The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Asian Art. Included are artworks by Masters of Classical Painting (Raffaello, Tiziano, Giotto, Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Vermeer, De la Tour, Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Brueghel il Vecchio, Rubens, L. Cranach il Vecchio, Dürer, El Greco, David, Ingres, Goya, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Degas, etc.) as well as Modern Painting (Pollock, Ingres, Rouault, Chagall, Kandisky). |
* Raffaello * Rembrandt * Vermeer |
| J. Paul
Getty Museum
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| The site provides glimpses into pemanent collections as well as current exhibits. You will see the 'Adoration of the Magi" as well as the Mexican collection of fine art. |
| Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco |
| Features a massive database of images. The museum has artworks from VI C. BC to XX C. "High resolution images with multiple levels of zoom." |
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| National
Museum of American Art
Washington |
| A numerous collection of images organized according to the following Categories: Photography, Sculpture, Folk Art, Drawings, Landscapes, Portraits, Miniatures, Abstracts, Urban Scenes, The American West, Native American Life and Culture, Literary Themes, Religious Themes, Architecture, Children, Sports, Animals. |
| Cleveland
Museum of Art
Cleveland |
| Tens of thousands of works from ancient times to the present. Great online features. |
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| Butler Institute
of American Art
Youngstown, Ohio |
| An extensive collection of american artists. |
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| Whitney
Museum of American Art
New York |
| The permanent
collection has more than 12,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings,
and photographs, representing nearly 2,000 individual artists and providing
the most complete overview of twentieth-century American art of any museum
in the world.
Exhibition: The American Century:Art & Culture 1900-2000 - Part I, 1900-1950, of The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000 is on view until August 22, 1999. On view are such icons of American art as Thomas Eakins' "The Thinker: Portrait of Louis N. Kenton", Alfred Stieglitz's "The Steerage", Edward Hopper's "Chop Suey", Grant Wood's "American Gothic", Georgia O'Keeffe's "Summer Days", Jacob Lawrence's "War Series: Victory", and Jackson Pollock's "Number 27". - Part II of The American Century will be presented from Sunday, September 26, 1999, to Sunday, February 13, 2000. |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts |
| Fifth-largest art museum in the U.S |
| Berkeley
Berkeley |
| The museum and an exhibit dedicated to children's portraits. |
| Philadelphia
Museum of Art
Philadelphia |
| "The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest and most important art museums in the United States. The collection of Asian art, with objects dating from the third millenium B.C. to the present, includes ceramics, sculpture, paintings, and decorative objects as well as a Japanese ceremonial teahouse, a Chinese palace hall, and a celebrated collection of Oriental carpets. The European collections include medieval sculpture, stained glass, and a 13th-century French cloister; masterpieces of Renaissance painting; a suite of 18th-century French interiors; and superb Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. The American collections include extensive holdings of Pennsylvania German art; refined furniture and silver by early Philadelphia craftsmen; and the most important collection in the world of works by Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins. The art of the 20th century can be traced from the early innovations of Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Duchamp to great works of abstract expressionism, pop art, color field painting, and contemporary work in many media." |
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| The Montclair
Art Museum
NewJersey |
| "Built on a generous initial gift of 54 paintings from Museum co-founder William T. Evans, the painting collection spans the history of American painting from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. With particularly strong holdings in the Hudson River School, the collection also has fine examples of portraiture, American Impressionism, the American Scene, Modernism, Abstract Expressionism and 20th century works by African-American artists. The Montclair Art Museum has one of the finest and most comprehensive public collections of works by Montclair's greatest artist, George Inness. Artists represented in the painting collection include Asher B. Durand, Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase, John Singer Sargent, Morgan Russell, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell and Andy Warhol." |
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Louvre
Paris |
| Widely regarded
as the most famous art museum in the world and that with the most famous
paintings in the world.
Virtual visit The Louvre museum, founded in 1793, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous museums of Europe. It houses more than 6 000 European paintings dating from the end of the XIIIth century to the mid XIXth century, in a wide variety of genres and formats, from miniatures to monumental canvases, and offering an encyclopedic diversity. |
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Centre
National d'Art et de Culture George Pompidou
Paris |
| The Centre national
d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou is one of the most popular cultural
sites in the world.
The Centre is composed of two major departments (in addition to two associated bodies, and various cultural and administrative units): the Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle (National Museum of Modern Art-Center for Industrial Design, Mnam-Cci) and the Département du développement culturel. The first covers modern and contemporary painting and sculpture, drawing, photography, design and visual communication, architecture, experimental film, and video and new technologies. It is responsible for the State's art collections from 1905 to the present day, as well as new design and architecture collections. |
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Musée
d'Orsay
Paris |
| Collections include artworks by Cezanne, Renoir, Daumier, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Monet, Coubet, Manet, Degas, Millet, Rodin, etc. |
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The National
Gallery
London |
| One of the most
beautiful and prestigious museums in the world.
