Collections Digital
Scope & Content
The digital collection represents more than 35,000 images and is growing at a rate of 10,000 a year. At this time, VRC digital holdings focus on three areas of study: Art, Art History and Anthropology, but will extend eventually to disciplines within the humanities and the sciences.
Arrangements
Digital resources are housed within a series of desktop folders and arranged under broad geographical, topical and genre headings.
Geographic Headings
- African
- American
- Ancient Near East
- China
- India
- Japanese
- Mexican
- Native American
Genre Headings
- Architecture
- Body Art
- Ceramics
- Design_new_media
- Photography
- Textiles
Topical Headings
- Aegean
- Contemporary_painting_scuplture
- Egyptian
- European_18th-19th
- Etruscan_Roman
- Greek
- Italian_renaissance
- Modern_painting_scuplture
- Medieval
- Paleolithic-Neolithic
Within each folder is a series of sub-folders categorized by artist surname, country, community, or tribe. For more information on collection access please refer to services.
