Video and Image Resources - ARTS - Herzberg

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Artists -- Video Resources

art21
Produces quality documentaries and other material on contemporary artists and their working lives.
theEYE, Series 3: Sculpture, Public Art & Ceramics [Streaming Videos]
Films in this series profile notable, currently producing sculptors and ceramicists, including Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor, Richard Wilson, Grayson Perry, and others.
Treasures of Ancient Egypt [Streaming Videos]
This series of 3 50-minute films explores the art and architecture of Ancient Egypt.
Palettes: Great Artists and their Paintings [Streaming Videos]
14 half hour films on major artists and their most iconic works.
Palettes II: Great Artists, Great Art [Streaming Videos]
11 films from 30 minutes to 1 hour, profiling great art, ranging from the Caves at Lascaux to Andy Warhol.
Palettes III: Great Artists, Great Art [Streaming VIdeos]
Series of 25 half hour videos, each examining an iconic work of art.
The Smart Secrets of Great Paintings [Streaming Videos]
Series of 10 half hour videos that each examines the historical context of a single great painting.
The Adventurers of Modern Art [Streaming Videos]
Series of 6 videos on the history of Western art in the 20th century.
Hidden Lives of Works of Art [Streaming Videos]
This series of five hour long films examines the material lives of centuries old paintings.
Critical Thinkers: Hal Foster [Streaming Video]
Art critic and historian Hal Foster discusses contemporary art in society in this half hour film.

Images of Art Works

ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit online digital image library designed to serve educational and scholarly communities with more than one million images on subjects in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences. ARTstor provides tools and software to search, present, and share digital images both online and offline for research and pedagogical purposes. Note: in order to access from off-campus on mobile devices, you need to have created a personal account within the database.

Olga's Gallery
Includes artist biographies and images of artworks.
The Getty Museum
Open access, digital images from the J. Paul Getty Museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This Open Access from the Met allows you to download over 375,000 high resolution digital images from the museum's collection.
Art Institute of Chicago's Public Domain Collection
Images of these artworks are in the public domain and are available to the public to use and download.
Paris Musées: Les Musées de la Ville de Paris
Digital collaboration among 14 museums in Paris that have made images of over 150,000 works in their collections available in the public domain.

Virtual Museum Tours:

Virtual Tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Google collaborated with the Getty Museum to created this "Google Maps"-style virtual tour of the Getty Museum, which holds some amazing pieces of art.
Virtual Tour of the Vatican Museum
Provides interactive, 360-degree views of some of the most famous artworks in the Vatican, such as the Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms.
Virtual Tour of the Rijksmuseum
Located in Amsterdam, The Rijksmuseum owns art treasures, including several very famous Vermeers.
Virtual Tour of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Interactive virtual tour allows you to view six different rooms in the Korean museum.
Virtual Tour of the Musée d'Orsay
Located in Paris, this museum holds art pieces dating from 1848-1914. It holds some of the world's most famous Impressionist works.