Grant Wood is best known for his painting "American Gothic," but what of his other works? There are many, of course, and this remarkable digital collection from the University of Iowa Libraries presents a trove of visual material, scrapbooks, and other material objects from his life and career. The materials here come from the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, and funding for the digital...

As Pliny the Elder wrote in "Natural History": "And so we must now proceed to explain also the nature of glass..." Taking its cue from that immortal line, this interactive exhibit from the Penn Museum explores the history of glassworking through the six centuries of Roman domination of the Mediterranean world. Through photographs and diagrams, this website tells the story of glassware in everyday...

The J. Paul Getty Museum came up with a clever idea for exhibiting fragile, light-sensitive, illuminated manuscripts: a two-part exhibition. The show goes up, and pages of the manuscripts are turned on a specific date to revel new images. In this case, the show started in December 2011, and pages were turned on February 28, 2012. The advantage of the web version of the show is that visitors can...

This website aims to get fine art into people's homes. The fine art medium happens to be photographs of the originals, but they are really good photographs. For each painting, there is a very detailed explanation of the work, which can be found by clicking on the painting. A selection of ultra-high definition images of paintings are available for viewing on the site. Each painting includes...

Visitors to the Web version of this Getty Museum exhibition may well have an advantage over on-site visitors. While the physical exhibition features more than 130 illuminated books produced in Flanders between 1470 and 1560, viewers at the Web site have a chance to get much closer to twenty selected manuscripts, using the Zoom & Explore functions provided. Click a thumbnail to investigate a single...

From the Butler University Libraries and Center for Digital Technology comes this LibGuide for Art and Visual Rhetoric resources. While librarian Sheri Storms designed this LibGuide specifically for students in a particular Butler University Arts course, this collection of resources may appeal more broadly to other arts instructors and students. The three sections that will be of most interest are...

Originally featured in The Scout Report in 2002, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art recently garnered a Webby award for Best Art Website. In the fifteen years since we originally featured the Timeline, the team behind this resource has continued to add essays and works of art to this project. The result is an astonishingly extensive interactive timeline that highlights art...

Taking its name from the type of American movie theater that houses a large number of screens in order to provide a wide variety of movies, the web site for Multiplex, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), teaches an art history lesson in an entertaining fashion. Introductory comments from Deborah Wye, curator of the exhibition, point out that it was around 1970 that our current...

This page from the Musee des Beaux-Arts provides ready access to 14 identified collections within the Musee's impressive holdings, which include paintings, sculptures, drawings, and objets d'art dating from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first. "Who owns these paintings" presents paintings on deposit at the Musee des Beaux-Arts as part of a national art repatriation effort, Musees Nationaux...

Last discussed in the March 30, 2012, Scout Report, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has spent the last six years continuing to make available digital versions of many thousands of artifacts from its collections. This bounty can be searched or browsed using categories based on the MFAH's collecting areas, such as Latin American art, modern art, or photography. For those interested in...