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ARTstor

What is it? ARTstor is a database of of art images. Its primary purpose is the creation and provision of digital images and related materials for scholarly and educational use. The Charter Collection includes "artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture."

Content: Images. ARTstor provides over one million images just in the general image collection. Additional collections includes the Art History Survey Collection, the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection, the Huntington Archive of Asian Art, the Illustrated Bartsch, the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, and the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection. Updated quarterly.

Why use it? Digital library that features a wide range of art images and reproductions

Coverage: Varies

Access: Available on networked computers on the MSU Bozeman campus. Access is also available off campus to students, staff, and faculty with a current NetID and password. Unlimited number of simultaneous users. Requires Java to run.

Technical Requirements: The following are recommended for use with ARTstor:

  • Flash Player 6 or above
  • Java (Sun Version 1.3 or above)
  • Cookies enabled
  • Pop-up blocking software must allow pop-ups from www.artstor.org
  • Monitor resolution: 1024x768 recommended
  • Memory: 128MB or higher

Vendor: ARTstor

Subjects: Architecture, Art, Film & Photography

Linked Data Topics:
Architecture
Art
Database
Related Databases:
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Total interactions: 9776

Rank: 38 out of 309 databases

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 9776 out of 2176000 total interactions with all of our databases)

Last updated: 2024-03-18 15:34:01

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