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Art
Art
and Architecture Images
- 3-D
Model Search Engine -- from Princeton U.
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American
Museum of Photography
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Anthropology
Collection Database -- The database includes digital images of
collection objects, most of which are ethnographic. Currently there
are over 8,000 images available out of 17,000, documenting the areas
of strength in the collection. Digital photographing of the remainder
of the collection is an ongoing project.
- Architecture
and Interior Design for 20th Century America--the
Gottscho-Schleisner collection of over 29,000 images.
- Art
Crimes--one of the largest collections ever assembled of
graffiti.
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Artcyclopedia--works of
7,500 famous artists in art museums and image
archives worldwide. Searchable.
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Art
Exhibits
- Art
Guide--"a comprehensive guide to the art collections of
Great Britain and Ireland.
- Art
Image Base--contains over 60,000 art works by over 15,000
artists, retrievable by artist, title, nationality, time period, image
content.
- Art
Magick--an online art gallery with over a thousand paintings and some poetry from art
movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, biographies too.
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Boston Museum of
Fine Arts -- searchable by keyword.
- British
Library Treasures -- digitized illuminated manuscripts
including a 700 year old Qu'ran and Leonardo's notebooks, plus more
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Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame -- an excellent site with over
3000 images of the art, stained glass and architectural details of the
cathedral, searchable and browsable with zoom capabilities.
- Christus
Rex--a site for Christian art and documents.
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Clip
Art Searcher--specially configured Hotbot and other search
engines allow you to search for images, icons,
backgrounds.
- Daguerrian
Society--an extensive collection of Daguerrotypes, and links
to other online collections.
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Digital
archive of American Architecture
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Editorial
Cartoonists--for a totally unfair but funny take on politics,
visit some award winning political cartoonists.
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Figurae
-- "a collection of images of art objects, architecture,
archaeological remains, site-plans, & maps. We seek images that
can represent a broad range of communities, artists, genres, regions,
and periods. Our purpose is to collect & make easily accessible
well described images that are normally difficult for students &
teachers to find." 288 images and counting, searchable.
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Getty
Images -- photography, illustration and archival images, plus
film clips.
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the
Great Buildings Collection--for a wide selection of buildings
throughout the world
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Helios:
National Museum of American Art Photography Online--this is
the photography site for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum
of Art
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Himalayan
Art -- provides digital images of Himalayan art from museums,
private collections, and universities. Includes an index and a
search option. Also provides links to other sites and an audio
glossary for correct pronunciation of Tibetan or Sanskrit words.
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Illuminated
Manuscripts: 11th to 19th century -- from the Bodleian
Library, Oxford, England. An excellent site, includes commonplace
books and medical texts as well as sacred books and more.
- ImageServe--over
10,000 images of European and Australian art and architecture.
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Images
of Women in Ancient Art -- images and commentary on women in
ancient art by Prof. Chris Witcombe of Sweet Briar College.
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Lambiek
Comiclopedia -- "an illustrated compendium
of over 7,000 international comic artists with biographies and artwork
examples." for print-published artists only, so far...
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The
Last Supper -- a history of the painting, preparatory drawings ,
a bibliography and more...
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Latin
American Art Directory--biographies, interviews, exhibitions,
articles and images
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Memory
of the World
-- sponsored by
UNESCO, this website offers access to over 160 digitized collections
from around the world, including many art collections.
- Museums:
World Wide Arts Resources
- National Cartoon Museum--visit its Artists section and see bios
and a few cartoons from a sizable roster of artists
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National
Gallery of Art Virtual Tour
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National
Inventory of Continental European Paintings -- NICE Paintings --
Searchable by regular artist, title, but also by subject, materials and
technique. A great site.
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Panoramas:
The North American Landscape in Art -- The Canadian Heritage
Information Network, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and their respective governments are
proud to present this trilateral virtual exhibition celebrating the
landscape of North America.
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Posters
American Style -- poster art from America's history, including
political posters, commercial posters, and posters announcing special
events.
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QBIC
Colour and Layout Searches -- an amazing site from the
Hermitage Museum. Find museum paintings by just the colors you
remember it having or what fruits were where.
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Renaissance
and Baroque Architecture--an extensive collection of slides.
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Society
of Architectural Historians Image Exchange Project--focusing
on American architecture 1850-1899.
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SPIRO:
Architecture Slide Library Catalog
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Subject
Directory of Image Sites--from Paula Berinstein, author of
Finding Images Online
- Symbols.Com--find
the symbol to represent a word using the word index, or the meaning of
a graphic symbol with the graphic index
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Symbols
in Christian Art and Architecture--a searchable index of
symbols, with meanings and religious figures associated with them.
Frames, with clean simple graphics.
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Virtual
Tour of Museums and Exhibits: links to many museums that have
online guided tours.
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Web
Gallery of Art -- a searchable database of European painting
and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods
(1150-1800), with about 11,000 reproductions.
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World Images -- over
50,000 images, and can be freely used for non-profit educational
purposes.
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