The Morgan Library & Museum announced they have digitized their collection of Rembrandt etchings — almost five hundred images — and have made them available online. The Morgan holds impressions of most of the three hundred or so known etchings by Rembrandt, as well as multiple, often exceedingly rare impressions of various states. Each etching…
In 2011, we reported that The Israeli Museum launched The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls, an online resource for beautiful images and scholarly translations of the scrolls. Now, the Israel Antiquities Authority just debuted an upgraded version of its Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library. It includes 10,000 new multispectral images as well as improved…
Getty Publications is now offering users (free of charge!) digital copies of 235 Getty backlist titles, including many that are now out of print, from the Museum, the Conservation Institute, and the Research Institute. For additional information on digital publication resources offered by the Getty, click here.
The Library is currently accepting applications from student artists for the relaunch of their Wireless Art Network (WAN), a network created by two UCSB graduates, Chris Silva (MFA, New Media, 2013) and Raymond Douglas (BA, Art Studio, 2013), to display art through wireless 802.11 technologies in public spaces. This wireless network, not connected to the…
Wellcome Library, London, announced they have made available over 100,000 high resolution images from their vast collection of resources for the study of all facets of medical history. These images include examples from ancient and medieval medical illuminated manuscripts, paintings and etchings about human anatomy and form, early photographic studies and travel portraits. These can all…