Web resources Digital images
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Artstor |
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ARTstor is a digital library of images, their associated information, and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. The ARTstor Digital Library contains approximately 1,000,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods, including images of architecture, painting, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts, design, archeological and anthropological objects.
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Luna Commons |
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Create, Media Groups, slide shows, dynamic presentations, annotations and web widgets.
Easily link to specific content.
Search and add Flickr content to your Media Groups.
Upload your own content — images, audio, video, etc.
Seamlessly access high resolution details. Register online(you do not need to use your emich account).
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AICT(Art Images for College Teaching) |
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AICT is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.
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Web Gallery of Art |
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The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 11,600 reproductions. Commentaries on pictures, biographies of artists are available.
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Art History on the Web |
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Art History Resources on the Web: In-depth hyperlinked lists divided by period and maintained by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, Virginia
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Artcyclopedia |
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Great art online, from over 8,000 famous painters, sculptors and photographers, at art museum sites & image archives worldwide.
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Mark Harden's Artchive |
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Virtual gallery of classic and contemporary painting, sculpture, as well as art critique, reviews, and links
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Olga's Gallery-Online Art Museum |
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One of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits weekly. Biographies and main works of famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions.
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Digital Imaging Project |
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Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from prehistoric to post-modern. New images from Mexico.
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Copyright
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Educational Fair Use Guidelines |
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Fair use is a legal principle that provides certain limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright holders. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide guidance on the application of fair use principles by educational institutions, educators, scholars, and students who wish to digitize copyrighted visual images under fair use rather than by seeking authorization from the copyright owners for non-commercial educational purposes.
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Art Museums
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Flint Institute of Arts |
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The museum includes a collection of decorative arts, tapestries, paperweights and glass as well as paintings and sculpture.
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Cranbrook Art Museum |
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Part of the Cranbrook Educational Community, the Cranbrook Art Museum has rotating permanent collections, temporary exhibitions as well as tours of the Saarinen house.
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Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park |
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Located in Grand Rapids, it features the integrated experience of great gardens and art. With over 160 works in the permanent sculpture collection, exhibitions are held in both indoor galleries and the outdoor sculpture park.
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Muskegon Museum of Art |
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Located near in western Michigan, this museum has both a permanent collection and features traveling exhibits and exhibits by local collectors.
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University of Michigan Museum of Art |
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Located on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, this museum houses a permanent collection and innovative temporary exhibits. The significantly expanded museum opens in spring 2009.
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Kresge Art Museum |
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Located on the Michigan State University campus, it houses MSU's collection of over 7,000 works or art and houses temporary exhibitions as well.
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The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum |
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Located in Wisconsin, it is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. The site features information on their collection as well as workshops.
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Luna Commons |
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Create, Media Groups, slide shows, dynamic presentations, annotations and web widgets.
Easily link to specific content.
Search and add Flickr content to your Media Groups.
Upload your own content — images, audio, video, etc.
Seamlessly access high resolution details. Register online (does not have to be emich account).
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Toledo Museum of Art |
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The Toledo Museum of Art contains more than 30,000 works of art. Site has samples of collections and details about the museum.
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Detroit Institute of Arts |
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The fifth-largest fine arts museum in the United States with holdings of over 60,000 works. More than one hundred galleries.
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LACMA(Los Angeles County Museum of Art) |
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Gateway to thousands of artworks from the art collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA.
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The Art Institute of Chicago |
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Combination of accredited school and art museum. Museum houses more than 300000 works of art and includes among its treasures, American Gothic by Grant Wood and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks.
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The British Museum |
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The British Museum has outstanding collections that cover world cultures from Prehistory to the present day. The British Museum holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural landmarks, the collection is one of the finest in existence, spanning two million years of human history
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The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Collection of more than 30,000 works of art ranges over 5,000 years, from ancient Egypt to the present, and includes masterpieces from Europe, Asia and Africa.
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The Louvre |
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The official site of the Louvre Museum (Paris, France) : Collection & Departments, Exhibitions, Guided Tours, Virtual Tours, Calendar, History of the Louvre
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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Features information on upcoming museum events, fine art exhibits, special exhibitions, the Met collection and art galleries online.
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The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
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The National Gallery of Art, Washington houses one of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture and more.
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EMU database subscriptions
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Art Databases |
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Be sure to check ARTstor, ArtIndex, Grove Art Online, and Bibliography of History of Art.
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