Longtime Open Culture readers will have encountered Johannes Vermeer here in various forms: his paintings have appeared as animations, as the subject of a documentary, and even free for the download in high resolution as well as viewable in augmented reality. Though painted in the mid-17th-century Netherlands, the Dutch master's work now appeals to modern viewers everywhere. Most who enter... Continue Reading →
Europe Day Webinar
To commemorate this year’s Europe Day organised on the 9th of May a webinar dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage is being organised. This webinar brings together two of the smallest island nations of the EU – Malta and Cyprus. These are the only EU members physically cut off from the main continent with thousands of years of rich history and unique UNESCO listed world... Continue Reading →
Accessing Heritage Places From Home
The CIPA Emerging Professionals, ICOMOS, NSERC Create Heritage Engineering Programme and the National Trust for Canada invites you to attend the Accessing Heritage Places from Home webinar on May 7th at 10 am – 12 pm (EST). Register! More information: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cipaep
The British Museum Puts 1.9 Million Images Online for Public Use
As part of a website refresh, The British Museum has made over 1.9 million photos of its collections freely available to the public. Visitors to their online collections website can download images, and share & adapt them for non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Museum director Hartwig Fischer said of the refresh: The British... Continue Reading →
Rembrandt
Museums in Quarantine Series 1, Episode 2 of 4 Historian Simon Schama takes us on a very personal virtual tour of the Young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, currently in lockdown. The exhibition charts the first ten years of the Dutch master’s career, when the miller’s son from Leiden became the superstar of... Continue Reading →
You Can Download Thousands of Coloring Book Pages From Museum Collections
There is nothing quite like the satisfaction of peeling back the label on a well-used crayon and adding the last dabs of color to the outlined illustration of a coloring book page. With this past decades’ introduction of mass-market adult coloring books, book stores and home goods markets alike have added coloring book materials to... Continue Reading →
Old Book Illustrations: An Online Database Lets You Download Thousands of Illustrations from the 19th & 20th Centuries
The Golden Age of Illustration is typically dated between 1880 and the early decades of the 20th century. This was “a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration,” writes Artcyclopedia; the time of artists like John Tenniel, Beatrix Potter (below), Arthur Rackham, and Aubrey Beardsley. Some of the most prominent illustrators, such as Beardsley and... Continue Reading →
Museum Lives In Post-Pandemia
The coronavirus pandemic has brought unprecedented challenges to the museum landscape. As expected, most institutions turned to social media but should museums think differently when trying to bridge a physical and virtual reality? This webinar shall explore the ways and means how institutions can sustain relevance over time even when circumstances dictate closure. It shall... Continue Reading →
Τα Έργα Του Εl Greco Ζωντανεύουν…
Οι πίνακες του Δομήνικου Θεοτοκόπουλου (El Greco / Ο Έλληνας) ζωντανεύουν μέσα από το βίντεο του Zouan Kourtis. Γεννήθηκε στην Κρήτη όπου και σπούδασε βυζαντινή ζωγραφική αλλά και εξοικειώθηκε με τη δυτική τέχνη, διέπρεψε στην Ισπανία κατά την περίοδο της Αναγέννησης αφού μαθήτευσε στα εργαστήρια των Μπασάνο, Τιντορέντο και Τιτσιάνο και αναδείχθηκε σε μία από... Continue Reading →
Why People Believe They Can’t Draw? How To Prove They Can!
" Why is it that so many people think they can’t draw? Where did we learn to believe that? Graham Shaw will shatter this illusion – quite literally - in a very practical way. He’ll demonstrate how the simple act of drawing has the power to make a positive difference in the world. Graham specialises... Continue Reading →
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