The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has an intriguing online exhibit about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which was formed by three painters, J.E. Millais, W.H. Hunt, and D.G. Rossetti in the 1840s, as a response to the establishment of photography as a popular medium. The Brotherhood and their followers aimed to "return to the purity, sincerity, and clarity of detail found in...
The (UK) National Portrait Gallery's online portrait database now has a search feature, ideal for all of us who eagerly flip to the back of a book's dust jacket for the author's picture or check a Website's "about" section for images of its creators. The online database contains approximately 10,000 images selected from the million or more portraits of famous Britons in the Gallery's collection....
The UK National Portrait Gallery, which has made its collection of almost 200,000 portraits searchable online since the early days of the world wide web (http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/), now offers this digital resource page with a variety of tools to help both teachers and casual visitors better utilize its collections. Teacher's resources are provided for primary and secondary...