Images

Nota Bene: There are many collections of open source images being released regularly. We will try to post them as they are made available. If you have suggestions of exhibits or collections to add, please email switzke@wesleyan.edu

For museums, collections, and exhibitions relevant to the study and interpretation of the Ancient Near East, please see the Abzu Museum Index. For Byzantine and Medieval images, see Byzantium on the Web.

Museums/Exhibits

• Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University
• The Brooklyn Museum of Art, with a collection of  Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
• Greek vases in the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (Univ. of Chicago)
• Europeana (a portal to several European museums) 
• The Getty
• Louvre
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• National Gallery of Art (choose “mythology” from the list of “popular subjects” for art inspired by the ancient world)
• North Carolina Museum of Art: Classical Collections 
• Oriental Institute Museum (list of collections)
• The Riley Collection of Roman Portrait Sculptures
• Penn Museum Galleries (including Greek, Roman, and Etruscan materials)
• Kelsey Museum Permanent Collection (including painted reproductions of the Villa of the Mysteries murals)

Dictionaries/Databases

• Perseus Art Databases (over 30,000 images)
• AERIA – Antikensammlung Erlangen Internet Archive
• Art Images for College Teaching “AICT is a free or low-cost image exchange resource for academic institutions and individual scholars. Our purpose is to promote and facilitate the sharing of photographic documentation of art and architectural works in the public domain.” 
• The Beazley Archive (A research unit of the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Literae Humaniores) 
• Carol Gerten’s CGFA (a large collection of post-classical paintings)
• The EIKON Image Database for Biblical Studies (Yale Divinity School)
• Grove Dictionary of Art (behind an Oxford paywall)

Locations

• Capitolium.org: The Official Website of the Imperial Forums
• Greek Ministry of Culture (links to all Greek museums)
• The Archaeological Museum at Thessaloniki
• Parthenon (images, links, discussion of features: David Silverman)
• Plan de Rome
• The Temple of Zeus at Olympia (reconstruction drawings with discussion of features)

Themed Image Collections

• Ancient Greek Female Costume: Illustrated by One Hundred and Twelve Plates Selected by J. Moyr Smith (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882) 
• Dr. J’S Illustrated Guide to the Classical World
• John Hauser, Pictures of Pompeii, Rome, Ostia
• LanternSlides of Classical Antiquity (Bryn Mawr)
• Les Néréides dans les mosaïques romaines
• The Peplos Kore
• Roman Women on Coins
• Roman portraits from Egypt 
• Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage
• Stemmata of Roman imperial families and dynasties (John Vanderspoel)
• Theoi.com (a collection of images and translations for Greek mythology)
• Aeneid in Arts (not updated)
• The VRoma Project Image Archive