Category: Online Museums
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Project Gutenberg eBooks, Masters of Water-colour Painting
It’s nice to start the new year by looking forward, but it can be just as instructive to look back; and there are some great resources that make looking back easier and more fruitful than ever. Project Gutenberg is a great idea. Not just in the sense of “great” as “terrific”, but in the sense…
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MUVA
MUVA (Museo Virtual de Artes – El Pais) is a virtual art museum for contemporary art from Uruguay. It’s been on the web for a number of years. I’m not sure exactly when it debuted, but it predates the virtual spaces in virtual worlds like Second Life by a good bit. The museum is an…
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Rembrandt vs Caravaggio
2006 marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth, so you’re likely to hear a lot about him this year, from me and others. As part of Holland’s celebration of Rembrandt’s 400th, two of the major museums in Amsterdam, the Rijksmusem and the Van Gogh Museum are having a fascinating exhibit (at the latter space) celebrating…
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Art Renewal Center
I decided my first post for this weblog would be ARC. This site is just amazing. The heart of it is an enormous virtual museum of realist and representational art filled with high-resolution images of thousands of paintings (as well as some drawings). Browse through the Museum (online galleries), which you can sort by artist’s…