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  Art and Art History: Find Sources
  Library resources for learning about artists, techniques, movements and art history.
  Great sources for art and artists:
  Find high-quality images from the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars and artists. Re-use images in class projects, PowerPoint presentations, etc. All images are cleared for educational, scholarly and non-commercial use.
  The Art Story - Understanding modern art
  The Art Story aims to sort through all the noise of the art world and shed light on modern and contemporary art. Also, see information about current art exhibitions in New York.
  Discover how to analyze the formal aspects of a work of art by learning about the elements of art and principles of design that are used by artists working in various media.
  Virtually 'walk' around museums all around the world. Google Art Project is an online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative's partner museums.
  The platform enables users to virtually tour partner museums' galleries, explore physical and contextual information about artworks, and compile their own virtual collection. The "walk-through" feature of the project uses Google's Street View technology.
  This site is intended primarily to be an introduction to the Renaissance in Italy for students and lovers of art and history alike. Highlighted here are many of the major works of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including information and analysis of these great works of art and architecture.
  Metropolitan Museum of Art - Heilbrunn Timelines
  The Timeline of Art History presents the Met's collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool. The Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is funded by the Heilbrunn Foundation, New Tamarind Foundation, and Zodiac Fund. Authored by the Met's experts—predominantly made up of curators but also of conservators, scientists, and educators.
  The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of Western (European) fine arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism periods (1000-1900), currently containing over 35.100 reproductions. Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalog, free postcard and mobile services are provided.
  Artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, catalogue, free postcard and mobile services are provided.
  Find videos on art, artists, and art history on Kanopy, the library's online film collection.
  To access Kanopy off-campus, enter your SCCC login and password when prompted.
  Last Updated: Aug 24, 2020 12:40 PM
  URL: https://libguides.sunysccc.edu/arthistory
  Tags: architecture, art, art history, artists, cartooning, design, drawing, graphics, painting, printmaking, sculpture, studentguide