An agreement was signed today by several organizations devoted to the research and recovery of art and artifacts looted by the Nazis. Records and documents will be available via a single web portal, providing access to the National Archives of the United Kingdom, the US National Archives and Records Administration, Germany’s Bundesarchiv, and the Commission…
ARTstor updated its Digital Library to include three new features: Choose number of results you see per page: 24, 48, or 72 (this works for both small and large thumbnail viewing) Add a description your image groups (which, when created, appears to the right of your image group list in the “Open an image group”…
Charles S. Rhyne, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Reed College, has created a new website dedicated to the visual and historiographical study of the ancient Roman monument Ara Pacis Augustae. In his preface, Professor Rhyne explains that the site’s objective is “to make available a more comprehensive body of images of the Ara Pacis…
The Courtauld Institute of Art has launched a website that reproduces 68 portraits of Netherlandish artists printed in Hendrick Hondius the Elder’s Pictorum aliquot celebrium, præcipué Germaniæ Inferioris, effiges (The Hague, 1610; edition from the British Library). These high quality images are accompanied by translations of the Latin texts and analytical essays by leading scholars.
Join us for the 36th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium: “Moralities in the Visual Arts”. The symposium kicks off Friday with a 4:00 pm keynote address in Theater and Dance Room 1701 by Richard Dyer (Professor of Film Studies, King’s College, London). Saturday’s panels are in Life Sciences 1001 and conclude with a keynote…
ARTstor has added these collections to the Digital Library: Fowler Museum, UCLA: 717 images from the permanent collection, with a focus on Africa Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University): 196 images of African textiles, contemporary Inuit prints and drawings, and Vietnam War-era photography Colby College Museum: 2,463 images from the permanent collection, especially…