Yale University announced it now allows free access to its ever-growing database of digital images of objects housed in the university’s museums, archives, and libraries. Discover Yale Digital Commons already hosts almost 260,000 digital images and records, with the goal of adding over 1.5 million. The interface allows cross-collection searching of Yale’s vast respositories, including the…
If you are interested in early 20th century Moscow, there is a collection of historic photographs recently posted on Flickr. These previously unpublished photographs were taken by the poster’s great grandfather while on a trip to the Russian city in 1909. The images are a part of cranewoods.com’s photostream and can be viewed by everyone;…
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”…
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.
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…
The ARTstor Digital Library has just announced these images are now available: ART on FILE: 1,100 images of contemporary architecture in the United Arab Emirates, which brings the final total to 11,743 views of contemporary architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art from around the world Islamic Art and Architecture Collection: 250 images of…