"The Collection spans the period from about 1260 to 1900 and is made up of Western European paintings. The national collection of 20th-century art is exhibited instead at the Tate Gallery, as is the national collection of British Art. In 1997 the Tate and National galleries established the cut-off point between their collections at 1900 and exchanged those works which they held from the other's time span. Lesser-known paintings from each of the four wings are displayed in Lower Floor Gallery A." |
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and Albert Museum
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Gallery
London |
| Modern art |
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Prado
Madrid |
| On this site it
is possible to see the works on exhibit,and read the history of the
museum as well as other interesting information.
Possiede importanti collezioni di scuola pittorica alemana (tedesca), inglese, spagnola, flamenca, francese, olandese e italiana. Propone itinerari di visita in cui è possibile vedere bellissime immagini delle opere più significative e importanti, ciascuna spiegata in maniera dettagliata.. |
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The Pushkin
Museum of Fine Arts
Moscow |
| The
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is one of the major art collections in Russia,
exhibiting foreign works of arts ranging from ancient times to the present.
Presented here are: Byzantine icons and carved ivory, Limoges enamels and the Renaissance-period Italian, German and Dutch painting, the major national schools of the 17th c. European painting - Flemish, Dutch and Spanish, the Italian artists and sculptors of the 17 - 18th c.c. (Tiepolo, Canaletto, ecc.), the late 19th - early 20th French art (Matisse, Picasso, Renoir, ecc.). |
| Hermitage
St. Petersburg |
| Excellent site.
The collection of Western European art (from the Middle Ages to the present day) is regarded as one of the finest in the world. The collection includes numerous works by outstanding masters from Italy, Spain, Holland, Flanders, France, England, Germany and other Western European countries. |
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| Stedelijk
Museum of Modern Art
Amsterdam |
| Leading modern contemporary art museum in the country. artworks, images, Java, VRML, Shockwave. |
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Amsterdam |
| Avery beautiful musem not yet on-line. |
| Van
Gogh Museum
Amsterdam |
| More than 200
paintings and almost 500 drawings.
Included in the collection are The Potato Eaters, Self-portrait with Felt Hat, Still-life with Sunflowers and Wheatfield with Crows. The collection of contemporaries, largely on permanent exhibition, comprises paintings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Fantin-Latour, Monet, Sisley, Isaac Israëls. |
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| Museum of Fine Arts | The Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal |
| Musée d'art
contemporain.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has assembled one of North America's finest encyclopedic collections, totalling over 25,000 objects. The Museum has a rich collection of Canadian Art and of paintings by European masters, as well as sculptures and objects from the Middle Ages to the present day. (Hogarth, Gainsborough, Mantegna, El Greco, Poussin, Rembrandt, de Witte, Pieter Bruegel the Younger, Canaletto, Tiepolo, Corot, Daubigny, Daumier, Tissot, Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro, Monet, Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse, Feininger, Rouault, Dalì, Dix, Hofmann, Francis, Rauschenberg, Calder, Nevelson, Golub, Richter, Immendorff, Rebecca, Horn, Flanagan, Balkenhol). Most of the important European schools from the Renaissance onwards are represented in the Galleries of Prints and Drawings (Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Hendrick Goltzius, Ferdinand Hodler, Turner, Daumier, Manet, Gauguin, Matisse, Sisley, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dalí, Mark Tansey, David Rabinovitch). |
| Ottawa | National
Gallery of Canada
Ottawa |
| The National Gallery
of Canada is home to the world's finest and most comprehensive collection
of canadian and european art.
An outstanding program of special exhibitions, performing arts and unique educational activities is offered throughout the year. Collections: Art in Quebec (140-1860), Art in the Maritimes and Ontario (1800-1860), Canadian Art (1930-1980), Inuit Art, Contemporary Art (1960 to present), European Art (Gothic and Renaissance Art, Baroque Art, 18th, 19th, 20th Century, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism), Abstact Expressionism (American). |
| Montreal | Media Center
of the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal
Montreal |
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| Museum
Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Vienna |
| International
20th century modern art.
"The Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MMKSLW) is the largest museum of modern art in Central Europe. Its unique collection is housed in two exhibition buildings, Palais Liechtenstein and the "20er Haus", both of which also regularly show special exhibitions of contemporary art." |
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The Art
Gallery of NSW
Sydney |
| Collections include Australian, Aboriginal, Asian, western and contemporary art, photography. |
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| Museum nazionale svizzero | Museo Nazionale
Svizzero
Zurigo |
| Una delle principali collezioni dei beni artistici e culturali elvetici. |
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| Virtual
Museum of Arts El Pais
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| Current uruguayan art in a original virtual museum. |
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| Sono esposte opere
di artisti nazionali e internazionali, tra i quali:
Jean Arp, Francis Bacon, Fernando Botero, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Larry Rivers, Auguste Rodin, Antoni Tápies, Victor Vasarely |
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| National
Museum of Modern Art
Tokyo |
| In English and Japanese. Includes exhibitions of the museum collection and temporary theme-specific exhibitions, in which Japanese and foreign works are displayed. |
| National
Museum of Western Art
Tokyo |
| Special exhibition |
| Tokugawa
Art Museum
Tokyo |
| Includes exhibition rooms |