ART: 17TH CENTURY: ONLINE MUSEUM: Web Gallery of Art - More

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ART:  17TH CENTURY:  ONLINE MUSEUM: 
Web Gallery of Art - More


Web Gallery of Art, image collection,
virtual museum, searchable database
of European fine arts (1100-1850)
http://www.wga.hu/index.html


The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and
searchable database of European painting and
sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries. It was
started in 1996 as a topical site of the Renaissance
art, originated in the Italian city-states of the 14th
century and spread to other countries in the 15th
and 16th centuries. Intending to present
Renaissance art as comprehensively as possible,
the scope of the collection was later extended to
show its Medieval roots as well as its evolution
to Baroque and Rococo via Mannerism. More
recently the periods of Neoclassicism and
Romanticism were also included.

The collection has some of the characteristics
of a virtual museum. The experience of the visitors
is enhanced by guided tours helping to understand
the artistic and historical relationship between
different works and artists, by period music of
choice in the background and a free postcard
service. At the same time the collection serves
the visitors' need for a site where various information
on art, artists and history can be found together
with corresponding pictorial illustrations. Although
not a conventional one, the collection is a searchable
database supplemented by a glossary containing
articles on art terms, relevant historical events,
personages, cities, museums and churches.

The Web Gallery of Art is intended to be a free
resource of art history primarily for students and
teachers. It is a private initiative not related to any
museums or art institutions, and not supported
financially by any state or corporate sponsors.
However, we do our utmost, using authentic literature
and advice from professionals, to ensure the quality
and authenticity of the content.

We are convinced that such a collection of digital
reproductions, containing a balanced mixture of
interlinked visual and textual information, can serve
multiple purposes. On one hand it can simply be a
source of artistic enjoyment; a convenient alternative
to visiting a distant museum, or an incentive to do
just that. On the other hand, it can serve as a tool for
public education both in schools and at home.

You can conduct your visit a number of different ways,
namely by

browsing the collection from the alphabetic Artist
Index giving basic information on artists,

browsing from sorted Lists of Artists which visitors
can create by setting conditions for nationality,
stylistic period and time-line,

using the Dual-Window Mode which allows to run
simultaneously two independent copies of two
collection for more effective browsing and comparison,

using the Quick Search boxes at the bottom of the
screen, or the full-featured Search Engine to find
individual or selected groups of pictures, or

selecting a tour from the Guided Tours.

To get a quick glimpse of the method of presentation
used in the Gallery, you can view 10 pictures
selected at random from the entire collection, or
another 10 pictures selected by using a random
word as search criterion. By following the links
you can get practical information on the technical,
legal and other aspects of visiting this site, and a
summary of What's new in the Gallery. You can c
ontact other visitors through the  (discussion board).


The various sections of the database provide
information supplementary to those given in the
picture commentaries, guided tours, and biographies.

The Fine Arts Museums and the Churches sections
introduce the major museums and some of the great
churches owning the original artworks the reproductions
of which are presented in the Gallery.

The Glossary section contains, in fact, five
independent glossaries focusing respectively on
art terms and historic events, art centres of the
Italian Renaissance, famous families of the Italian
Renaissance, illustrious people related to the
Renaissance, and popes in the 12th-18th centuries.

The Statistics section presents some statistical
data on the collection of the Gallery, the breakdown
of the images by form, time-frame, school, and
subjects. In addition, the database contains all
data of the exhibited reproductions in the Gallery
in MS Excel, dBase IV, and delimited text formats.
You can download them for studying or searching
off-line.

Fine Arts Museums
Churches
Glossary
Statistics
Data download



Also see:

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Costume History: 17th Century
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/barnard/theater/kirkland/3136/17th%20Century%20Gallery/

Tiny URL = http://tinyurl.com/g7oq4



WebMuseum: La Renaissance
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/renaissance/



Northern Renaissance ArtWeb
http://www.msu.edu/~cloudsar/nrweb.htm



Italian Renaissance Art
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/italren/renart/



Art in Renaissance England
http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/artsubj.html



From the Linda Bee Art Collection of Resources
From the Linda Bee Medieval Collection of Resources
From the Linda Bee Renaissance Collection of Resources
From the Linda Bee Museum Collection of Resources
From the Linda Bee Reference Collection of Resources

Linda Bee
Temple Terrace, FL

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By the 16th century, people were collecting and later using
art for interior decorating.  And by the end of the 17th century,
there was a real flamboyance with the art and its presentation.
- Joaneath Spicer