A digital archive of American architecture
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/
This website is an archive of nearly 1500 images portraying the development of American architecture from 1630 to the present, with a particular emphasis on Boston. It has been designed as a network tool for use in teaching art history at Boston College, Massachusetts. The archive is searchable by date, building type, style, location and architect's name. It also features comparative material about European architecture, and provides links to other relevant sites. It is part of a larger digital archive of architecture.
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A digital archive of architecture
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/contents_europe.html
Created in 1997 by Jeffrey Howe from Boston College, United States, the Digital Archive of Architecture is a database of images of the history of architecture. It ranges from the pre-historic to the twentieth century and covers the following periods and architectural styles and types of buildings: Pre-Historic; Greek; Roman; Romanesque churches; Gothic churches; Medieval fortifications; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; and Belgian architecture. Thumbnail pictures link to larger sized images. Included is a large list of links to architecture related websites. The site should prove to be a good study guide for senior secondary students and undergraduates.
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A&A : art and architecture
http://www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/
Art and Architecture (A&A) is a resource from the Courtauld Institute of Art which makes available a selection of paintings, drawings, architectural images and sculpture from the Institute's Conway and Witt photographic libraries. The website provides the facility to search by keyword or browse by geographical location, category or creator. An advanced search option is also available. Free registration provides users with additional facilities, such as the creation of image sets, contribution to discussion forums and the purchase of prints from the collection.
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AHDS Performing Arts
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/
The AHDS Performing Arts (formerly known as PADS - Performing Arts Data Service) was one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). It was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council for eleven years until March 2008 and is freely available. The AHDS Performing Arts collected, documented, preserved and promoted the use of digital data resources to support research and teaching in music, film, theatre, dance and the broadcast arts. It provided information and support in data documentation, encoding formats and digitisation processes for the wide variety of media types created in its subject areas. It also facilitated access to a growing number of significant collections, including the Bach Bibliography Database, the Scottish Screen Archive Catalogue, the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture Catalogue, the Scottish Music Information Centre Catalogue, and the King Lear Performance Photographs Collection; all of which are held by AHDS Performing Arts for preservation only and must be accessed through external sites. Other collections, such as the North African Film and Filmmakers Dictionary, and the Five Centuries of Scottish Music Collection are hosted by AHDS Performing Arts.
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AHDS Visual Arts
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/
The AHDS Visual Arts was one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), which was funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) until 31 March 2008. The AHDS Visual Arts maintained a searchable online archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community for learning, teaching and research; these are now being maintained by VADS (Visual Arts Data Service). Collections currently available through the VADS service include: Diversity Art Forum - formerly known as the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive (AAVAA); Imperial War Museum Art Collection; The Design Council Archive; Documentary Photography; Jacob Riis Computer Aided Learning package; London College of Fashion (LCF) College Archive; LCF's Cordwainers Shoe Collection; LCF's Woolmark Company Archive; The Halliwell Collection and The Basic Design Collections, both based at the National Arts Education Archive, Bretton Hall; the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles at Goldsmiths College; POSSE (Preserve Our Student Shows for Eternity) student degree shows at the Glasgow School of Art and Design, the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College (now known as the University College for the Creative Arts) and the University of Portsmouth illustration course; the Textile Collection at University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham; the J. L. Carr Collection; the Sir Henry Dryden Collection; the John Johnson Collection of Political Prints; the John Johnson Collection of Trades & Professions; the Tim Mara Collection; and the Elaine Thomas Collection 'Adopting a stance'. The AHDS Visual Arts also promoted good practice in the creation, management and preservation of digital resources through an advisory, training and publications programme. The Web presence for AHDS Visual Arts has been archived from March 2008.
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AICT : art images for college teaching
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) was created by art historian and visual resources curator, Allan T. Kohl, from his own photographs. It was constructed by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and it is now hosted by the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota. Images included in the AICT website are organised into five chronological and cultural groupings: Ancient world; Medieval era; Renaissance and Baroque; 18th Century to 20th Century; and non-Western cultures. These sections are further sub-divided. Each thumbnail picture is linked to a larger sized image and the title of the image and its description, location and text references are supplied, where known. An additional feature includes a list of the textbooks that have been referenced. The site is intended as a teaching and learning resource and would serve undergraduate-level study.
