SCULPTURE RESOURCES
Sculpture Links
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Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam has a stylish and professional site with searchable online collections, including over 500 items of sculpture.
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Leeds City Art Gallery
A range of works from Rodin to Gormley are featured in an online highlights section serving as a taster to the gallery's collections.
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Louvre Paris
The Department of Sculptures includes works from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern period, with insightful commentary on selected works.
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Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Highlights from the Kunstkammer (Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts) of collections of sculpture in wood, stone and ivory.
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British Art Medal Society
An intriguing look at the work of contemporary sculpture artists using a traditional art medal technique to produce innovative works of art.
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Tate Britain
The complex Tate site contains a wealth of information about its sculpture collections, although many descriptions are currently lacking images.
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Sculpture at Goodwood
A well designed and visually appealing site where you can view thousands of images of 21st Century British Sculpture, see a video of the site and even send an e-card.
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The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
A searchable archive of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture, currently still under construction but already offering a wealth of information about sites of interest all over the UK and Ireland.
More on The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park
A stylish and user-friendly sight that gives a guide to collections, exhibitions and events at the park, as well as information on the many educational resources on offer.
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Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
An organisation founded to raise awareness of Britain's monumental past, the site includes information on the SOS (Save our Sculpture) campaign and how to get involved.
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National Recording Project
A database of public sculptures and monuments in the British Isles, at present covering about 70% of the British Isles, with images and information about the artist, history, location and condition of each piece.
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International Sculpture Centre
The site includes a useful directory of sculptors, galleries, parks and organisations, plus a link to Sculpture magazine.
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National Sculpture Society
United States organisation for professional sculptors, the site features critical and historical articles about sculpture and a directory of sculpting resources.
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Henry Moore Foundation
An excellent site for both an introductory and in-depth look at Moore's work, with the 'Schools Blackboard' a resource for teaching.
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Sculptor.org
A vast collection of sculpture related links and resources with sections such as 'Children and Sculpture' and 'Famous Sculptors', and advice on researching sculptures and sculptors.
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Royal British Society of Sculptors
The RBS online gallery contains great images of the eclectic work of hundreds of contemporary sculptors, with more information about each artist and links to their individual websites.
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Getty Museum - Sculpture Collections
Though brief this guide does include video clips from a sculpture expert and an artist, and has some very high quality enlarged details of some of the collections' main pieces.
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Lady Lever Art Gallery
The gallery collections are formed of pieces from the 'New Sculpture' movement and French salon sculpture, examples of which can be viewed online.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Highlights from the American and European sculpture collections can be viewed online, and a zoom function offers a close-up view of tiny details in the images.
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Musee des Augustins
Interesting histories of the Romanesque, Gothic and 16th-19th century sculpture collections of the Toulouse museum, linked to a database of object images.
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Hermitage Museum
A search of the collections yields many highlights from the jewellery collections, including several 3-D images of beautiful pieces from the collection of Catherine the Great.
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Musee Rodin
Museum of the famous sculptor whose works include 'The Kiss' and 'The Thinker', the site has an interesting narrative explaining how some of Rodin's key works came into being.
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Hermitage Museum
The Hermitage collections of Italian, German and French sculpture are showcased on this site with images of key pieces, also links to related works of art.
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International Association for the Conservation and Promotion of Plaster Cast Collections