Tag: universities

  • Latest images and agreements from ARTstor

    ARTstor’s Digital Library now has these collections available: Shangri La, Honolulu, Hawaii (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art): 400 images of Islamic and South Asian art from the collection at Shangri La, the former home of Doris Duke (1912-1993) [1/2 of the projected 800] Yao Ceremonial Artifacts Collection (Ohio University): 3,714 art works and objects created…

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  • BBC hosts Your Paintings website

    The BBC, in partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation and public museums and collections, has launched the website Your Paintings, which “aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real.” The site is searchable by artist last name and subject matter.…

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  • UCSB Digital Collections now online

    A selection of the material from Davidson Library’s Special Collections is now available digitally.  Drawing from the rich holdings of audio recordings, photos, archives, scores, posters and more, the material is a valuable digital resource.  This launch site contains several thousand of the over 500,000 items in Special Collections, with plans to continue growing. Some…

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  • Yale offers free online access to digital images

    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…

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  • Ara Pacis Augustae in pictures and words

    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…

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  • Picturing the Netherlandish Canon

    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.

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