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Ancient city of Athens
http://www.stoa.org/athens/
The Ancient City of Athens page has an extensive range of photographs of principal archaeological sites in Athens, taken from the slide collections of Prof. Kevin Glowacki and Nancy Klein. Although principally for their undergraduate students in the Department of Classical Studies at Indiana University, the page has great value for all interested in the topography and architecture of the city. The photographs are grouped into the following sections: The Acropolis, The South, North and East Slopes of the Acropolis, the Philoppapos Monument, the Pnyx, the Agora, the Roman Agora, the Library of Hadrian, the Lysikrates Monument, the Arch of Hadrian, the Olympieion and South-East Athens and the Kerameikos. Within these sections, there is a good range of general and detailed views. The photographs from the Acropolis' slopes are particularly useful, not only because they are annotated but since access to these sites is difficult for most visitors to Athens. In addition, the Acropolis section provides far more than the usual snapshots, with detailed photos of architectural sculpture and Pre-Classical building works. The photos of the Agora and Kerameikos offer an excellent and comprehensive selection. The photographs are of a good standard, but cannot be enlarged. The Athenian sunshine makes photography difficult, and some photos suffer from the intensity of the shadows. This makes it difficult to discern details, such as in the photograph of the Parthenon's North Pteron. Most benefit is to be derived from this site with some background knowledge of the city and chronology. There is an accompanying essay by Prof. Glowacki about Athens and topography which has links to other relevant sites and some bibliography. The page is the deserving recipient of a number of awards.
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APOLLO and collections [Royal Academy of Music]
http://www.ram.ac.uk/facilitiesandcollections/Collections/
This is the website for APOLLO (Academy Pictures On-Line) the Royal Academy of Music's digital image repository. Drawn from its collections, which include instruments, manuscripts, art works, teaching aids, furnishings and memorabilia, there are over 18,000 catalogued items, with 9,000 images (although not all are available online due to copyright). There are a number of individual named collections which each have a specific focus, relating to significant individuals or donations. As well as the searchable online catalogue the website includes a series of illustrated tours of items in the collection.
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ARTstor
http://www.artstor.org/
ARTstor is an online database containing several hundred thousand images of artworks and other materials. Use of the database is restricted to subscribing institutions and materials are only made available for non-commercial educational and scholarly purposes. The ARTstor collection comes from a number of source collections, including: the Islamic Art and Architecture Collection (Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny); the Art History Survey Collection; the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; the Huntington Archive of Asian Art; the Illustrated Bartsch; the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; and the Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collection at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, among many other collections. Together, these collections cover "artistic traditions across many times and cultures", encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, plus many other forms of visual and material culture. ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Artworld
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/ARTWORLD.html
This Web page is part of the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) website, and provides an introduction to the ArtWorld project. ArtWorld was a collaborative project between the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, and the Oriental Museum at the University of Durham. ArtWorld provides online access to primary visual source materials from the collections at both institutions, for the enhancement of teaching and learning in world art studies. It features objects from Asia, Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, spanning thousands of years of human creativity. Digital images from the ArtWorld project are available to search online via the VADS website. The project was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) of the Higher Education Funding Council in their 5/99 strand.
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Asian historical architecture
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/
The 'Asian historical architecture' website gives an overview in text and images of many of Asia's most important buildings (defined as the area that was, or is, under the influence of Confucianism, Buddhism or Hinduism). The site is organised geographically, with a map that can be clicked on to access the various architectural sites included - they are also listed in a separate frame to the left of the page. When a building is chosen a number of images are brought up, which can be viewed individually or in a slideshow. The images are followed by text placing the images in physical and historical context. The site covers India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea (North and South), Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Nepal, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Begun in 1989 as a course-related website for the University of Virginia, it was soon opened up for anyone to access or contribute to.
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Chartres : Cathedral of Notre-Dame
http://eldorado.library.pitt.edu/c/chartres/
The Chartres: Cathedral of Notre-Dame image collection website provides access to a collection of over 3,000 high-resolution images (photographs, diagrams, and maps) of, or connected to, Chartres Cathedral - one of the best-preserved French gothic cathedrals in France, dating (predominantly) from the thirteenth century. Of particular note are its sculpture and stained glass. Each item is accompanied by descriptive information, including subject keywords that allow the collection to be searched easily and effectively. For more structured browsing, a link is provided to the relevant page of the MEDART website, where interactive diagrams providing access to themed subsets of the images are available. Users can zoom in on pictures to examine details of the Cathedral's architecture (which is in the high gothic style), including the stained glass windows, sculpture, and wall paintings. Images of two illuminated medieval manuscripts are also available. This attractive and well-presented resource is a joint project between the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library and Professor of History of Art and Architecture Alison Stones. The digital images in the collection are often of a very high resolution and permission is granted for their educational use, provided due acknowledgment is given.
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Chicago imagebase
http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase/
Developed by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Chicago Imagebase website is an interactive web-based database aimed at enhancing knowledge about the built environment of the Chicago region. It brings together images, maps, literature and other data in a series of projects focusing on different areas. Information can be accessed via a table of contents, a clickable map or through an index of building and architects (including Frank Lloyd Wright). Its coverage includes individual buildings and historical images.
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Cities and buildings database
http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html
The Cities and Buildings Database is a "collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web". Established by Meredith L. Clausen, Professor of Architectural History at the University of Washington and now part of the University of Washington Libraries' digital collections, the archive features a wide variety of public and private buildings from historical to modern times. It can be searched by keyword or by using advanced criteria, such as title, architect, builder, nation, state, city or site; it can also be browsed by country.
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Collected visions
http://cvisions.nyu.edu/
Published on the website of the Center for Advanced Technology at New York University and conceived and updated by Lorie Novak, this website uses deomestic photographs, which have been contributed by over 300 people worldwide to explore the relationship between family photographs and memory. The online database of images can be searched and used to create photographic essays. Changing exhibitions of selected photo-essays are presented in the Collected Visions (CV) Gallery and then archived in the Collected Visions Museum. A resources section provides bibliographies of books, articles, catalogues and artists' books that deal with family snapshots and memory. The website is available in English and Spanish.
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Corpus vitrearum medii aevi
http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/CVMA.html
The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) collection is hosted by the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), and this Web page provides introductory information and access to the searchable collection through the VADS interface or the CVMA's own website. The CVMA was founded in 1949 and has committees in twelve countries. In Britain it is a British Academy Research Project whose activities include the creation of this picture archive. The image collection contains over 18,000 images, most provided by the National Monuments Record, with others from sources such as the Centre for Medieval Studies, York, and several private collections.
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Covering photography
http://www.coveringphotography.com/
The Covering Photography website looks at the history of photography and book cover design, and how photographs get transformed when they are used on book covers. The website provides a book cover image database, which is browsable by photographer, author, publisher, publication date, and designer. Each thumbnail image in the database contains information about the book, including: photographer, author, publisher, publication date, designer, photo genre, book genre, and group. The brainchild of Professor Karl Baden, from the Fine Arts Department of Boston College, Covering Photography was constructed and hosted by Boston College's Instructural Design and eTeaching Services, and has been active since October 2006. The 'more' section of the website provides a history of the project, as well as an interesting discussion about the transformation of a photograph to a book cover; how the image is often manipulated; and how this 'shift in context affects a photograph's meaning'. A comprehensive and scholarly resource, Covering Photography links photo-history, design, literature and cultural studies, and would be of interest to students and academics of all the above subjects, as well as publishers, book collectors and writers.
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Dartmoor Archive
http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/dartmoor.trust.archive/
The Dartmoor Archive is aiming to digitise and make available a number of collections of historical photographs of the Dartmoor area. As well as featuring an accompanying description, with information about the creation of the original image, and historical details about the depicted place, each image is catalogued with detailed metadata, including keywords and an Ordnance Survey grid reference. The website includes the facility to browse images and perform a number of searches of the database including by parish, geographic feature, collection, keywords and archive number.
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Digimap collections
http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/
Digimap collections delivers Ordnance Survey digital map data to UK higher and further education users. Data is available either to download for use within appropriate application softwares such as GIS, or as maps generated by Digimap online. Maps of any location in Great Britain may be viewed and printed at a series of predefined sclaes, and an online gazetter is available for place-name searches. Digimap also allows cartographic tasks such as user-specified scale, combining datasets on a map, and large-format printing. Access requires an institutional subscription and an additional username and password. Digimap receives funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Description supplied by the JISC Resource Guide for the Arts and Humanities.
