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Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art

Smithsonian Digitizes & Lets You Download 40,000 Works of Asian and American Art | Everything open | Scoop.it
Art lovers who visit my hometown of Washington, DC have an almost embarrassing wealth of opportunities to view art collections classical, Baroque, Renaissance, modern, postmodern, and otherwise through the Smithsonian’s network of museums. From the East and West Wings of the National Gallery, to the Hirshhorn, with its wondrous sculpture garden, to the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery—I’ll admit, it can be a little overwhelming, and far too much to take in during a weekend jaunt, especially if you’ve got restless family in tow.
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The Guggenheim Puts Online 1600 Great Works of Modern Art from 575 Artists

The Guggenheim Puts Online 1600 Great Works of Modern Art from 575 Artists | Everything open | Scoop.it


If you were to ask me in my callow years as a young art student to name my favorite painter, I would have answered without a moment’s hesitation: Wassily Kandinsky. His theoretical bent, his mysticism, his seemingly near total creative independence….
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Download 100,000 Free Art Images in High-Resolution from The Getty

Download 100,000 Free Art Images in High-Resolution from The Getty | Everything open | Scoop.it
When I want to get a good look at the city of Los Angeles, I go up to the Getty Center in the Santa Monica Mountains. I can also, of course, get a pretty good look at some art at the museum there.
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Visualising Medical History

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The Composition
Ten UK partner libraries have selected and digitised books and other content for the Medical Heritage Library project. You can access all the digitised content from the Historical Texts portal.

It is important to recognise that these UK contributions represent only a selection of the texts available in special collections from these and other libraries. Many readers will therefore be interested in understanding the differing and highly characteristic selections made by these libraries from their considerable collections.
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Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included!

Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 210,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included! | Everything open | Scoop.it
We all found it impressive when Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum put up 125,000 Dutch works of art online.
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