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Category: Online Museums

  • The Athenaeum

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    The Athenaeum is essentially a virtual museum, in some ways similar to the Art Renewal Center (my post here) or the Web Gallery of Art (my post here), but with its own focus and strengths. As of this writing, The Athenaeum lists their online collection of art images at 43,339 (with 14 added in the…

  • Vincent van Gogh Gallery

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    Tough perhaps not definitive in terms of image quality or resolution, the Vincent van Gogh Gallery is nonetheless a terrific resource on the iconic Dutch artist, notable for the breadth of the material it presents. As a labor of love for 14 years, Canadian David Brooks has attempted to collect an online catalog raisonné of…

  • Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

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    The website of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is large and sprawling and full of amazing stuff, much like the museum itself. Also like the physical museum, wandering around and exploring is often rewarded with unexpected delights and treasures. One of the treasures on the Met’s website is the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.…

  • ArtMagick

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    ArtMagick one of those delightful art sites dedicated to a few related genres of painting; in this case some of the more interesting movements in late 19th and early 20th Century art. According to their own description: “ArtMagick is a virtual gallery dedicated to the continual quest of seeking out obscure 19th century artists and…

  • Dahesh Museum of Art

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    One of the problems confronting small museums, that are most often originally based on the art collection of an individual at their inception, is the question acquiring and maintaining a physical space in which to display the works. Maintaining a physical space is often more difficult for small museums than large ones. Even though large…

  • Van Gogh’s Letters

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    Anyone who has read Dear Theo, the book of Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother, which, in essence, is a kind of autobiography, knows that the popularized image of the artist as an uncouth, irrational, semi-literate wild man, stabbing at the canvas in frantic desperation like a crazed orangutan, couldn’t be further from the…