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ART stor
Large and growing database of digital images in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Includes Art History Survey collection, Carnegie Arts of the United States, the Digital Bartsch, MoMA's Digital Design Collection and others.
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  British Museum, Compass search results: "Indian Painting"
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  British Museum, Compass search results: "Indian Sculpture "
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  Columbia Image Bank
Over 27,000 high-quality digital images with a special emphasis on those required for teaching the history of Western Art. Included are images from many of the world’s major collections including the Louvre, Musée D’Orsay, Uffizi Palace, and the Prado as well as many important archaeological sites including Ephesus, Pergamum and Mycenae. The images are licensed chiefly from Saskia, Ltd., and are subject to certain use restrictions. (Displayed using the Luna Insight® system.)
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  Mnemosyne
The Mnemosyne: Visual Culture Database houses more than 45,000 images of the fine arts, architecture, and archaeology with a wide selection of both Western and Non-Western subjects. We named the database Mnemosyne (pronunciation), the daughter of Uranus and Gaea, the personification of Memory, and, most importantly, the mother of the nine Muses, patron goddesses of the arts. The scope of the database reflects the curricula of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Barnard College. This database is no longer updated with new images.
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Portfolios
     
  Paintings
     
  Photography
     
  Worlds Fairs and Exhibitions
     
  Optical Devices and Techniques of Display
     
  Urban Modernization
     
  Louis Le Masson (1743–1829), Panorama of Rome, 1779
     
  Pierre Prevost (1764–1823), Preliminary drawing of Paris in 1804 for the Panorama of Paris Exhibition in Vienna in 1814
     
  Pierre Prevost (1764–1823), Preliminary canvas for the Panorama of Constantinople, 1818
     
  Charles Langlois (1789–1870), Study for The Battle of Moscow, 1838
     
  Paris Exposition of 1855
     
  World’s Columbia Exposition, Chicago, 1893
     
  Panoramic Photographs of Paris
     
  Panoramic Paintings


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