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National Gallery, London

The National Gallery in London was founded in 1824.  Today it contains over 20,000 paintings
created between 1200 and 1900 including works by Leonardo daVinci, Rembrandt,
and Van Gogh.  Search the collection from
their home page to discover digital images and information about individual
works owned by the museum.  Images from
their image collection are downloadable. 
The Web site also contains image and audio tours of the museum.  This is an excellent tool for enhancing
knowledge in Western art.



 

New York Public Library Digital GalleryOver 550,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and more.

WestCat open access WestCat is WMU's online library catalog. It can be used to identify books (including online books), government documents, journals, videos, sound recordings, slides and other items that the University Libraries has in its collections. WestCat can be searched by title, author, subject heading, keyword, call number, and more.

Librarian's Comment:
Try using the following general subject headings:

Art American
Art Ancient
Art Baroque
Art Medieval
Art Modern
Architecture Ancient
Architecture Baroque
Architecture Medieval
Architecture Modern
Artist name (or name of movement)
Art China
Art Japan
Art Mexico
Art Peru

For more help in subject searching consult a reference librarian or the Visual Resources Librarian in the Visual Resources Library, Sangren 2213.

WorldCat restricted Comprehensive catalog of books and other materials in libraries around the world. Contains millions of records in hundreds of languages. Nonbook materials include (among other publication formats) the titles of journals and magazines, manuscripts, maps, electronic resources, websites, computer programs, musical scores, films, slides, sound recordings, conference proceedings, and videotapes. Items located through WorldCat must be requested through Interlibrary Loan unless they are also listed in the WMU libraries catalog, WestCat.

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