Art Collections

Art History: Ancient Greece

Well maintained site with topis such as: Ancient Art: General Cycladic, Minoan & Mycenaean [Ancient Greece]...

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British Museum: Ancient Greece

The Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities of the British Museum has one of the most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100,000 objects. These mostly range in date from the beginning of the Greek Bronze Age (about 3200BC) to the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD, with some paga...

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The Ambrose Collection

Univ. of Vermont (tons of slides) [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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Ancient Greek and Roman Coins

An Educational Site by Doug Smith on Roman Coins, Greek Coins and other Ancient Coins. [Greece] [Rome] [Images and Art Collections]...

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Art and Archaeology

Tufts Univ. [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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The World of Greek Vases

During those centuries immediately preceding the birth of Christ the Greeks contributed so much to our civilization that it is difficult to properly appraise the contribution. Their development of the arts was undeniably one of the greatest of their gifts to the world. In all aspects of art it was apparent that they not only had an appreciation of ...

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ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY

Bulfinch's Mythology, ORIGIN OF MYTHOLOGY - STATUES OF GODS AND GODDESSES - POETS OF MYTHOLOGY [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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Mythology in Western Art

This collection consists of scanned images from various periods of Western art which depict the deities, and heroes mentioned in Homer. The images are classified according to the names of the various deities and heroes. [Univ. of Haifa] [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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Hellenic Museums

Alphabetical list of museums, descriptions and history. National Archaeological Museum Museum of Byzantine Culture Building for the protection of the royal tombs of Vergina Epigraphical Museum Numismatic Museum Herakleion Archaeological Museum Archaelogical Museum of Thessaloniki and more. Hellenic Ministry of Culture [Greece] [Images ...

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Ancient Greek Art and Architecture

The Greeks developed three architectural systems, called orders, each with their own distinctive proportions and detailing. The Greek orders are: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. [Greece] [Images and Art Collections]...

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