Posted in Image Collections, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture on Feb 7th, 2011
Art Project by Google offers some new methods for viewing and experiencing museum collections online, as well as a single portal to access multiple collections from one location. While certainly not comprehensive in scope, it allows users to access over 1,000 images from seventeen major art museums and collections including the Met, Uffizi, Hermitage and the Tate. For those of […]
Posted in Cartography, Image Collections, Printmaking on Oct 14th, 2010
The University of Oregon Department of Architecture has created two valuable web resources for examining the architecture and topography of 18th century Rome. The Interactive Nolli Map Website, created by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner, presents a detailed, interactive map of Giambattista Nolli’s original 1748 plan of Rome. Using a Flash-based interface, users can zoom, […]
Posted in Photography, Printmaking on Jun 9th, 2010
The Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology has developed the Graphics Atlas, a new online resource that explores the history of printing technologies through text and images. The Atlas presents a virtual study collection that showcases printing processes from the early woodcut to the modern digital print. Each process is illustrated by […]
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