Visual Resources Update November 2023
Visual Resources Update November 2023 We are excited to announce two wintersessions: Sicilian Stories: Tales & Treats from The American Excavations at Morgantina (Monday, January 22, 1-4pm) Presented by Digital Project Specialist Leigh Lieberman and A&A PhD candidate Will Pedrick Archaeologists from Princeton University began excavating at Morgantina, a small town in east central Sicily, …
Visual Resources Update October 2023
Visual Resources Update October 2023 Color the Past outreach event on International Archaeology Day Commemorating International Archaeology Day, Visual Resources partnered with The Princeton Public Library for an all ages “Color the Past” event. Participants helped themselves to coloring supplies as well as copies of pen and ink drawings of monuments and artifacts drafted by …
Visual Resources Update September 2023
Visual Resources Update September 2023 Welcome back! We have had a busy summer (7 visiting researchers!) and look forward to both sharing our progress and embarking on new projects in the coming academic year. ART341 students consult the Day-Klauder scrapbooks Visual Resources has been happy to host the students of Prof. Baudez’s class, Art 341: …
Visual Resources Monthly Update May 2023
Visual Resources Monthly Update May 2023 VR’s Digital Project Specialist Leigh Lieberman serves as a principal investigator for Disciplinary Improvements for Past Global Change Research: Connecting Data Systems and Practitioners, a Research Coordination Network funded by the National Science Foundation. In this capacity, Leigh recently helped to facilitate the group’s first symposium, held in mid-May …
Visual Resources Monthly Update April 2023
Images for courses in Canvas The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and Visual Resources are working together to make high-quality images available for Princeton courses directly within the university learning management system, Canvas. By utilizing the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), a set of open standards for the delivery of high-quality images and associated …
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Visual Resources Update March 2023
Visual Resources Update March 2023 Howard Crosby Butler archive featured in the classroom for ART 102 Visual Resources was delighted to be part of ART 102, Introduction to the History of Architecture, taught by Profs. Holzman and Yerkes. Prof. Holzman designed precepts around the Howard Crosby Butler archive, specifically the materials concerned with Qasr al-Abd, …
Visual Resources Update February 2023
Artstor content available in JSTOR The Visual Resources image collection in Artstor (close to 245,000 images) is now also available via JSTOR, in the ‘Princeton Art and Archaeology’ collection. On August 1, 2024, the Artstor website will retire and all users will be redirected to JSTOR, the digital library platform you may know for access …
Visual Resources Update December/January 2022-2023
Visual Resources Update December/January 2022-2023 Monuments Men and Women in Permanent Exhibition Visual Resources is pleased to provide high quality images from the Albert Sheldon Pennoyer Collection for use in a permanent exhibition at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana. The collection is unique in that many of the operation’s principal …
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Visual Resources Update November 2022
Visual Resources Presentations in November Visual Resources staff Julia Gearhart, Yichin Chen and Leigh Lieberman were delighted to present to ART 400, the Junior Seminar, on Thursday, November 10. Julia and Yichin spoke about the history of images in the art history classroom, and some of the benefits and challenges of the multitude of digital …
Visual Resources Update October 2022
The Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Lecture On Monday October 3 Visual Resources hosted Dr. Fikret K. Yegül for the hybrid Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Lecture. Dr. Yegül’s lecture was a thoughtful, nuanced examination of the life and career of an exceptional man. Thank you to everyone who attended and we hope to continue to bring …