Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID of approx. 70 jewelry objects from various museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Kremlin Armoury Museum.
These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Jewelry & Personal Category and entering “Scholars Resource 9959″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
The Anastasis. Byzantine, 12th Century. Armoury Museum, Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Earring with Nike Driving a Two-horse Chariot. Greek, c.35-325 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Necklace. Eugene Fontenay. c.1870. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Frog Pendant. Chiriqui, Costa Rica. c.11th – 16th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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The VRC will be conducting workshops for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Friday, November 5, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m., and Tuesday, November 9, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of these sessions is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Tuesday, October 12, 10:00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this session is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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Below is a sample of recent additions to the SCAD DID of over 130 Islamic objects from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including examples of textiles, manuscripts, calligraphy, armor, and ceramics.
These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Islamic Period and entering “Scholars Resource 9633″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Melancholy Courtesan. c.1750. India, Mughal.
Helmet. 15th Century. Iran, Safavid.
Carpet. 16th Century. Iran, Safavid.
Mosque Lamp. Late 14th Century. Egypt, Mamluk.
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The VRC has recently added digital images to the SCAD DID from the following architecture books:
Stamper, John W. The Architecture of Roman Temples: The Republic to the Middle Empire
Posener, Julius. Han Poelzig: Reflections on His Life and Work
Tavernor, Robert. On Alberti and the Art of Building
Blunt, Anthony. Borromini
De Albentiis, Emidio. Secrets of Pompeii: Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
Ward-Perkins, J.B. Roman Imperial Architecture
Eaton, Ruth. Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)built Environment
Riley, Terence. The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings
Broto, Carles. Domestic Interiors Now
Images from these sources can be easily located in the SCAD DID by entering a book title in the Book Source field.
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The VRC will be conducting a workshop for SCAD faculty, staff, and students on Wednesday, July 28, 11:00 a.m. – 12.30 a.m., Jen Library, room 108. The purpose of this session is to highlight the digital resources that are available to faculty and to demonstrate the fundamentals of using ARTstor to find and save images, to download and organize images from the SCAD Digital Image Database (DID), and how to incorporate these images using the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (OIV) to create class presentations. Participants will also learn how to have images added to the SCAD DID to fill the needs of specific courses and student presentations.
Seating is limited so please email vrc@scad.edu, or call 525-4726 to reserve a spot.
If you cannot attend, but would like to be shown the operations covered in the training sessions, please call or email the VRC to make an appointment for individual training.
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Today we uploaded the one hundred thousandth image to the SCAD Digital Image Database!
Frieze Tile with Phoenix c.1270′s
Iran, probably from Takht-i Sulayman
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
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Below is a sampling of over 60 slides donated to SCAD by Earle W. Newton that have been scanned and added to the SCAD DID. Included are images of English country architecture photographed in the 1950′s, as well as views of various European sites. These images can be easily browsed by selecting the Architecture category and entering “Newton 5/2010″ in the Archive Source field.
above, clockwise from upper left:
Crathes Castle. 1596. Banchory, Scotland
Castillo de Manzaneres el Real. late 15th C. Manzaneres el Real, Spain
Gargoyle, Paris Cathedral of Notre Dame. c.1163-1250. Paris, France
Speke Hall. 1530. Speke, England
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The VRC has recently completed a project of scanning a wide selection of fashion images from the 1888 edition of Le Costume Historique from the Jen Library special collections. These images can be easily browsed in the SCAD DID by selecting the Fashion category and entering “Le Costume Historique″ in the Book Source field.
Costumes of Constantinople. 19th C.
India – Dancing Women and Musicians. c.19th C.
Venetian Costumes. c.1550-1600
European Womenswear. c.16th-17th C.
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The Jen Library is hosting an Open House next Wednesday May 5th from 3pm to 7pm. We are highlighting areas of our collection specifically for Animation, Sequential Art and Illustration majors. We will have a Special Collections display of Don Bluth works, limited edition graphic , artists books and more. We will also be giving away flip books, buttons and videos that were part of the Bluth donation. The Visual Resource Center will host digital image database demonstrations and the Reference department will be asking both students and faculty for collection suggestions. Learn how the Writers Studio can help you improve writing and communication skills and meet tutors at the Learning Resource Hive. Please join us for our Open House at Jen Library May 5th.
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