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The Concert at the Gardner

Since 2006, the Gardner Museum's free classical podcast The Concert has made world-class performances recorded live at the museum available to listeners across the globe.

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Collective Vision: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner traveled the globe for over three decades, assembling one of the world's most remarkable art collections. Produced for Public Television by Great Museums TV.

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There are a lot of great resources on the web where you can find information about Art as well as collections of images. Hover your mouse over the links to find out what they contain. Have fun exploring!

Art History Resources on the Web Maintained by a professor at Virginia College, this site includes links to information about artists, periods and much more.
Artcyclopedia Index to more than 1,200 sites related to the arts, including links to more than 32,000 works by 7,500 artists. The works can be browsed or searched by artist, title or museum.
Bibliography of the History of Art Bibliography of the History of Art indexes and abstracts books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer catalogs as well as articles on the history of Western art. The BHA file covers items from 1975-2007.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world. A description and images are included in each entry.
Mother of all Art and Art History Links Pages Created by Patrick Young at the University of Michigan, this site includes a vast array of links to research resources, art museums, textual and linguistic resources and much more.
Smarthistory Smarthistory.org is a free, not-for-profit, multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.

Credo Reference Why search here? Credo Reference is a searchable collection of over 500 reference books across a wide variety of subjects from top publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Wiley and Elsevier.What's included? Use Credo to help define your topic and then use the links on topic pages to discover more in-depth information in books and journals, find thousands of art images and connect your ideas using concept mapping.
Gale eBooks Why search here? Gale eBooks (formally Gale Virtual Reference Library) is a searchable online general reference collection. You can search across all the reference books or select a subject area. What's included? Gale eBooks includes titles in the arts, biography, business, education, the environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science and the social sciences.