Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web

Interactive cartographic history of the water systems of Rome.

Online exhibition from the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Detailed information compiled by David Savage.

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance is an interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity, a focus of Renaissance studies. Registered are the antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents.

Fortunato Depero's 1927 work of graphic design and bookmaking.

"FIAC's main purpose is to promote the knowledge and the appreciation of the Italian cultural and artistic traditions from the classical period to modern times in the United States."

Biographical information about Italian poster artists with thumbnails of works.

Blog posts from the Getty Museum.

Overview of the collection.

"Dedicated to the study of Italian art and architecture from prehistory to the present."

"Italian cultural and political posters mostly dating from the 1970s-1980s, including many created by the Partito comunista italiano." Duke University Libraries site.

"Museum and research center dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States."

"Founded by Edward Goldberg and Hester Diamond in the early 1990s to foster the study of the Mediceo del Principato, the epistolary collection of the Medici Grand Dukes, dating from 1537 to 1743." Registration is required to search the databases.

Virtual fly through of the 16 etchings in Piranesi's "Carceri," series, created by Gregoire Dupond.

Fifteenth-century Italian paintings in the National Gallery of Art that were altered for sale by dealers.

Immerse yourself in the chapel.

"A collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in the mid-1570's." From the University of Chicago Library.

Audio and video recordings of distinguished scholars speaking about their research at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Created by and for Professor Evelyn Lincoln and her students, this site contains images from printed books and other material published in the 16th through the 18th centuries about the city of Rome.