Research Guides: ARTHIST 289 Introduction to East Asian Art : Websites

Images, Maps, Websites

Art of Asia
The site focuses on MIA’s extensive collections of Asian art, focusing on Chinese and Japanese art.

ARTstor
Curated collections of digital images and associated data for non-commercial, scholarly, non-profit, and educational use. Over 1 million images.

The Art Institute’s Asian collection
Distinguished collections include Hindu and Buddhist sculpture; Chinese jades, bronzes, ceramics, and paintings; Japanese screens and woodblock prints— one of the finest assemblages in the world; Korean celado.
Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum is one of the foremost institutions of Asian art in the Western world, hosting department of Chinese, Japanese, South Asian, Himalayan, Southeast Asian, and Korean art as well as for preservation and photography
Chinese and Japanese scroll paintings
U of Chicago, Chinese and Japanese scroll paintings
Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums include the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (the same Arther M. Sackler that the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery is named for). Use this interface to search Harvard's excellent image database for their three art museum collections.
MIT Visualizing Cultures
MIT Visualizing Cultures (on modern and contemporary Japanese and Chinese visual cultures
National Institutes for Cultural Heritage (Japan)
National Museum of Korea
National Palace Museum, Taipei
The Palace Museum, Beijing:
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art
Two Buildings, One Museum - The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery