Posts Tagged ‘art history’
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur consists of around 2 million images of art and architecture located in Germany and throughout Europe. While Bildindex is a German-language site, it is navigable for the English speaker through interactive features that provide information about the current location and history of the image object. The product of over 30 years of collection development, Bildindex hosts a wide range of image types (drawings, photographs, paintings, prints, plans) as well as special collections and continues to grow by sponsoring further digitization projects.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg, Bildindex, drawings, Europe, European architecture, German architecture, Germany, Italian architecture, manuscripts, modernism, painting, photographs, plans, Renaissance, search tool
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 17, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) is a comprehensive collection of original historical materials documenting German history in ten historic periods ranging from the early modern period to the present. Each section includes an introduction to key historical developments as well as a selection of primary source documents (in German and English), images and relevant maps. All of the materials can be accessed through keyword and author searches. Advanced options also allow searches to be limited and refined.
Tags: 20th-century Germany, architectural history, architecture, art history, documents, early modern Germany, German history, German History in Documents and Images, GHDI, images, maps, modern Germany, photography, translated documents
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 9, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography, words | No Comments »
On November 7th, the Ashmolean will reopen after a £61 million redevelopment. Adding 39 new galleries, this renovation focuses on integrating new ways of seeing the past into both the fabric of the building and the experience it enfolds. Architect Rick Mather worked with the museum to create a space that facilitated not only the enjoyment of objects on display but also new and broader understandings of their historical meaning.
For more information read this Gaurdian article.
Tags: archaeology, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, Ashmolean Museum, contemporary architecture, renovation, Rick Mather, The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 6, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art | No Comments »
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, Bridgeman Art Library is a comprehensive source for fine art, architectural and historical images. Bridgeman’s search tools allow the user to browse the collection thematically (architecture, land and sea, emotions and ideas, etc.) and by image type (black and white photograph, object, illustration, etc.), artist, and participating collections.
Tags: architectural history, art, art history, Bridgeman Art Library, cultural history, culture, database, image collections, images, interior design, landscape architecture, photographs, sculpture, urban design, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on November 4, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
The California Museum of Photography explores photographic media through exhibition, collection, publication, and the web to examine the history of photography and showcase current practice in photography and related media. The museum’s online search tool allows the browser to search through nearly 55,000 records including images of industry, science and nature, portraits, photographic equipment, and much more.
Tags: art, art history, California Museum of Photography, database, photographs, photography, University of California Riverside
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 23, 2009 in architecture, art, images, photography | No Comments »
Harvard University Libraries have created VIA (Visual Information Access), a growing online catalog uniting collections from various Harvard libraries and archives including the GSD, Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Arnold Arboretum and Horticulture Library, and more. Documenting material culture, and social history, VIA is an excellent research tool, containing descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. New material is added daily.
Tags: ancient, archaeology, architectural history, architecture, archive, art history, arts, books, botany, campus architecture, cultural history, database, decorative arts, film, garden, gender studies, Harvard, illustrations, images, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, manuscripts, modern, neigborhood, photography, planning, postcards, science, textiles, theaters, transportation, urbanism, VIA, visual resource collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 16, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The Yale University Art Gallery’s eCatalogue allows internet users to search its collection of over 185,000 objects. Organized into ten curatorial areas, these objects range from African ritual figures and masks to American ceramics, Asian lacquerwar, and modern and contemporary sculpture and painting. Yale’s eCatalogue is an excellent resource for material culture incorporating traditional gallery arts as well as objects of industrial culture.
Tags: architecture, art history, cultural history, cultural objects, database, decorative arts, images, industrial design, interior design, search tools, Yale University Art Gallery eCatalogue
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 15, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
Over 3,000 new images of architecture, applied design, and American popular culture are available in ARTstor. Collections shared by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design Slide Library and Bryn Mawr College include images of site plans for ancient and medieval architectural and archeological sites along with images of American pop culture and design. Photographs of American architecture taken by Dov Friedman have also been added.
Tags: American architecture, ancient architecture, applied art, architectural history, architecture, art, art history, ARTstor, cultural history, Dov Friedman, images, medieval architecture, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, photographs, photography, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 13, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
This interactive floorplan, indicates the uses of each available space within the Vatican complex. The floorplan employs a system of letters and numbers to identify various sculptural and artistic elements, and locate elements of specific architectural significance including grottoes, the facade, the piazza, etc. In addition, each letter and number links to a secondary page that includes visual and textual information about the site indicated.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, art, art history, interactive plan, religion, religious history, sculpture, St. Peter's Basilica
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 11, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
Sponsered by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project that explores cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era to the Seventeenth Century. Silk Road Seattle provides historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on the traditional culture of Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
Tags: architecture, art, art history, Central Asia, cultural history, industrial design, maps, photography, resources, silk road, Silk Road Seattle, trade, University of Washington, urban history, virtual exhibit, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Web resources
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 10, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
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