Online Art History Resources

• The Art History Motherlode
• Art History at UCLA
• Opening Minds to Art: Support the Courtauld!
• Art & Critique
• Caravaggio.com
• Art for Kids: Elements, Principles, and Other Concepts (a great resource for anyone looking for arts education materials for kids!)
• Through Eternity Tours (I can’t vouch for the tours, but this Tumblr site has an impressive  collection of essays about art & history written by various art historians!)
• Resource Guide to Art History on FYIFly (This page has overviews of different art historical periods as well as links to various universities’ discussions about job opportunities with art history.)
• The Borghese Gallery
• The Uffizi
• The Getty Institute
• The Louvre
• The Prado
• ArtSTOR (access from an educational institution may be required)
• JSTOR (access from an educational institution may be required)
• Every Painter Paints Himself (managed by independent art historian Simon Abrahams)
  
• Dominus Venustas (a yearlong journey of one girl exploring art and art history, with wonderful insights)
• Alberti’s Window (an art history blog that covers a wide range of movements)
• Smarthistory
• WTF Art History (for those moments when you see a painting and think, “What on earth?”, this blog is an honest, hilarious, insightful retreat for art historians and students!)

Amy’s Favorite Art History Books

… Introductions to Art History

• Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 12th Edition. By Fred S. Kleiner et al. 2004. ISBN: 0155050907.
• Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods. By Michael Hatt & Charlotte Klonk. 2006. ISBN: 0719069599.
• The Story of Art, 16th Edition. By E.H. Gombrich. 1995.  ISBN: 9780714833552.
• Stories of Art. By James Elkins. 2008. ISBN: 0415939437.
• Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols. By James Hall. 2007. ISBN: 0813343933.
• The Lives of the Artists. By Giorgio Vasari. First published in 1550. Translated edition linked here is from 1998. ISBN: 019283410X.
• Art Theory: An Historical Introduction. By Robert Williams. 2009. ISBN: 1405175532.

… Specialized Studies

• Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki. By John Onians. 2008. ISBN: 0300126778.
• Neuropsychology of Art: Neurological, Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspectives. By Dahlia Zaidel. 2005. ISBN: 1841693634.
• Caravaggio: A Life. By Helen Langdon. 1999. ISBN: 0374118949.
• M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio. By Peter Robb. 2001. ISBN: 9780312274740. (This book is controversial among some art historians.)
• Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane. By Andrew Graham-Dixon. 2010.
• Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. By Diana L. Eck. 1998. ISBN: 0231112653.
• Italian Baroque Art (Blackwell Anthologies in Art History). Ed. Susan M. Dixon. 2008.
• Caravaggio Studies. By Walter Friedlander. 1955. ISBN: 0691003084.
• Bernini: The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque. By Rudolph Wittkower. 1997 edition (first published 1955). ISBN: 0714837156.

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