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Umetnost

tellurian — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:12:10 -0800

The Digital Library of Slovenia has (among other things) music [like this] [previously], posters [like this] and photographs [like this].

Comic Book Cover Art Database

jonson — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:29:00 -0800

The Grand Comics Database is aiming to become the IMDB of comic books cover art. I only tested a couple from memory, but they seem to have a pretty deep reservoir of content, and fairly large scans of the results. Searchable by series title, character appearance, writer, illustrator and a number of other criteria.

Huge Art collection

vacapinta — Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:24:13 -0800

The Art Millenium "The Encyclopedia was founded in May 1999. It contains more than 15,000 pictures and overviews of about 1000 artists. Total size is 2.5 Gigabytes" I was there in their Collections looking at Graphics (Dore, Beardsley, Cranach, Durer, Giger), specifically all of Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonte. I have not begun to scratch the surface.

Artserve

hama7 — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:42:46 -0800

Welcome to ArtServe: Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin and Japan.

Picasso: Nearly 7,000 Images Online

taz — Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:55:52 -0800

The On-Line Picasso Project offers 6,893 works for your ogling pleasure, plus an obsessively documented chronological bio. I'm stunned. (please read the user's manual, inside.)

The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus

taz — Tue, 11 Feb 2003 07:23:45 -0800

"Bastarda"! What is it? Well, silly, it's a style of Gothic script, of course, used chiefly in the 14th and 15th centuries and so-called because it combines characteristics of the Gothic cursive style with the more formal "textura". Why do I know this? Because I've been surfing the mighty-wonderful Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus. More...

Twexus Mysterious Photoart

taz — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 02:34:03 -0800

"Twexus does contain 15800 images today". Twexus is an enigmatic, engaging little database-driven photoart site that rewards you with new site features as your page views increase. I can't seem to tear free from the hypnotic effect of the "symmetry" page that concerns itself with my opinion on each proffered image. sorry, gotta go... must... return... to... twexus...

mattpfeff — Sat, 01 Dec 2001 08:59:12 -0800

The AIDS Memorial Quilt has an official website. Its quilt image database is browsable and searchable by name, and includes images of over 42,960 individual panels, each in honor of a lost loved one.

It's an utterly amazing testament to those claimed by the disease, and to those who have survived them.