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November 20, 2006
Art Museum Image Gallery Grows by More Than 62,000
Images
Arrangement with The Art Archive Brings New Content from Over 1,800 Top
Sources
The H.W. Wilson Company has just announced the addition
of some 62,000 images to its acclaimed
Art Museum Image Gallery
database, a popular art image reference source on the WilsonWeb database
service. Drawn from over 1,800 distinguished sources worldwide, the new
images include material from many of the most respected museums of Europe,
Africa, South America, and Asia: Musée du Louvre, Paris; Museum der Stadt,
Vienna; Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Musée du Château de
Versailles; Museo del Prado, Madrid; National Anthropological Museum,
Mexico; British Museum; Archaeological Museum, Istanbul; Archaeological
Museum, Lima; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; Bardo Museum, Tunis; and
others. Full bibliographic records accompany every image, and all images
are rights-cleared for educational use.
Acquired through an arrangement with The Art Archive of
the Picture Desk, Inc. (a leading art, civilization and history image
library), the new images build on Art Museum Image Gallery's
coverage of ancient civilizations, American and European history, Medieval
history, world religions, and icons from the history of art and
architecture. The new content brings the total number of images on Art
Museum Image Gallery to more than 155,000, spanning works from 3000 BC
to the 20th century.
Hailed by Library Journal as "essential," Art Museum
Image Gallery offers invaluable support for curricula in art history,
studio art, and design, as well as cultural studies, area studies,
archaeology, classics, history, religion, literature and related subject
areas. Teachers can use high-resolution images in class lectures,
assignments, academic presentations, and password-protected course
websites. Students can use Art Museum Image Gallery works in papers
and classroom assignments. Museums can provide patron access to the Art
Museum Image Gallery from computer kiosks, and use images for public
lectures or scholarly presentations.
Coverage includes both fine and decorative
art--painting, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, textiles,
costumes, jewelry, ceramics, furniture, glass, books and manuscripts,
archaeological finds, and beyond--from the cultures of Africa, Asia,
Europe, and the Americas (including Native American and MesoAmerican
peoples).
A full list of the new museums represented on Art
Museum Image Gallery is
available.
Free 30-day trial subscriptions are available for librarians and members
of the working press.
For more information, see Art
Museum Image Gallery.
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