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Images by Subscription Medieval Museums Renaissance - Baroque

Credo Reference Adds National Gallery Images

Credo Reference, the award winning online reference library, now includes National Gallery London images in the Credo General Reference Collection. Credo Reference is available through the University of Chicago library by clicking here.

Credo has licensed high resolution images of the paintings in the National Gallery. Students and faculty can now easily find quality images from this museum to aid their research. This page includes a browsable list of the National Gallery images available through Credo.

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News VRC

Now Serving Intelligentsia!

We are now providing Intelligentsia coffee in the VRC! Stop by and have a cup. We brew a fresh batch every morning around 9am, and are happy to brew more in the afternoons by request.

As always, the suggested donation is: 25 cents per cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate and 25 cents per cookie or treat.

Help us be green – please bring your own mug!

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Design Modern - Contemporary Moving Images

Independent Lens: Between the Folds

A new film airing on PBS’ Independent Lens called Between the Folds chronicles the lives of ten modern paper folders. As the PBS website describes: “Through origami, these offbeat and provocative minds are reshaping ideas of creativity and revealing the relationship between art and science.” On this site, you can also test your origami knowledge by matching folding patterns with finished products, or even printing out patterns to try yourself. Explore the site further to learn about the artists and discover facts about the history of origami.

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Museums

Two New Art Historical Databases Available from the Frick Collection

The Frick Collection has recently released two databases that focus on provenance of artworks. The Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America helps researchers locate primary source material about American collectors, dealers, agents and advisors, and the repositories that hold those records. The Archives include collectors who purchased American art, but also antiquities and non-Western art. The Montias Database of 17th Century Dutch Art Inventories provides detailed information on ownership of works of art during the Dutch Golden Age. It was compiled by late Yale University Professor John Michael Montias, and contains information from 1,280 inventories of goods (paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture, etc.) owned by people living in 17th century Amsterdam.

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VRC

Access the VRC From Your Mobile Device

The Visual Resources Center’s website, All Things Visual, is now mobile-friendly! Try viewing our site from an iPhone or iPod Touch and you’ll find it’s easy to read and navigate.

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Innovative Technology Moving Images

Find MovieClips Online

Looking for high-quality movie clips online? Try MovieClips, a free website which offers more than 12,000 scenes searchable by actor, title, genre, occasion, action, mood, character, theme, setting, prop, and even dialogue. You can save clips as favorites, add and answer trivia questions related to movie scenes, embed clips on your own website, and share clips with friends via Facebook, Twitter, and more. MovieClips is only available in the US and Canada, and right now clips are available from six major Hollywood studios: 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.

Currently in beta, MovieClips also welcomes feedback, including suggestions for movies that you’d like to see added to the collection.

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Design Innovative Technology Presentation

Is the Future of Computer Displays Transparent?

Wired.com has lots of updates from CES 2010, the world’s largest consumer electronics convention. CES 2010 took place January 7-10 in Las Vegas. This year’s highlights included a transparent OLED display prototype from Samsung, shown in a video from the conference.

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Images on the Web Islamic

Harvard’s Islamic Heritage Project Now Online

“Through a new collaboration among Islamic-studies scholars, librarians, and curators, Harvard University has cataloged, conserved, and digitized Islamic manuscripts, maps, and published texts from its renowned library and museum collections. The result is a new online collection comprising more than 145,000 digital pages available to Internet users everywhere.”

The collaboration, known as the Islamic Heritage Project, includes materials that date from the 13th to the 20th centuries CE and include various regions, languages, and subjects. More informaton about the scope and content of the project is available here.

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VRC

Happy (Turquoise) New Year!

Is the beginning of the quarter making you feel stressed? You might consider a new wall color for the new year. Pantone revealed in a recent press release that turquoise (Pantone 15-5519) is the color of the year for 2010. The reason? According to Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, turquoise “is believed to be a protective talisman, a color of deep compassion and healing, and a color of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky. Through years of color word-association studies, we also find that Turquoise represents an escape to many – taking them to a tropical paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.”

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VRC

Jenny Holzer Interviewed in the NYT Magazine

An interview with contemporary artist Jenny Holzer in today’s New York Times Magazine, accompanied by photographs of her home, reveals: her supposed Twitter page is not her own, her favorite chore is laundry (“because I succeed at it”), she keeps horses as an inherited hobby even though she doesn’t ride (“they are fuzzy and optimistic”), and she overpacks when traveling.

On that note, happy and safe travels to you during this holiday season.

Above photograph by Flickr user Lord Jim. Work: “Inflamatory Essays” by Jenny Holzer, installed in Los Angeles, Spring 2008, as part of “Women in the City.”