Saturday, November 18, 2006

ArtStor adds European Art and Architecture

New Addition to the ARTstor Digital Library: European art and architecture from Art Resource, Scala Archives

ARTstor recently announced a collaboration with Art Resource and Scala Archives (Florence, Italy). Through this collaboration, ARTstor will make available approximately 12,000 high quality images of European art and architecture, with a special focus on the archaeology, art and architecture of Italy and on the collections of the major museums of Italy and other European countries.

The first fruits of this collaboration are now available to ARTstor users. They include more than 1,100 high quality images of major works of Italian and other European art.

To convey some sense of the range and depth of this expanding collection, there are already

  • more than 60 new images of or relating to works by Botticelli
  • more than 50 new images of or relating to works by Caravaggio
  • more than 30 new images of or relating to works by Correggio
  • more than 40 new images of or relating to works by Mantegna
  • more than 80 new images of or relating to works by Raphael
  • more than 275 new images of works from the Uffizi Gallery
  • more than 25 new images of works from the Louvre

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