ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Ancient Greek Art

Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece (Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Tufts University) - Art and Archaeology, which access to:

The Greeks (PBS presentation), including some links to Greek Architecture

Greek Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)

The Beazley Archive (University of Oxford), with links to

Greek Art (through ArtLex)

Greek Vases in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)

Greek Vases in Part I, and Part II of the collection of The Etruscan Museum (Museo Gregoriano) at the Vatican: (through Christus Rex), with links to (large) images:

Amphora of Exekias, circa 530 B.C.
Red-figured hydria, circa 490 B.C., painted by the "painter of Berlin"
Black-figured column krater, circa 560 B.C.
Black-figured amphora, circa 530 B.C., attributed to the Painter of the Vatican Mourner (his name piece)
Black-figured kylix, circa 555 B.C., attributed to the Arkesilas Painter
Black-figured olpe, circa 630-615 B.C., attributed to the Painter of Vatican (his name piece)
Red-figured hydria, circa 510 B.C., attributed to Euthymides
Red-figured amphora, circa 450 B.C., attributed to the Achilles Painter (his name piece)
Red-figured kylix, circa 470 B.C., attributed to the Oedipus Painter (his name piece)
Whiteground calyx-krater, circa 440-430 B.C., attributed to the Phiale Painter
Red-figured bell krater, circa 350-325 B.C., attributed to the Aestas

Greek Art & Archaeology

Acropolis of Athens reconstructed (through the Museum of Reconstructions)

Ancient Greece in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

The New Greek Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with links to

Greek Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to

The Theatre at Segesta, Sicily (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)

Greek Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)

Greek Art and Architecture (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)

Geometric and Orientalizing Periods
Archaic Architecture & Architectural Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5
Classical Architecture & Arhcitectural Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Late Classical & Hellenistic Archtiecture & Architectural Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5
Greek Figure Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

The Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)

Greek Sculpture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of Art: Online images from Boston College)

Photographs of Greek Sculpture in the Photo Archives of AERIA (Antikensammlung ERlangen Internet Archive) (Institut für Klassische Archäologie und Antikensammlung, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nünberg)

Doryphoros
Belvedere Torso
Discobolos of Myron
Statues of Aphrodite / Venus
Laocoön
Greek Portraits
Italian-Etruscan Portraits
Greek Architectural Sculpture
- Metopes
  - Heraion, Argos
  - Temple of Athena, Assos
  - Hephaestaion, Athens
  - Parthenon, Athens
  - Treasuries and Tholos, Delphi
  - Temple of Zeus, Olympia
  - Selinus, Sicily
- Friezes
  - Temple of Athena Assos
  - Parthenon, Athens
    - South Frieze, West Half
    - South Frieze, East Half
    - North Frieze, West Half
    - North Frieze, East Half
    - West Frieze
    - East Frize
  - Temple of Athena Nike, Athens
  - Erechtheion, Athens
  - Hephaestaion, Athens
  - Temple of Apollo, Bassai
  - Siphnian Treasury and Theatre, Delphi
  - Heroon, Goelbasi-Trysa
  - Mausoleum, Halikarnassos
  - Altar, Pergamon
    - Telephos Frieze
    - Great Frieze
  - Temple of Dionysos, Teos
  - Xanthos
    - "Harpy Monument"
    - Nereid Monument
- Pedimental Sculpture
- Acroteria
- Caryatids
  - Erechtheion, Athens
  - Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi
- Prinias
Architectural Ornament
Archaic Reliefs
Classical Reliefs
- Grave Stele of Hegeso
- Kerameikos View, with the grave stele of Hegeso, the stele of Koroibos, and the stele with a Loutrophoros

The Ancient Greek World at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Greek World II, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Gandhara (in The George Ortiz Collection)

Greek Artifacts from the David M. Robinson Collection (The University Museums, University of Mississippi)

Greek Art (Mark Harden's Texas.net Museum of Art ARTCHIVE)

The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (through Harvard University Art Museums)

Images of the Trojan War Myth in Ancient Art

Images of Heracles in Ancient Art

The Statue of Hermes in the Vatican Museum (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)

The Ancient City of Athens

Sites and Monuments
- Athens
  - Acropolis, with links to images of
  - Acropolis - South Slope, plus Images
  - Acropolis - North Slope, plus Images
  - Acropolis - East Slope, plus Images
  - The Agora, plus Images
  - Eleusinion in Athens, plus Images
  - Kerameikos, plus Images
  - Library of Hadrian, plus Images
  - The Lysikrates Monument & Street of the Tripods, plus Images
  - The Philopappos Monument, plus Images
  - The Pnyx, plus Images
  - The Roman Agora & the Tower of the Winds, plus Images
- Brauron: The Sanctuary of Artemis, plus Images
Essays & Other Resources

The Parthenon (through Great Buildings Online)

The CSA Propylaea Project (through the Center for the Study of Architecture [CSA] and Bryn Mawr College), with links to

Temple of Athena Nike (through Great Buildings Online)

Stoa of Attalus (through Great Buildings Online)

Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the 5th, 4th, and 3rd Centuries BCE (assembled by Andrew Wiesner)

Temples at Paestum (through Great Buildings Online)

Paestum, Italy (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)

Temple of Hera I (the so-called "Basilica")
Temple of Hera II (once thought to be the Temple of Poseidon)

Computer Reconstruction of the Temple of Hera II (Temple of Poseidon) at Paestum

Didyma (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)

W. R. Lethaby, The Tomb of Mausolus, London: B. T. Batsford, 1908 (through Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius)

The Statue of Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican Museum (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)

Grec (in French), with links to

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