Use Google Streetview to wander through the Machu Piccu Museum in Cusco, Peru, Home to the largest collection of Machu Picchu artifacts in the world...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has some terrific online exhibitions. Here is one of my favorites. Under each item you will also find a video interview with the artist...
Always have found Chinese Porcelain Art fascinating with its intricately detailed pictures of people, creatures and landscapes. Elim Museum of Chinese Ancient Porcelain Art is a non-profit organization. From a private collector’s prospective, we focus on collecting, preserving, and classifying those “stylish and characteristic” ancient Chinese porcelains from the collectors around the world. By means of on-line display, a portion of our collection that we believed to cherish relatively a higher aesthetic and academic value, will be periodically unveiled to the public in purpose of promoting further research and discussion, as well the general appreciation. We hope our collections (it is currently limited to Song,Yuan, Ming and Qing four dynasties) will be a more broader representation of ancient Chinese porcelain art to demonstrate objectively its historical progression and achievements.
They also have an excellent 3D display exhibition that allows you to rotate items to see all sides...
Those garish Greeks and Romans! When the great Renaissance sculptors looked at austere Greek and Roman sculpture with awe and admiration, little did they realize that most of those statues were painted in what we would now consider a rather garish manner. Here is a famous statue of Augustus Caesar and behind it what current research suggests it looked like back in Roman times...
Sheila Hoffman looks at colour in ancient Greek sculpture...
Also check out the excellent University of Kent blog page devoted to the true colors of ancient statues..
The Smithsonian has an excellent page about the archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann who has done extensive and painstaking research into the painting of Greek Statues...
