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Artists in Paris: Mapping the 18th-Century Art World

Artists in Paris is an open-access digital humanities and art history project that maps hundreds of 18th-century artists' homes and studios. This website's database contains an entry for 471 artists. All of these artists were "members of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture (Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture) between 1675 (when comprehensive address records began) and 1793...

https://artistsinparis.org
ArtStoryLab

Begun in early 2020 by art historian Hyejin Lee, the YouTube channel ArtStoryLab features short videos focused primarily on 18th-century European art. As of this writing, the channel includes 24 episodes on artworks, artists, museums, and more. For example, an 11-minute video from June 27, 2021, "[Peace of Art] How to Pay Attention Like Jean-Simeon Chardin," discusses the artist and includes an...

https://www.youtube.com/c/ArtStoryLab
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Asia Art Archive

Visual arts scholars, educators, and aficionados will likely find much to interest them in the Asia Art Archive (AAA). Based in Hong Kong, this resource focuses on primary and secondary materials about contemporary Asian art with most of its collection being from the mid-1990s and the 2000s. Visitors to the AAA's website, newly launched in 2017, will find a wealth of resources to explore. The...

https://aaa.org.hk/en
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Asia Art Archive: Collection

Founded in 2000 by Claire Hsu and Johnson Chang, the Asia Art Archive (AAA) is a non-profit organization that was formed to address "the urgent need to document and make accessible the multiple recent histories of art in the region." Based out of Hong Kong, the AAA is home to artwork, photographs, manuscripts, and more from across the continent of Asia. On the collection page of AAA's website,...

https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections
Asia Society: Islamic Calligraphy

This website from the Asia Society is actually two exhibitions in one: Traces of the Calligrapher and Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur'an. The former focuses on the men and women who have practiced calligraphy, or beautiful writing, the most esteemed of the Islamic visual arts, while the latter provides a few samples of their craft. In the opening section, "Tools and Materials",...

http://sites.asiasociety.org/islamiccalligraphy/
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Auburn University Theatre Collection

The Auburn University Theatre Collection, part of the Auburn University Digital Library, includes just under two hundred items documenting theater productions at Auburn from 1914 - 2007. The earliest item is a 5-page typescript titled, "Information About Dramatic Productions Given at Auburn," that lists titles and dates of plays produced in the 1910s, 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s. The most recent item...

http://diglib.auburn.edu/collections/theatre/
Bach Cantatas

Deciding which one of J.S. Bach’s vocal works was his greatest compositional triumph may be impossible, but those seeking high quality online resources on his remarkable accomplishments need look no further than these two sites. The first is dedicated to his cantatas, and visitors are presented with a wealth of material here, ranging from English translations of these works to a list of upcoming...

https://www.bach-cantatas.com/
Baroque

Some people might think of the Baroque movement as overly fussy and ostentatious, and if they do, this website might win them over to its charms. Those who are already converted will definitely want to spend some time wandering over this online exhibit designed to complement a in site exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Visitors can learn more about Baroque style, palaces, the patronage of...

https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/baroque
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Beauties of America: Staffordshire Pottery

Those familiar with the organization probably tend to think of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) as an independent library and source of research fellowships, with rich collections of printed materials documenting the 16th to the 19th centuries. However, in recent years the AAS has made available an ever-increasing number of digital resources, as evidenced by the Digital AAS section of its...

https://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Ridgway/ente...
Benin-Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria [Quick Time, Adobe

The royal arts of the Benin Kingdom of south-central Nigeria focus on the centrality of the "Oba", or divine king, and this exhibit, organized by museums in Austria, Africa, Germany, the U.S., and France, traces the history of Benin's royal arts from the early 13th century to the mid-twentieth. On the exhibition's website there are ten themes to explore including "The Warrior Obas", "The Oba's...

https://archive.artic.edu/benin/index.html
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