Research Guides: AH 340 Winter 2018: Baroque Art: Early Modern Art and Science (Swan): Museum Resources

Pieter Paul Rubens
Diana and Callisto
oil on canvas
c.1635
202.6 x 325.5cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Museum Resources

Museums can be valuable resources both in terms of their individual collections, and their role in creating specialized exhibitions devoted to an artist, period, or style.

The Art Institute of Chicago
The AIC has an extensive collection of Northern European prints and drawings, along with paintings of the early modern period. Search the Collections tab to explore in greater detail
Codart
CODART is an international network for curators of art from the Low Countries. This website is the best guide to Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide.
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Not an actual museum per se, but a comprehensive guide to Dutch art in museums across the world, organized and searchable by country. If you need to know what a particular museum has in this field, CODART is a great place to start.
The Heilbrun Timeline of Art History
The Heilbrun Timeline of Art History is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York. As its name suggests, it is a chronological examination of art that considers different artistic periods, geographies, and themes to present a contextualized picture of the role art has played throughout history. Essay and image work together in creating a multimedia presentation that utilizes items from the museum's collection.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and photography from its beginnings to the present, gathered internationally.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."
This statement of purpose has guided the Museum for over 140 years, and was amended in 2015 to include the following:
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas."
The National Gallery (London)
The National Gallery houses the national collection of paintings in the Western European tradition from the 13th to the 19th centuries
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The National Gallery, too, has a liberal image acquisition policy. Most of the images can be downloaded without restriction, and there is an academic waiver if they are neded for scholarly purposes
The National Gallery of Art
The mission of the National Gallery of Art is to serve the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and fostering the understanding of works of art at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.
The Rijksmuseum
8,000 artistic and historical objects tell the story of 800 years of Dutch history, from the year 1200 right up to the present
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As the de facto national museum of Dutch art, the Rijksmuseum is THE source for information on virtually every facet of art in the Netherlands. With the Rijksstudio, the museum became one of the first to make its entire collection accessible online, much of it without restriction.