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Art, Music & Drama: Art

You can check out the text books / CDs on Reserves for 2 hours at a time to use them inside the library.

Web Sites

Art History Resources on the Web
Art history from prehistoric times from around the world.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
"Timeline of Art History - pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the museum's collection".

Perseus Digital Library
This digital library at Tufts University c
overs the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. Their mission is "to make the full record of humanity - linguistic sources, physical artifacts, historical spaces - as intellectually accessible as possible to every human being, regardless of linguistic or cultural background." Also "focuses upon the three most widespread classical languages of the Mediterranean world: Greek, Latin, and Arabic."

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
"World's preeminent and most widely used research center dedicated to collecting, preserving and providing access to primary sources that document the history of the visual arts in America."

Visualizing Cultures
"Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be)."