Using the search box:
• Search for a painting of Napoleon by the French Neoclassicist artist Jacques Louis David. At the search box, type in your keywords: david napoleon
• You may have noticed that your search brought up other artists and images besides those by David. That is because the search engine has done a keyword search and there was something about David and Napoleaon in the record somewhere. In order to retrieve more specific results, go into and search for David in the "creator only" field (an option in the drop-down menu). Now you will only get results for paintings about Napoleon done by David.
• Click on thumbnails to retrieve full-screen images. Make sure all pop-up blockers have been disabled on the computer.
• These images can now be saved and/or printed.

Searching by collections:
• Under the "Collections Heading" at the top menu, choose "ARTstor Collections" and then scroll down to see the array of collections of museums, various media and contemporary art available to you."
• Under "Contemporary Art" click on the "+" sign to search for "painting" or "film and video".
• These can be searched by country if you click again on "+".

Once you have registered, there is another layer of options available to you such as:

• Create and save groups of images
• Add personal notes to images
• Access and save to folders created by your instructor
• Download the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer presentation software for class presentations

- ARTstor Basics Assignment

How to search for art reproductions in art indexes/databases

1. Search the Art Index for art reproductions with the following search terms:
DT=art-reproduction or illustration
I.e. "botticelli and venus and DT=art-reproduction

2. Search the Bibliography of the History of Art in the following way:
"botticelli and venus and ill." to retrieve articles that contain illustrations.

3. Search Jstor and after retrieving a citation list, click on the "Images in Jstor" and you will be given a list of articles with related images. If you click on the "Images in ARTstor" tab,you will be given thumbnails that can be enlarged after logging on to ARTstor.

Download Google Earth now

There is an excellent Google Earth User Guide at the site.

I thought it would be interesting to search for world architecture and civic/public squares and to mark and tag it in Google Earth. Here are some topic suggestions:

• St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), Rome
• St. Mark's Cathedral (Piazza San Marco), Venice
• Colosseum, Rome
• Chartres Cathedral, Chartres
• Parthenon, Athens
• The Palm Islands, Dubai, UAE
• Empire State Building, New York City
• Sear's Tower, Chicago
• CN Tower, Toronto

In the Google Earth User Guide see section "Marking Places" for:

• Creating a New Placemark
• Saving a Point of Interest
• Sharing a Placemark
• Saving Search Results
• Saving Images
• Printing

You can now search for various landmarks in interesting cities, find images of high resolution and present these on a powerpoint slideshow for a class presentation. Have fun!

Interested in adding your photographs to the Virtual Learning Commons? You can through flickr, the website that allows you to upload and share your photographs.

How do you add your photographs? Go to flickr.com and open a free Yahoo account (if you don’t already have one). You can then upload your photographs to your personal flickr space.

I have created a group for first year Art History students that focuses on Winnipeg and Canadian art!

• Join the Art History flickr group by going to http://www.flickr.com/groups/umart/ or by clicking on the groups link at the top of your flickr page.
• Once you are in the Art History flickr group you can add any photos related to Winnipeg and Canadian art and design to the group.
• Make sure these are photos that you have taken yourself, or have copyright rights to.

That’s it. Have fun!

More detailed information on using Flickr is available on their website.