Category: image searching
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Berlin’s Free University launches “Degenerate Art” database
The “Degenerate Art” Research Center, Art History Institute at the Freie Universität Berlin now hosts a database that documents the fate of over 21,000 works of art deemed “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art) and confiscated by the Nazis in 1937. The database is searchable by artist, title, object type, current repository and specific Nazi-era exhibitions. Many…
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JSTOR digitizes auction catalogs
JSTOR, in collaboration with the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, offers a beta website to search auction catalogs from these two institutions. The pilot project digitizes and transcribes select pages from a set of American and British auction catalogs dating from the 18th-early 20th century. Users are encouraged to offer feedback, including…
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Most recent announcements from ARTstor
These collections are now available on ARTstor’s Digital Library: Cook’s Voyages to the South Seas (Natural History Museum, London): 1,647 images of botanical and zoological illustrations associated with Captain James Cook’s expeditions to the South Pacific from 1768 – 1779 (keywords: endeavour botanical OR cook forster OR cook ellis) Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and Estate: 1,172…