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Getty Provenance Index
The Getty Provenance Index accumulates and disseminates information
related to the history of collecting, and to the provenance of individual
works of art. Sales catalogues, archival records, and museum files
reveal the history of ownership of works of art, and provide information
about the history of taste and collecting.
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Smithsonian Institution Online
Collections
The Smithsonian, the largest museum complex in the world, is providing
digital access to the collections, which consists of art and artifacts.
It is possible to search Smithsonian Institution Online Collections
for particular works of art by identifying artist, date, museum department,
and by keyword from the text.
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Index of American
Design
The Index of American Design, created by the National Gallery of Art,
is an archive consisting of approximately 17,000 watercolor renderings
produced from 1935 to 1942. These images record American decorative
arts objects from the colonial period through the nineteenth century.
Organized by tours of selected subject areas such as pottery, costume,
and textiles, this visual index provides information about American
material culture and the desire to document this culture.
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Perseus Project
The Perseus Project is a searchable database of information concerning
the ancient Greek world. Developed by Editor-in-Chief Gregory Crane,
Professor of Classics at Tufts University, this digital library contains
texts, images of vases, sculptures, coins, and architecture, and reference
materials (atlas, encyclopedia, Greek-English lexicon). Keyword searches
in English or Greek are possible!
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Internet Ancient
History Sourcebooks: Rome
Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and
copy-permitted translations of historical texts presented for educational
use. Developed by Paul Halsall, Fordham University, the Rome site
can be used as a source for primary textual sources and for an overview
of events in Roman history. Links to images can be found under the
heading Art and Architecture.
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Victorian
Web
Created at Brown University as a resource for Victorian literature,
the searchable Victorian Web reflects an interdisciplinary approach
to the study of a particular period in time. Find information on the
arts in Victorian Britain, including Victorian iconography, and Ruskin's
aesthetic and critical theories.
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Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
Developed by the Getty Information Institute, the AAT is a comprehensive
vocabulary of nearly 120,000 terms for describing objects, textural
materials, images, architecture, and material culture from antiquity
to the present. In addition to gaining an accurate definition, the
hierarchical display of terms places the definition in its context
of related terms.
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Union List of Artist Names Browser
Created by the Getty Research Institute as a structured vocabulary
tool, the Union List of Artist Names can be used to obtain the preferred
form of an artist's name. Bibliographical citations follow the artist's
name, and, like Thieme-Becker, can be used to find more sources relating
to the artist.
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ArtLex
ArtLex began as the effort of an art instructor to create a lexicon
of art terms. Now affiliated with Barnes and Noble, the project has
grown into a glossary of 1400 articles and includes images.
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AskART.com
More than just a searchable database for names of artists, AskART
offers a selection of information including artist profiles, an image
gallery, auction records, biographies of artists, book and periodical
references on artists, dealers for a given artist, and museums holding
artists' works.
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Art Guide: The Art Lover's
Guide to Britain and Ireland
Organized by museum, by artist, and geographically, the Art Guide
includes maps, addresses, and telephones for museums and galleries
in Britain and Ireland. The list of artists are linked to the corresponding
museum, allowing the searcher to locate the strengths of a collection
for a particular area in art. No images of art are at this site.
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National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art houses an art collection representative
of the medieval period to the present. The collection of images is
searchable by artist, title, or subject. In-depth studies of artists
and their work can be found at this site.
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National Museum of American Art
The National Museum of American Art is the home of the largest collection
of American art in the world. Browse the collection of over 3000 digitized
images by searching for a particular artist, or choose from a subject
list that includes photography, architecture, abstracts, and more.
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Tate Gallery
The Tate Gallery houses the national collection of British art from
the sixteenth century to the present day. Browse the 8000 image collection
by choosing from an alphabetical list of artists.
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The USC Interactive Art Museum
at the Fisher Gallery
The University of Southern California museum site guides the viewer
through the collections selected for electronic format. The selections
include landscapes by American artists, and J.M.W. Turner's illustrations
to the British poets. Background information is presented with the
images.
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Art Images for College Teaching
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) is dedicated to the principle
of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational
community. Organized chronologically, the site contains images pertaining
to the ancient world, to the medieval era, to renaissance and baroque,
18th-20th century, and non-western art. Images can be downloaded for
educational purposes.
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Artchive
Virtual curator Mark Harden maintains this site containing images
for educational or personal use. Artists are listed alphabetically,
so just click on artist's name to link to images. Current exhibits
in galleries are also listed.
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World Art Treasures
The Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation shares 100,000 slides devoted
to art. Each group of images contains information about the artist
and period.
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Maecenas: Images of Ancient
Greece and Rome
Unrestricted (except for commercial use) collection of photographs
from the personal collection of Leo C. Curran, Professor Emeritas
of Classics, University of Buffalo. Images of Rome, Sicily, and areas
of France are included. Pompeii is well represented with architectural
images, such as paintings from the House of Ara Massima.
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Digital Imaging Project
Images of European and North American architecture and sculpture are
indexed by art historical sites, by artists and architects, or chronologically.
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WebMuseum Network
The WebMuseum is the generous effort of Nicholas Pioch, Ecole Polytechnique,
to provide quality images on the Web. The Famous Paintings exhibition
has an artist index, a glossary, and a themes (style period) index.
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Voice of the Shuttle: Art & Art History
Page
Voice of the Shuttle is the web page for electronic research in the
Humanities. The Art & Art History section contains links to museums,
galleries, artists, art theory, journals & zines, conferences
and calls for papers, teaching resources and more.
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Art History Resources on
the Web
Maintained by Dr. Christopher Witcombe, Professor of Art History at
Sweet Briar College, this site contains links to divisions in art
history by style or time period, research resources, museums and galleries,
and prints and photography.
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Mother of All Art
History Links
Created at the University of Michigan, this directory contains links
to selected Art History Departments, Research Resources, Image Collections
and Online Art, Online Exhibits, Sites of the Sacred, Art Museums,
and Textual and Linguistic Resources.
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