Visual Resources

The following links provide interactive databases and visual resources for world art history and regional history and culture
General Art Historical Sources:

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
2. Art History Resources on the Web
3. Web Gallery of Art - database of European arts searchable by artist
4. Bridgeman Art Library - database of art images
5. Artcylopedia

Art of the Americas

1. Art History Resources on the Web:  Art of the Americas

Asian Arts

1. Art History Resources on the Web:  Asian Art - General
2. Asia Society:  Museum and host of numerous exhibitions and lecture series in New York
3. East Asia Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp
4. Classical Japanese texts http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/sites.html

African Arts

1. Africaresource.com is an excellent resource on African arts and culture, both contemporary and historical.  
2. Arts Council of the African Studies Association.  The leading scholarly association for North American scholars of African arts. 
3. Art History Resources on the Web:  African Art.  The index page link is found here. 

Islamic Arts and South Asian Arts:  

1. Archnet Digital Library (Excellent visual and publications consortium and archive for Islamic art and architecture)  
2. Discover Islamic Art at the Museum with No Frontiers 
3. 3D Panorama of the Qutb Minar complex
4. Museum of Islamic Art, Doha Qatar
5. The Islamic Art Network A Photo Archive consisting of a searchable database of contemporary photographs of Islamic buildings. A project of the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation   
6. Map of Indianization or Spread of Indic culture into Southeast Asia 
7. University of Chicago South Asia Portal to Historical Atlas of India 
8. Interactive Map to Cultural and Political Sites in India 
9. Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the ArabWorld, Iran, and Turkey

Map of Africa circa 1300 (Map 10.2 in Tignor et al. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart)