Image Searching
- Britannica Image Quest This link opens in a new windowMore than two million rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best image collections in the world. (NVCC)
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowArtstor features millions of high-quality images and media. All content is rights-cleared for education and research — you are free to use it in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.
Artstor is now part of JSTOR. (NVCC) - Oxford Art Online - Grove Art Online This link opens in a new window30,000 signed articles and images on visual arts, over 6,000 subject entries and 20,000 biographies, and 7,000 searchable images. This resource also includes the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd edition), The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms. (NVCC)
Videos
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Educational videos on a variety of topics including humanities, social sciences, business, economics, science, mathematics, health, medicine, technical education, family and consumer sciences, careers and job search, guidance and counseling and archival films and newsreels. (NVCC, VCCS) - Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Academic videos from many disciplines, including history, health, psychology, music, business, art, science, law, literature and education. (VIVA)
Links below are overview series that cover broad areas of art, like the Renaissance or Abstract Expressionism. Some focus on specific artists.
- Masterworks of Western ArtHistorical information and comparisons to other period paintings promote a deep appreciation and understanding of how styles developed within the major schools of art and how works of art respond to the context of their time. Extreme close-ups reveal the brush strokes invisible in art book illustrations.
- CivilizationsSurvey the history of art, from antiquity to the present, on a global scale. This nine-part series reveals the role art and creative imagination have played in forging humanity, and introduces viewers to works of beauty, ingenuity, and illumination across cultures.
- Great ArtistsArt historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some the greatest Western artists in history. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured.