Library Guides: Art History and Archaeology: Archaeology and Antiquities

Archaeology and Antiquities

Archaeological Institute of America
Official web site of the largest American organization devoted to the world of archaeology, with links to lectures, conferences and official documents of the institute itself.
BeWeb: Catalogue of Artworks of Italian Dioceses
The BeWeb portal is an online catalogue of artworks held by churches in Italian dioceses. It is published by the Vatican in consultation with a number of state agencies, including the Ministry of Culture.

N.B.: The database is primarily in Italian, though certain search features are identified in English.
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The database, currently containing records on over 3.5 million objects, is a work in progress. At present certain large cities, including Florence and Milan, have no objects represented within it. After completion, the database will be continually updated with more data on each object. The cataloged items include objects ranging from painting and sculpture to crucifixes and reliquaries. Along with low-resolution images of the items themselves, descriptive data for each object include measurements, dating, material type, and an assigned subject and typology.
The Churches of Rome
From LacusCurtius: a major site on Roman antiquity, including a photosampler of Roman and Etruscan cities and monuments (with a very large site on the city of Rome of course).
Electronic Resources for Classicists: The Second Generation
The metasite, maintained by the University of California at Irvine, offers links to a vast array of online resources for classical studies, ranging from gateways to bibliographies, to images, and to on-line texts.
Metis: A QTVR Interface for Ancient Greek
The web site offers QuickTime “walk-throughs” of the most important Greek archaeological sites. There are also links to articles about each site.
Perseus Digital Library
A digital library containing heterogeneous collection of materials, textual and visual, on the Archaic and Classical Greek world.
The New Mithraeum: Per Aspera ad Astra
A database of more than 400 Mithraic monuments and 150 temples.