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Digital Clendening
http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/index.html
The Digital Clendening is the result of a digitisation project undertaken by the Clendening Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center. It offers access to a large number of high quality images derived from eight major special collections held by the library: the letters of Florence Nightingale, an internationally renowned collection of rare medical and natural history texts, over 500 portraits of medical men and women, the Rudolf Virchow manuscripts, the Samuel Crumbine papers (inventory only), Ralph Major photographs (inventory only), Japanese medical prints, and Chinese public health posters. The site is fully searchable, and all of the images visible on it are freely available for educational purposes. Full details on how to obtain reproductions are also provided. Many of the images are extensively annotated with detailed biographical, bibliographical and other information obtained from authoritative sources such as Morton's Medical Bibliography.
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Digital library for the decorative arts and material culture
http://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/
This digital library "collects and creates electronic resources for study and research of the decorative arts, with a particular focus on Early America". Its two main collections are its 'Electronic Facsimiles' of primary texts, and the 'Chipstone Collection', which includes images of 17th and 18th century ceramics and of early American furniture. In addition to its own collections, the digital library provides extensive links to other document and image collections and to relevant organisations or institutions.
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Drexel digital museum project : historic costume collection
http://digimuse.cis.drexel.edu
The Drexel Digital Museum Project is a joint initiative between the College of Media Arts & Design and the College of Information Science & Technology of Drexel University in Philadelphia. Currently, the project comprises a searchable database of the Drexel Historic Costume Collection. Dating back to the 1890s, this collection represents 200 years of historic costume and textile design and includes many notable 20th Century fashion designers, such as Vionnet, Givenchy, Chanel, Norell, St. Laurent, Charles Worth, Moschino and Zandra Rhodes. The database can be searched by decade, designer, fabric, category or donor. Images of garments from the collection can be viewed in 3D panorama of the exhibition galleries, with facilities to zoom-in and to view select detailed images. Two digital galleries, created from actual exhibitions, provide contextual information about Chinese robes from the Qing Dynasty and about the designer Geoffrey Beene, showing couture evening wear and sportswear from the private collection of Iris Barrel Apfel.
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Education image gallery (EIG)
http://www.edina.ac.uk/eig/
Specifically designed for educational purposes at FE and HE institutions, the Education Image Gallery (EIG) provides access to a unique and exciting collection of 50,000 images. This reference source captures key events from the 19th century to the present. It draws on the vast resources of Hulton Archive, PhotoDisc and the Getty Images News Service (current events and sport) to provide you with the finest library of images from around the world. A large variety of images are included, covering key events and multiple subject areas including history, entertainment, sport, science, fashion, politics, music, conflict, film, art, leisure and women's studies. With the curriculum-related images selected by leading academics you can illustrate key times, places, people and events. The images are copyright-cleared and available for downloading in screen-resolution format for (appropriately credited) free use in learning, teaching and research. Any images incorporated into printed learning and teaching materials can continue to be used even after the current sub-licence expires in July 2010. Institutional subscription and an additional username and password are required to access the collection.
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Elements of drawing : an online version of Ruskin's teaching collection at Oxford
http://ruskin.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/
This is the website for an AHRC-funded project which aims to make available digital images of the collection of works assembled by John Ruskin to aid his teaching of drawing at Oxford University, together with the various catalogues of the collection which Ruskin created. The collection consists of watercolours and drawings by Ruskin and his associates, 19th century photographs of paintings and architecture, and a number of watercolours, drawings and prints by Old Masters and modern artists - notably Turner, Burne-Jones, and Dürer. The digitisation project is a collaboration between the Ashmolean Museum, the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and the Oxford University Computing Services Learning Technologies Group. The project website gives background information about the project and the collections and catalogues earmarked for digitisation. The site also provides a link to the online database of digitised images, which will grow as the project progresses, and already includes electronic versions of Ruskin's catalogues.
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Ephemeral films
http://www.archive.org/details/ephemera/
Ephemeral films is part of the Internet Archive Moving Images database. Ephemeral films are described as "non-fiction films usually made for educational, industrial, or promotional purposes". Available for viewing and/or downloading, there are over 200 guidance films from the post World War II British government; drive-in movie intermission ads; vintage educational films; and videos documenting the history of San Francisco from 1906 to the early 21st Century. Access is also provided to two classic ephemeral film collections: the Prelinger Archives and AV Geeks. A list of the items can be browsed alphabetically, by subject or using keywords. A VLC Media Player or MPlayer is needed to view downloaded items.
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