Gallery hopping on the Internet.Art museums have always been a source of inspiration, especially Italian art Italian art, works of art produced in the geographic region that now constitutes the nation of Italy. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. museums. A lack of art museums in your area? You don't have the financial independence to fly around the world at your heart's desire? There's hope. You can still sec many of the world's masterpieces with the help of your local Internet provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider . The Internet is a wonderful tool for accessing fine art images and art museums throughout the world for inspiration. A growing number of American and European museums have produced exciting online exhibits in conjunction with their museum shows. Recently, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, and contains one of the largest permanent museum collections in the Americas. exhibited a comprehensive retrospective of Winslow Homer's work. They also created a companion online exhibit of paintings and watercolors for viewing on their web site. Cezanne and Vermeer On-line In the first major overview of Cezanne's work in sixty years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Museum of Art, established in 1875, chartered in 1876. When the city of Philadelphia planned to erect a building to house the Centennial Exposition of 1876, provision was made to keep the building permanently occupied; the Pennsylvania Museum and School assembled the Cezanne exhibition. In their online exhibit, sponsored by Advanta, you could view a small selection of the collection's 100 paintings, thirty-five watercolors, and thirty-five drawings. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais The Grand Palais ("Grand Palace") is a large glass exhibition hall that was built for the Paris Exhibition of 1900. It is located in the VIIIe arrondissement of Paris, France. offers another beautiful and comprehensive web site of the Cezanne exhibition in Paris. Try not to be discouraged by the slow connect time--it's worth the wait. "The Paintings of Vermeer" web site offers thirty-five quality images to view and download. A nice feature is a page of thumbnail size images of all the paintings that you can view. This saves time downloading each one. The site's simply designed interface, combined with just the right amount of images and informational text, creates an enjoyable web experience. A clickable map Same as imagemap. of Europe and the US displays the cities where Vermeer's paintings can be found. Looking into the Past One of my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. museum sites on the Internet is the University of Michigan Museum of Art The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA, as it is known locally, resides in the Alumni Memorial Hall of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil War, Alumni Memorial Hall . They have created a beautifully designed web site, especially their "Venice Online" exhibit which consists of fine paintings, prints, drawings, and rare books produced in Venice in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries--two of the greatest periods of Venetian art. Artists, teachers, and students will find the "Art Image Browser" database in the "Museum Collection" of the web site fascinating. There you can access a larger sampling of art, architectural, and museum object images than in many other online exhibitions. Building an Art Database The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , which includes the deYoung and the Legion of Honor Legion of Honor: see decorations, civil and military. Museums, now has an online art database of 60,000 works--half of their entire collection. It is one of the few museums on the Internet that gives you access to such a large database of images. It is great to see that they are committed to putting their entire collection online. Even though I'm not crazy about Picasso, the "Picasso and Portraiture" web site is so well put together that I keep going back, liking him more and more. Clean design, great color, small accessible images, and concise text make this site fun to use and an excellent resource for students and anyone wanting to learn more about Picasso. The Future of the New Art World Internet web sites are changing dramatically everyday. As new technologies develop, the Internet becomes more complex and fascinating. Museums will soon incorporate into their web sites the new visual and audio technologies that make content on the web so compelling today. Artists will be able to view a museum's entire collection, listen to audio descriptions of important pieces, and interact with animations. As you can see, some museums are already doing just that. Although nothing will take the place of actually visiting a museum, the pleasure of experiencing a Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (də vĭn`chē, Ital. lāōnär`dō dä vēn`chē), 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, b. near Vinci, a hill village in Tuscany. painting at the Uffizi Gallery is irreplaceable we have a powerful new art world to explore. RELATED ARTICLE: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (www.boston.com/mfa/mfahome.htm) Philadelphia Museum of Art (pma.Iibertynet.org) Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (www.cezanne.colm/eng) "The Paintings of Vermeer" web site (www.ccsf.caItech.edu/~roy/vermeer) University of Michigan Museum of Art (www.umich.edu/~umma) The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (www.thinker.org) "Picasso and Portraiture" web site (www.club-internet.fr/picasso/homepage.html) |
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