Tag: painting

  • Norman Rockwell Museum digitization project

    Today marks the debut of ProjectNORMAN at the Norman Rockwell Museum. ProjectNORMAN (New Online Rockwell Media Art & Archive Network), begun in 2003, offers not only the museum’s collection but also all images from the artist’s catalogue raisonné, the contents of his last working studio, objects from the Norman Rockwell Archives (including reference photos and…

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  • Nov. 2 lecture: “Velazquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art History”

    Dr. John Marciari, Curator of Italian and Spanish Painting at the San Diego Museum of Art, will deliver a lecture at UCSB entitled “Velazquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art History.” Co-sponsored by the departments of the History of Art and Architecture, Art, and Spanish and Portuguese, the lecture is part of…

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  • Online database for art looted by Nazis

    More than 20,000 works of art were plundered in Germany-occupied France and Belgium from 1940 to 1944. These works, meticulously documented during the war by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), can searched and researched via a new online database. The database combines records from the U.S. National Archives in College Park (MD), the German Bundesarchiv…

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  • Uffizi masterpieces in high resolution

    An Italian company, Haltadefinizione, has created what they call “real high resolution” reproductions of six famous paintings from the Florentine museum.  If you’re wondering just how high resolution these are, the company photographed the six paintings at 3 to 20 billion pixels (yes, billion). However, while their tagline reads “If you can’t come to them,…

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  • Abstract Expressionists going for 44 cents

    The United States Postal Service has announced a new commemorative stamp series honoring 10 Abstract Expressionist painters whose “artistic innovations and achievements…moved the United States to the forefront of the international art scene”. The paintings were selected by Art Historian Jonathan Fineberg (Gutgsell Professor Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) and USPS Art Director…

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