World Art Museums






 
Musei Vaticani, Rome

This is one part of the really huge collection "Christus Rex" with works of art from churches all over the world and many more art-historic exhibitions. It presents very few background information, but a really great number of images from the Vatican Museums, including sculptures, wall and ceiling paintings, tapestries, and paintings.

   
Singapore Art Museum

This site is one part of "Singapores Museums online", including the History- and Civilisations- Museums as well. The Art Museum currently presents "Modernity and Beyond", a two component exhibition made up of "Themes in Southeast Asian Art" and "A Century of Art in Singapore." Several sections (e.g. Attitudes towards Modern Art, Mythology and Religion, Traditions of Reralism) offer texts and images.

 
   
 
Museum of Modern Art, Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

This Museums in Vienna presents general visitor information, an overview of paast and current museum exhibits (with press-releases), and on online-gallery as well. Many works by famous painters and sculptors are to be seen: Magritte, Kokoschka, Miro, Picasso, Pistoletto and many more. In this gallery there are no texts, but the presentation of special exhibitions is more informative.

   
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Take a virtual tour of the world-famous Uffici in Florence. You can read many texts on artists and art-historical eras, but with regard to pictures a visit of the Museum in Italy will be much more satisfying. Most images are only in black & white and small-sized thumbnails. You can search alphabetically (Works, Artists) or look at the Index of rooms, including such famous ones as the Botticelli-, Michelangelo-, Durer-, Leonardo- or Titian-Room.

 
   
 
Museo del Prado, Madrid

The Museo Nacional del Prado is one of the world's most important art galleries. The collection was made up through the years from Spanish Kings private collections. The museum now houses well over 4,000 pieces of art. You can find here much more than just visitor information or order posters in the Museum Shop. The Prado offers several interpretations of world-famous paintings, an overview on the collection, and last but not least a virtual tour of the museum, which will allow you to view the 50 most famous pieces, among them works by El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo, Ribera and Goya.

   
Palazzo Grassi, Venice

The Venetian Museum here presents information on the historic building and on its current and past art exhibitions as well. Currently there is special exhibition on German expressionism with several texts and some images. Furthermore you'll find short articles on former exhibitions (Duchamp, Warhol, Modiglani, Leonardo, Tinguely..).

 
   
 
Museum of Contemporary Art

Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art offers many current and former special exhibits. Visitors not sufficiently satisfied by the Keith Haring Homepage can admire more works here by the famous graffiti artist. Worth a visit too: Jeff Koon's "Puppy", "Photography is dead - long live photography!", "Phantasmagory" (film, video, computer installations), "Burning the interface" (experimental and interactive art on CD-ROM).

   
Louvre, Paris

Of course the real Louvre in Paris can be visited in the WWW too, with a great number of famous paintings e.g. Leonardo's Mona Lisa and works of Rembrandt, Rubens or Titian), sculptures (e.g. Venus of Milo) and many other art objects. Worth a visit too: the Egyptian, Etruscan and Asiatic departments. These pages however up to now are available only in French, but an English language site is planned. Some touristic information on the Louvre can be found here as well.

 
   
 
Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam


The Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art's plans for the future are ambitious: It wants to bring ALL ist art works online. At present users can visit highlights from the collection "Classics of the modern age" (Monet, Manet, Cezanne, van Gogh, Picasso), some contemporary art works (by Appel, Jorn, Baselitz, Kiefer...) as well as some images from the photograph collection with detailed background information.

   


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