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Museo Nacional de Culturas Populares. Imagen Alta Resolución / High Resolution Image. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. ArtProfiling. ArtProfiling. Asia Art Archive. Museo Memoria y Tolerancia - Mexico - Musée. Plus.google. Arts, Art and Artists Online: The Worldwide Arts Portal. Museo Mundial – Muzeum světa: Expozice ukáže na nedostatek i plýtvání základními potravinami - Pražský patriot. Pražská doprava Startuje čtrnáctý ročník každoroční přehlídky designu – Designblok 2012 Pražská bezpečnost.

Museo Mundial – Muzeum světa: Expozice ukáže na nedostatek i plýtvání základními potravinami - Pražský patriot

Muzeum Stará Čistírna o.p.s. Welcome to the Mark Twain House & Museum - Biography of Mark Twain. As Twain’s books provide insight into the past‚ the events of his personal life further demonstrate his role as an eyewitness to history.

Welcome to the Mark Twain House & Museum - Biography of Mark Twain

During his lifetime‚ Sam Clemens watched a young United States evolve from a nation torn apart by internal conflicts to one of international power. He experienced America’s vast growth and change - from westward expansion to industrialization‚ the end of slavery‚ advancements in technology‚ big government and foreign wars. And along the way‚ he often had something to say about the changes happening in his country. The Early Years Samuel Clemens was born on November 30‚ 1835 in Florida‚ Missouri‚ the sixth of seven children. In 1847‚ when Sam was 11‚ his father died.

Twain’s Young Adult Life At 18‚ Sam headed east to New York City and Philadelphia‚ where he worked on several different newspapers and found some success at writing articles. Hired by the Alta California to continue his travel writing from the east‚ Sam arrived in New York City in 1867. Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum. Yesterday, we wrote about the Wellcome Library’s opening up of its digital archives and making over 100,000 medical images freely available online.

Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum

If you’ve already made your way through this choice selection (or if the prospect of viewing a 19th century leg amputation doesn’t quite pique your curiosity) have no fear. Getty Publications just announced the launch of its Virtual Library, where readers can freely browse and download over 250 art books from the publisher’s backlist catalogue. The Virtual Library consists of texts associated with several Getty institutions. Readers can view extensively researched exhibition catalogues from the J.

Paul Getty Museum, including Paul Cézanne’s late-life watercolours, when the painter raised the still life to a high art (Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, 2004), as well as the woefully underappreciated Flemish illustrations of the 15th and 16th centuries (Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript, 2003). Europeana.eu. Homepage.

The Met Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art. Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.

Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Rijksmuseum

La nueva presentación del Rijksmuseum es como un viaje a través de la historia (del arte) de los Países Bajos desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo XX. Por primera vez, los visitantes pueden viajar a través del tiempo y experimentar de este modo el sentido de la belleza y del tiempo. La historia de los Países Bajos se presenta en un contexto internacional como un cronograma dividido en cuatro plantas y 80 nuevas salas. Precios de entradas Adultos: 17,50€Menores hasta 18 años, gratis Compre su entrada on-line Reservas on-line para grupos Horario. MoMA PS1.