Living With Art 5e Online content by Brian Gore
	Online Learning Center

This excellent site provides visual examples of architecture, sculpture, paintings and photography by some of the world's greatest artists. A brief biography is also provided. Artists are listed alphabetically, according to medium.

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO)
http://www.amn.org/AMICO/
The AMICO digital library will initially be distributed in the academic year 1998/1999 as a university test bed project. Currently, anyone can search the "Thumbnail Catalog" of nearly 20,000 works of art to locate images by keyword, category, or date.

Galleries and Museums

Use the websites below to find out what's happening at galleries and museums around the world, as well as to discover virtual holdings that may be of interest to you.

Image Surfing

Many museums and libraries offer image databases that allow you to access materials in their archives, free of charge or for a price. Some of the best are listed below:

The Thinker Art Image Database:
http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index-2.html
This extensive collection of images from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco offers over 250,000 expandable images of European and Non Western art, along with biographic information on the artists.

Art Images for College Teaching:
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/index.html
Not just for teachers, this site contains an extensive selection of expandable slide examples of both Western and Non-Western Art. Images can be viewed and uploaded free of charge.

World Art Treasures:
http://sgwww.epfl.ch/BERGER/
Masters of European Art from the Berger Foundation are accessible here in a series of virtual exhibitions. The site also includes a number of on-line presentations related to Europe and Asia. The section on China is particularly informative, providing timelines and historic overviews of the major time periods as they relate to the artifacts exhibited.

Spiro Architecture Slide Library:
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html
This slide library allows you to view expandable images of buildings and other historical sites from around the world.

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