The following brief report describes the 3rd part of an excellent survey
of art image sources on the Web. Essential reading!
Doug
Douglas Dodds
Head of Central Services
Word & Image Department
Victoria & Albert Museum
South Kensington
LONDON SW7 2RL
Tel 020 7942 2397
Fax 020 7942 2394
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The V&A's Word & Image Department incorporates the National Art Library
and the Museum's prints, drawings, paintings and photographs
collections.
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(The following text is taken from RLG's Shelflife email information
service, with thanks and apologies for any cross-posting)
SO MANY ART SITES, SO LITTLE TIME
An unimaginable wealth of art is now digitally accessible and preserved
by
art history institutions outside the U.S., with some of the greatest
art
museums offering continuous virtual exhibits and visual databases of
their
treasures. The Information Today URL below offers an extensive list of
these free Web resources, which document the art history of Western
civilization, primarily from medieval times to the end of the 19th
century.
Many of these databases offer access to thousands of images -- at least
three sites cover over a million digital pictures. As with Google
searches,
the trick to non-English databases is knowing how best to construct a
query. Many art databases do not contain controlled vocabulary lists or
the
ability to retrieve just online images, so unless you know your
artists,
the titles of their works or some other facet of their art, trial and
error
may be your only hope. Meanwhile, enjoy the likes of: The Web Gallery
of
Art (http://www.wga.hu/index.html), a Hungarian-based site featuring
more
than 12,000 online JPG images of European art; or the 65,000 works in
London's Tate Gallery (http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm); or
Russia's State Hermitage Museum
(http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/),
one section of which lets you find artwork by color or shape.
(Information
Today Nov 2004)
<http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov04/Mattison.shtml>
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