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Jade in Ancient Costa Rica. John James Audubon's Birds of America. John James Audubon's Birds of America is a portal into the natural world.

John James Audubon's Birds of America

Printed between 1827 and 1838, it contains 435 life-sized watercolours of North American birds (Havell edition), all reproduced from hand-engraved plates, and is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration. Nearly 200 years later, the Audubon prints are coming to life once again, thanks to our vibrant digital library. Roam around below and enjoy one of the most treasured pieces of Audubon's grand and wild legacy.

Each print is also available as a free high-resolution download. The images in our collection are provided courtesy of the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove in Audubon, Pennsylvania, and the Montgomery County Audubon Collection. Browser. Open Access at the Barnes. – Barnes Foundation. Throughout the conceptualization of our collection project our general counsel has also been working behind the scenes to help us provide open access to the collection.

Open Access at the Barnes. – Barnes Foundation

At this time 2,081 of our 4,021 objects have been published online. We’ve determined — according to our newly created guidelines — that 1,429 works are not under copyright; you can now download these high resolution images directly from the site. Providing open access to collection objects is a vital step in moving the institution forward in our digital world, but reproduction has always been a tricky subject in the history of the Barnes. Heidelberg University Library: Literature on theory and history of Art – digitized. Within its Specialised Information Service for Art Heidelberg University Library holds an extensive collection of literature of the 16th through the early 20th century.

Heidelberg University Library: Literature on theory and history of Art – digitized

Heidelberg University Library provides digital full-text versions of selected works from its historical collections and makes them available on the internet free of charge. Digitisation Service “Wunschbuch Kunst” If you miss an art-historical title in our digital collection our Service “Wunschbuch Kunst” (in German) welcomes your suggestion. Current DFG-Projects. 17 Best images about Digital Collections from the Met Museum Libraries on Pinterest. Open Arts Objects. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : Free Texts : Download & Streaming.

The Solomon R.

the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum : Free Texts : Download & Streaming

Letters Between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Model Fanny Cornforth Are Now Online. Fanny Cornforth is often remembered only through her presence in the paintings of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, her mass of flowing hair one of the most recognizable visuals in his 19th-century work.

Letters Between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Model Fanny Cornforth Are Now Online

A newly digitized archive at the Delaware Art Museum (DAM) adds her voice to her history as an artist’s model and muse. Cornforth’s correspondence with Rossetti is featured in the Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Manuscript Collection, part of the initial 500 items available in DAM’s digital collections portal. The online platform for DAM’s Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives was announced this month. Along with the Pre-Raphaelite papers, the new digital offerings include the John Sloan Manuscript Collection, the Howard Pyle Manuscript Collection, and DAM’s institutional archives.

One of those visits was from Azelina Flint, a PhD candidate in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia in the UK. The letters culminate with a sad story. Elizabethancostume. MetMedia. Millions of Objects at 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized for Online Database. A new database launched by an international consortium of art institutions is working to grant internet users unprecedented access to dozens of art historical photo archives, which capture multiple images of a single artwork over time.

Millions of Objects at 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized for Online Database

Collectively known as PHAROS, the group is gradually digitizing millions of images, many of which are previously unpublished and accessible only through physical visits to individual research repositories. The 14 institutions involved include the Frick Collection (which is leading the project), Rome’s Bibliotheca Hertziana, the Courtauld Institute, Getty Research Institute, Paris’s Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, and the Yale Center for British Art.

All this information will help you track various copies of a single artwork by different artists. First established in the late 19th century, photoarchives were much-needed resources for scholars whose art history books often had little to no illustrations. Search Results: MediaCollectionId equal to 'JCB~1~1' - John Carter Brown. Rijksstudio. Home Page in Oxford Art Online. Welcome to Oxford Art Online, the access point for subscriptions to Grove® Art Online, the Benezit® Dictionary of Artists, and other Oxford art reference resources.

Home Page in Oxford Art Online

In 2017, you'll notice some improvements to Oxford Art Online, including a fresh look and feel, improved search capabilities, and even more frequent updates to the content. Contact us with any questions or comments. Betty Tompkins: Censored Grid #13, pencil and ink on paper, 17x14", 2008 (left) and Censored Grid #14, pencil and ink on paper, 17x14", 2008 (right) Listen to Benezit Editor-in-Chief Dr. Kathy Battista interview artist Betty Tompkins as part of the Oxford Comment podcast series. J. Paul Getty Museum publishes more than 30,000 images using IIIF. LOS ANGELES, CA.

J. Paul Getty Museum publishes more than 30,000 images using IIIF

-The Getty today made available more than 30,000 images of objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), which allows researchers to bring together images from different institutional websites for comparison, manipulation and annotation. By clicking on the IIIF logo next to an image, users can pull together images from different collections, dragging and dropping millions of images and associated metadata from institutions across the world for side-by-side analysis.

As a result, for the first time, users can digitally examine works of art held in separate collections worldwide and easily share their findings. “With IIIF, scholars can move images beyond the confines of separate institutional websites and bring them together for study. 0892362006. Untitled. Códice Mendoza - INAH 2015. OpenArtsArchive. A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries. Many of the works we found—well, nobody knew they were there.

A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries

Nobody knew anything about the artists. … They weren’t important, but rather beholden to their fathers, mothers, and husbands. They had no voice. Simple Book Publishing. Students Guide and reference Italian Rrenaissance Architecture. Toledo Museum of Art. 25 Million Images From 14 Art Institutions to Be Digitized & Put Online In One Huge Scholarly Archive. LACMA Art Museum Releases 20,000 Free Downloadable Art. Vogue Archive. Presidential Libraries Museum Exhibits.

The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled "Degenerate Art": The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online. The 16,000 Artworks the Nazis Censored and Labeled “Degenerate Art”: The Complete Historic Inventory Is Now Online. Art UK. Students Guide and reference Italian Rrenaissance Architecture.

Now available: College Art Museums Collection Launch Part I. Elihu Vedder.

Now available: College Art Museums Collection Launch Part I

Natura: detail of head. c. 1893. Pastel, crayon, and graphite on paper. Image and original data provided by Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Style of Sajanu. Adoration of Parasurama. c. 1810. Newsboy (Photographer). Julia Margaret Cameron: Complete Photographs. According to one of Julia Margaret Cameron’s great-nieces, “we never knew what Aunt Julia was going to do next, nor did anyone else.”

This is an accurate summation of the life of the British photographer (1815–1879), who took up the camera at age forty-eight and made more than twelve hundred images during a fourteen-year career. The Art of Art History : A Critical Anthology: A Critical Anthology. The Art Institute of Chicago is now offering unrestricted access to over 44,000 images from its digital archives.

History Of Italian Renaissance Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Hartt, Frederick 7th Ed 2011 : Hartt, Frederick.