http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc Communiqués from the Visual Resources Center, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:55:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please note: to view these PowerPoint illustrations at a larger size, click on the images. To create a simple Art History style PowerPoint 2008 theme, first open a new presentation. The Formatting Palette will appear on the right side; if it does not, click on the "Toolbox" icon from the menu ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/11/06/creating-a-slide-theme-in-powerpoint-2008/ The behold search tool provides access to over one million Flickr-hosted images that are available free of charge. You may specify image results that can be modified and/or used for commercial purposes. For more information and Terms of Use, click here. http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/11/02/behold-search-free-flickr-images-easily/ One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside of China will be digitized and made freely available to scholars worldwide as part of a six-year cooperative project between Harvard College Library (HCL) and the National Library of China (NLC)... ...The first phase, beginning in January 2010, will digitize ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/10/15/harvard-and-national-library-of-china-to-digitize-rare-books/ Art History faculty can checkout a wireless SlimBlade™ Presenter Media Mouse with a Mac laptop. For instructions on how to use the mouse, please click here. A flash tutorial is also available. http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/09/30/slimblade%e2%84%a2-presenter-media-mouse-available-for-checkout/ 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 ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/09/30/artstor-launches-moma-painting-and-sculpture-collection/ Please consider adding the new Art History Department blog, The Voice of CWAC, to your RSS subscriptions. News and announcements of interest to the Cochrane-Woods Art Center community will be posted regularly. http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/09/25/the-voice-of-cwac/ The Staffordshire Hoard, discovered in July 2009, is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found. Leslie Webster, former Keeper of Prehistory and Europe at the British Museum describes this discovery: ...this is going to alter our perceptions of Anglo-Saxon England in the seventh and early eighth century as radically, if ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/09/25/images-of-the-staffordshire-hoard-on-flickr/ The Database of Virtual Art seeks to document and ultimately preserve the evolving field of digital installation art. The database is intended for both researchers and artists, and digital media artists are encouraged to post content themselves. The web-based resource is free and allows browsing by artist name as well ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/09/24/database-of-virtual-art/ The first-ever English version of the Musée du Louvre Collections Database, Atlas, is now available online. Atlas allows the direct online consultation of 35,000 works of art exhibited in the Louvre. Online visitors can access the basic information displayed on labels accompanying works in the museum, together with authoritative commentary and ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/08/21/english-version-of-louvre-collections-database/ TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to ... http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/vrc/2009/08/18/tineye-reverse-image-search/