All Things Visual

ARTstor and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) have just launched more than 1,400 images of works from the MoMA’s permanent collection in the Digital Library. The images have been selected from the museum’s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. The works in the Department of Painting and Sculpture represent a comprehensive [...]

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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, we investigated some of the Irish artists in our collection. Images of works by these artists are available through ARTstor, and artist descriptions are borrowed from Oxford Art Online. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
“Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect, active in France. In 1898 she entered the Slade School [...]

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Valentine’s Day is almost here. Find inspiration in some works of art depicting love and devotion!
One way to search for these works in ARTstor: subject headings. Here is a short list of the possibilities. Some of our favorite artists and titles from each search are included as well.
Heart in art: Fluttering Hearts, Cover of Cahiers [...]

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Staff members of the VRC use subject headings from different thesauri to describe the collection’s images. Subject headings can be combined to create complex and precise searches, gathering together all available resources on a particular topic. Some of the thesauri we use? The Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names [...]

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Looking for digital images for your papers, presentations or art history tests? ARTstor contains nearly one million images gathered from museums, universities, libraries, and the U of C’s Visual Resources Collection.
 
ARTstor for Undergrads

Where: Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157
When: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 2:00 – 2:30pm
Description: In this brief session, you’ll learn ARTstor essentials: how to [...]

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You can now access the University of Chicago Department of Art History Image Collection in ARTstor. Here’s how:
On campus

Go to http://www.artstor.org
Click “GO” in the upper right hand corner.
At the bottom center of the page, click “University of Chicago, Visual Resources Collection” under Institutional Collections.

Off campus

Go to http://www.artstor.org
Click “GO” in the upper right hand corner.
Click “Login”in [...]

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You can share individual ARTstor images, image groups, and presentations in Chalk. It is as simple as copying and pasting a link.
Within the next few weeks, the majority of the VRC collection will be available in ARTstor. You’ll be able to combine ARTstor and VRC images in one group and share them with your students [...]

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Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain Collection
ARTstor is collaborating with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi of Great Britain [CVMA (GB)] and the National Monuments Record, the public archive at English Heritage, to distribute approximately 18,000 images of medieval stained glass windows from Great Britain in the Digital Library.
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Renaissance and Baroque architecture and sculpture [...]

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Click on the image to learn how to download images from ARTstor and put them in PowerPoint for a classroom presentation.

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From ARTstor:

 
We are pleased to announce that the Jessica E. Smith and Kevin R. Brine Charitable Trust has given ARTstor a grant to build a themed collection on the story of Judith and Holofernes. This collection will be part of a larger project – The Judith Project – commissioned by the donor to enhance scholarship [...]

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