THE ARTS OF AFRICA
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- African Art (through ArtLex)
- Introduction to African Art and Architecture (Professor Henry Drewal)
- African Art: Thematic Essays (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- African Christianity in Ethiopia
- African Christianity in Kongo
- African Influences in Modern Art
- African Lost-Wax Casting
- African Lost-Wax Casting: Bronze, Copper, and Brass
- African Lost-Wax Casting: The Tada Figure
- African Rock Art
- African Rock Art of the Central Zone
- African Rock Art of the Northern Zone
- African Rock Art of the Southern Zone
- African Rock Art: Game Pass
- African Rock Art: Tassili-n-Ajjer (?8000 B.C. –?)
- African Rock Art: The Coldstream Stone
- Afro-Portuguese Ivories
- The Age of Iron in West Africa
- Ana Nzinga: Queen of Ndongo
- Apollo 11 (ca. 25,500–23,500 B.C.) and Wonderwerk (ca. 8000 B.C.) Cave Stones
- Art and the Fulani/Fulbe People
- Art of the Asante Kingdom
- Arts of Power Associations in West Africa
- Arts of the San People in Nomansland
- Asante Royal Funerary Arts
- Asante Textile Arts
- The Bamana Ségou State
- Benin Chronology
- Divination and Senufo Sculpture in West Africa
- Dona Beatriz: Kongo Prophet
- The Empires of the Western Sudan
- The Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana Empire
- The Empires of the Western Sudan: Mali Empire
- The Empires of the Western Sudan: Songhai Empire
- Ethiopia's Enduring Cultural Heritage
- Exchange of Art and Ideas: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms
- Foundations of Aksumite Civilization and Its Christian Legacy (1st–7th century)
- The Fulani/Fulbe People
- Gold in Asante Courtly Arts
- Great Zimbabwe (11th–15th century)
- Harry Burton (1879–1940): The Pharaoh's Photographer
- Idia: The First Queen Mother of Benin
- Ife (from ca. 350 B.C.)
- Ife Pre-Pavement and Pavement Era (800–1000 A.D.)
- Ife Terracottas (1000–1400 A.D.)
- Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th century)
- Inland Niger Delta
- Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800
- Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Funerary Arts
- Kingdoms of Madagascar: Malagasy Textile Arts
- Kingdoms of Madagascar: Maroserana and Merina
- Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Kuba Kingdom
- Kingdoms of the Savanna: The Luba and Lunda Empires
- Kongo Ivories
- Lydenburg Heads (ca. 500)
- The Magic of Signs and Patterns in North African Art
- Mapungubwe (ca. 1050–1270)
- The Monumental Stelae of Aksum (3rd–4th century)
- Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.)
- Origins and Empire: The Benin, Owo, and Ijebu Kingdoms
- Political African Women of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
- Portraits of African Leadership
- Portraits of African Leadership: Living Rulers
- Portraits of African Leadership: Memorials
- Portraits of African Leadership: Royal Ancestors
- The Portuguese in Africa, 1415–1600
- San Ethnography
- Senufo Arts and Poro Initiation in Northern Côte d'Ivoire
- Senufo Sculpture from West Africa: an influential exhibition at The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963
- Trade and the Spread of Islam in Africa
- Trade Relations among European and African Nations
- The Trans-Saharan Gold Trade (7th–14th century)
- The Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Tutankhamun's Funeral
- Tutsi Basketry
- Ways of Recording African History
- Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
- African Art (at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
- African Sculptural Art (African Votive Sculpture), papers by Herbert E. Roese, with links to
- Modern African Art: A Basic Reading List compiled by Janet L. Stanley, National Museum of African Art Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Art and Life in Africa
- Africa-related images, including Ancient Egypt (African Studies, University of Pennsylvania), including
- African Sculpture
- Wooden Mask, Mali
- Standing Female Figure, Burkina Faso
- Wooden Mask, Liberia/Guinea
- Wooden Door, Ivory Coast
- Mask with Iron and Wood, Ivory Coast
- Gold Shield, Ivory Coast
- Wooden Mask, Nigeria
- Ivory Figure, Nigeria
- Wooden Mask with antelope skin, Nigeria
- Wooden Mask, Nigeria
- Standing Male Figure, Nigeria
- Female Bust, Nigeria
- Alligator Head, Nigeria
- Wooden Mask with feathers, Gabon
- Wooden Figure, Gabon
- Standing Male Figure 1, with nails, Zaire
- Standing Male Figure 2, with blades, Zaire
- Wooden Staff, Zaire
- Wooden Mask with raffia, Zaire
- Wooden Mask, Zaire
- Wooden Mask with beads, Zaire
- Wooden Mask, Zaire
- Wooden Stool, Zaire
- Seated Female Figure, Zaire
- Wooden Doll, Botswana
- Ancient Sudan: Nubia (Ibrahim Omer)
- Empires of the Western Sudan (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Explore the Collection of African Art in the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- African Art in the Collection of the Historical Museum of Abomey in the Republic of Benin, with links to
- Bronzes from Ife and Benin (through Galerie Peter Herrmann)
- The Art of Africa, links and images, through Mike Gunther's Timelines of Art History: The World
- Le Masque au Burkina Faso (through Conseil International des Musées)
- African Art (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
- African Art in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
- Africa: The Art of a Continent (Guggenheim Museum, New York), with a link to a A Clickable Map of the Art of the Africa Continent, with further links to:
- Sub-Saharan African Art: Introduction (at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University)
- Africa, Oceania and Native American Art in The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- African Art (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Great Zimbabwe (four photographs)
- Mystery of Great Zimbabwe (Peter Tyson, PBS Nova Online)
- Great Zimbabwe National Park, Zimbabwe (photographs by Tom Loos)
- Riddle of Great Zimbabwe (abstract of article by Roderick J. McIntosh in Archaeology magazine)
- Ashanti Gold Weights (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- African Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
- African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning (Exhibition, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia), with links to:
- African Textiles
- Zulu Beadwork (Stan Schoeman), with links to
- Beaded Slendor: Migration of Beadmaking and Beadwork throughout Africa, with links to essays
- Hamill Gallery of African Art (commercial)
- African Art: Historical Photographs
- Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art (through Pan-African University, Lagos)
- G. I. Jones Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art and Culture, with links to
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Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome
Harvey Miller, 2008
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Copyright in the Renaissance
Brill, 2004
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Art’s History in Europe Part 1
Prehistoric Europe, Egypt, Near East, Aegean, Greece
Apple iTunes, 2014
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The Visual Experience of ART
Apple iTunes, 2012
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Venus of Willendorf
Apple iTunes, 2013
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853 Beautiful Victorian Paintings
Apple iTunes, 2014
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