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Web Sites for Art
Visual Arts (General)
| Architecture
| Photography | Arts
In General
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- ARTstor (Access
restricted to St. Olaf students, faculty, and staff)
- A "repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images
and related data." Covers architecture, painting, sculpture,
photography, decorative arts, and design from many cultures.
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Visual
Arts (General)
- Archives of American
Art
- A bureau of Smithsonian Institution, the Archives of
American Art provides researchers with access to the largest collection
of documents on the history of the visual arts in the United States.
The collection now totals more than thirteen million items.
- The
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
- Housed at Getty Information Institute, this controlled
vocabulary thesaurus can be used to improve access to cultural heritage
information in the global networked environment.
- Art
History Resources on the Web
- A site maintained by Christopher Witcombe, Associate
Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College.
- Art Images
for College Teaching (AICT)
- AICT began as a personal project dedicated to the principle
of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational
community, and developed into a website housed at the Minneapolis College
of Art and Design.
- Art on Film Online
- This database from New York's Pratt Institute provides
records of "moving image productions" about the fine and decorative
arts.
- ArtLex Dictionary of
Visual Art
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- ArtSource
- A gathering point for networked resources on Art and
Architecture created by the University of Kentucky.
- National Endowment for
the Arts
- The homepage of the National Endowment for the Arts includes
a Guide to the NEA, Community Contents, and an Arts Resource Center.
- National Gallery
of Art-The Collection
- Provides an excellent tour of the National Gallery. Also
gives an orientation to the history and purpose of the National Gallery,
its hours and phone numbers, calendar of events and its resouces.
- National Museum of
American Art
- Contains information about location, hours, current exhibits,
education programs, membership, and highlights from the collection.
Prints and photographs
online catalog- Provides access to the Prints and Photographs collection at the Library
of Congress. Many of the photographs are available online.
Vatican museums- Information on visiting the Vatican, plus virtual exhibits
and a catalog of publications
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Architecture
The
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
- Housed at Getty Information Institute, this controlled
vocabulary thesaurus can be used to improve access to cultural heritage
information in the global networked environment.
- Art Images
for College Teaching (AICT)
- AICT began as a personal project dedicated to the principle
of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational
community, and developed into a website housed at the Minneapolis College
of Art and Design.
- ArtSource
- A gathering point for networked resources on Art and
Architecture created by the University of Kentucky.
- Chartres:
Cathedral of Notre-Dame
- Images and descriptions of the famous cathedral.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- A site from PBS, based on the documentary film by Ken
Burns. An introduction to Wright's life and work.
- Structurae
- Database containing nearly 10,000 structures from ancient
Egypt to modern sky scrapers. Records often include pictures, technical
drawings and data, a timeline of the building, and links to other websites.
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Photography
George Eastman House
- International Museum of Photography and Film
- This site, located at the Rochester Institute of Technology,
provides users access to a comprehensive collection on the history of
photography. It includes information on Eastman himself, the Museum's
exhibits (including a timeline of photography), a film calendar, libraries
and research, and links to related sites.
- A History
of Photography
- From its beginnings to the 1920's by Dr. Robert Leggat
MA M.Ed FRPS FRSA.
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Arts
In General
- The
Art & Architecture Thesaurus Browser
- Housed at Getty Information Institute, this controlled
vocabulary thesaurus can be used to improve access to cultural heritage
information in the global networked environment.
- Art
History Resources on the Web
- A site maintained by Christopher Witcombe, Associate
Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College.
- Art Images
for College Teaching (AICT)
- AICT began as a personal project dedicated to the principle
of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational
community, and developed into a website housed at the Minneapolis College
of Art and Design.
- ArtSource
- A gathering point for networked resources on Art and
Architecture created by the University of Kentucky.
- National Endowment for
the Arts
- The homepage of the National Endowment for the
Arts includes a Guide to the NEA, Community Contents, and an Arts Resource
Center.
- Timeline of Art History
- "The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical,
and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world,
as illustrated especially by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection."
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