Research Guides: HIS 338/ART 378: Ancient Greek Art: Find Primary Sources

Michael Schwartz Library

Online Primary Sources

ARTstor
Searchable database of digital images and associated information. Covers the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is committed to making a broad range of digital images of artworks in the public domain widely and freely available for scholarly and academic publication.
The Art of Classical Greece
Essay from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Greek Art in the Archaic Period
Essay from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Ancient Greece: Greek Art
Collection and context by Prof Thomas Sakoulas at SUNY Oneonta
Art Institute of Chicago: Greece
Ancient and Byzantine Art
Classical Art Research Center
University of Oxford
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Louvre Museum
Home to a collection of artworks representing the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations
Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii
Includes images of wall sculptures in Pompeii
CLAROS: CLassical Art Research Online Research Services
Enables simultaneous searching of major collections in university research institutes and museums, including: Arachne (Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture-Cologne); the Beazley Research Archive; the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologicae Classicae; the German Archaeological Institute (DAI); and the LGPN (Lexicon of Greek Personal Names).
Greek and Roman Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Spanning a period of roughly 3,800 years, the collections of Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art are held in very high esteem nationally and internationally. Although the collections are modest in overall numbers, they are typified by singular works of rare quality.

Architecture in Ancient Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art & Architecture Artifact Browser
Through Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library
Archaeological Areas of Pompei, Herculaneum and Torre Annunziata
UNESCO World Heritage Organization
Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
UNESCO World Heritage Organization

Perseus Digital Library
"Digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Covers the Archaic and Classical Greek world, with Latin text, Renaissance materials, and Papyri." --Librarian's Index to the Internet
Ancient History Sourcebook
Fordham University
Eurodocs: Prehistoric and Ancient
Brigham Young University
Women's Life in Greece & Rome
Collection of primary sources
World Digital Library
Large, well-organized collection of print and visual primary sources from ancient to current times.

MIT Visualizing Cultures
World History Matters
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use
World Digital Library
Large, well-organized collection of print and visual primary sources from ancient to current times.
Contentdm Collection of Collections
Try a keyword search for "United States Civil War." Collections that contain materials from this time period will come up as results.