ARTstor: Celebrating five years and one million images

This July ARTstor celebrates five years of serving the educational and arts communities. Since the Digital Library’s launch in 2004 with 300,000 images ARTstor collections have grown to include more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. Today ARTstor enables a wide range of users—curators, scholars, educators, librarians, and students—to teach and study with breathtaking cultural objects, seminal architectural works, as well as a broad range of historical, political, social, economic, and cultural documentation from prehistory to the present in a single online workspace. To this end we continue to develop new collaborative projects with content contributors, and explore and develop technologies that will aid in the discovery, presenting, and sharing of the Digital Library content across our community of users.

To read more about ARTstor’s first five years, please see our most recent newsletter, Volume 12.

Now available in ARTstor: Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations from the Warburg Institute

Approximately 1,200 images of Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations from the Warburg Institute are now available in the ARTstor Digital Library. This first release includes images of European book illustrations from the 16th through 18th centuries, selected from the rare book collection housed at the Warburg Institute Library.

The Warburg Institute was founded in 1921 and supports research in all aspects of western civilization, including art, architecture, language, literature, religion, science, philosophy, social customs, and political institutions. The Institute maintains a library of over 350,000 volumes, a photographic collection of over 300,000 images, and an archive.

To view The Warburg Institute collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “The Warburg Institute”; or enter the Keyword Search: “warburg institute library”.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Warburg Institute collection page.

Related collections:

• The Illustrated Bartsch
• Vesalius Anatomical Illustrations (Northwestern University)

Bryn Mawr College Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites Collection now in ARTstor

More than 2,700 images of archaeological sites and architectural monuments from Bryn Mawr College are now available in the Digital Library. This first release for the Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) collection includes site plans of architectural monuments and archaeological sites in Europe and the Ancient Near East, particularly sites located in modern-day Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.

To view the Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College)”; or enter the Keyword Search: plans brynmawr.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Plans of Ancient and Medieval Buildings and Archaeological Sites (Bryn Mawr College) collection page.

Related collections:

• Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture (Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
• Classical Antiquity Lantern Slide Collection (Bryn Mawr College)
• Mellink Archive (Bryn Mawr College)
• Giza Archaeological Expedition Archive (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• The Yale University Art Gallery and the Peabody Museum of Natural History (Yale University)
• Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Canyonlights World Art Image Bank)

Collection agreement: Images from the National Gallery of Art

ARTstor is collaborating with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, to share more than 600 images of European paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955) made an initial gift of nearly 400 primarily Italian paintings and sculptures to the National Gallery of Art before the museum opened in 1941. The Kress Collection at the National Gallery of Art today consists of works of European art from the 13th through the 18th centuries, including paintings, sculptures, medals, prints, drawings, and decorative arts, as well as an important collection of historical picture frames.

Artists represented in the National Gallery of Art collection in ARTstor will include: Fra Angelico, Giovanni Bellini, François Boucher, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Agnolo Bronzino, Canaletto, Jean Siméon Chardin, Petrus Christus, François Clouet, Piero di Cosimo, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jacques-Louis David, Donatello, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Albrecht Dürer, Anthony van Dyck, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giorgione, Giotto, Francisco de Goya, El Greco, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Lorenzo Lotto, Andrea Mantegna, Simone Martini, Hans Memling, Nicolas Poussin, Pontormo, Raphael, Peter Paul Rubens, Luca Signorelli, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jacopo Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, Antoine Watteau, and many others.

The National Gallery of Art is one of the world’s pre-eminent museums. The permanent collection currently includes approximately 114,000 works, which trace the development of Western art from the medieval period to the present.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the National Gallery of Art collection page.

ARTstor and Colección Patricia Phelps De Cisneros announce partnership

ARTstor and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) have announced a collaboration through which the CPPC will share hundreds of images of colonial, modern, and contemporary Latin American art through the ARTstor Digital Library. The partnership will broaden educational and scholarly access to these important works, which include examples by such major artists as Helio Oiticica, Tomás Maldonado, Lygia Pape, and Joaquín Torres-Garcia. These images augment ARTstor’s representation of Latin America, a rapidly growing area of research and teaching in dozens of disciplines, including the visual arts, world history, politics, and economics.

Announcing the collaboration, Neil Rudenstine, chairman of the ARTstor Board of Trustees, said, “The Colección Patricia Phelps Cisneros is a remarkable creation, dedicated to a greater worldwide understanding of the treasure of Latin American art. Enabling ARTstor to include these works in its Digital Library is not only a generous act in itself, but one that will be invaluable to the thousands of students, faculty, and others who use ARTstor for educational purposes in many parts of the world.”

The CPPC is the core visual-arts program of the Fundación Cisneros, a private philanthropic organization committed to improving education in Latin America and increasing global awareness of the breadth of Latin America’s contributions to world culture. Founded by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and Gustavo A. Cisneros, in association with the Cisneros Group of Companies, the Fundación Cisneros builds innovative programs and partnerships with international reach. The CPPC was established to advance scholarship on Latin American art, promote excellence in visual-arts education, and encourage a high level of expertise among Latin American art professionals. It achieves these goals through exhibitions, publications, scholarly research, online access, grants, and multifaceted education programs.

The nonprofit ARTstor Digital Library comprises one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, along with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes. The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools.

For additional information about the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, contact Lucy O’Brien, Jeanne Collins & Associates, LLC, New York City, 646-486-7050 or info@jcollinsassociates.com.

For additional information about ARTstor, contact User Services, 212-500-2400, or userservices@artstor.org