Discoveries: A Library Blog

Horizontal stack of 8 library books on Hispanic American art history

Reading List: National Hispanic Heritage Month

Marble statue of King Louis XII of France in military garb with his right hand raised

Ars Longa: Capturing a Revolutionary Restoration

Archival photo of a painting of a group of young girls eating at a school lunch table

Data Discoveries: Completing the Picture of Artists in the Photoarchive

Stack of six books on LGBTQ+ art history with spines showing against a gray background

Reading List: Pride Month 2021

Stack of six books on Asian and Pacific Islander American art history, against a gray background

Reading List: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2021

Gallery view of a woman looking at an oil painting of King Philip IV of Spain

Reading List: Frick Madison

Botanical illustration of three blue flowers on a stem, a caterpillar, and a moth

Reading List: Women's History Month

Book cover of "Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction," featuring a colorful abstract painting

Hilma af Klint: Beyond "Beyond the Visible"

Library staff member scanning an archival photo at a workstation with lights and an overhead camera

"Technological Revolutions and Art History": The Ethical Challenges of Digitization

Collage of black-and-white archival photographs of works of art

175,000 New Photoarchive Records Available Digitally

Grayscale image of a painting of a man in a suit, looking to his left

Reading List: Black History Month

A photographer taking a photo of a portrait in a richly decorated room, with two others assisting.

Photoarchive Centennial Project: Carrying the Library's Founding Collection Forward

Detail of a map pinpointing the location of Joshua Johnson’s painting “The Westwood Children."

Library Debuts Interactive Map of 20th-Century Frick Photo Expeditions

Collage of Rubens's "Venus at the Forge of Vulcan" and "An Old Woman with a Brazier"

Ars Longa: Photoarchive Retraces History of Separated Rubens Paintings

Illustration from Athanasius Kircher's “Ars magna lucis et umbrae” of 1646.

"Technological Revolutions and Art History": Four-Part Symposium Weighs Urgent Questions in the Field

Color photograph of Helen Sanger, who died in July 2020.

Remembering Helen Sanger, Frick’s First Mellon Chief Librarian

Screenshot of the landing page of NYARC's Web archiving program

Preserving the Digital Presence of New York City Galleries

Screenshot of the web-based tool for digital image manipulation and organization.

ARIES: ARt Image Exploration Space

Black-and-white image of a portrait of a woman in a hat looking to the left and smiling.

One Portrait, Two Identifications

photo of green box, with man's portrait at center

A La Vieille Russie and Peter Carl Fabergé

Painting of a woman seated at a table set near a window with a man handing her a sheet

Datasets of the Dutch Golden Age

Black-and-white photograph of a light fixture.

Alfred Cook's "Progress Photographs"

Tempera painting on poplar panel of Saint Lucy dressed in blue holding a martyr's palm

Curating the Visual Landscape of Our Digital World

Screenshot of a 3D model of an ancient Zapotec vessel.

Re-viewing Digital Technologies and Art History

Black and white photograph of a monumental wall tomb

Looking Closely

Sketch of deer antlers.

Mind the Antlers

An advertisement for a painting of a landscape featuring a settlement of Native Americans.

Art and Advertising

Image depicting the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.

The Madonna of Einsiedeln

Painting

Know Your Meme

A color drawing of a vase filled with colorful tulips with a small bird's nest

Selections from the William H. Schab Gift

Three-quarter-length portrait of a man against a landscape, pointing to three pyramids.

A Cosgrave as a Copley

Painted portrait of an old man in red robes standing at a desk with large open

Visualizing the Spanish Artists Dictionary

Drawing of a massive townhouse standing on the corner of a busy intersection in mid-century Manhatta

Intimate Sketches of New York

Half-length portrait of a woman wearing an embroidered dress,standing next to a bouquet of flowers.

The Lost Bride

A black-and-white photograph of a Renaissance wall tomb set in a Venetian church.

Analog Facial Recognition

Two photographs of a small devotional altarpiece of the Madonna and Child

Kress Foundation Grant for Image Analysis Toolkit

A restored half-length painting of the Virgin Mary wearing a veil holding the Baby Jesus.

A Byzantine Madonna in Italy

A woman holding a young child and a small spaniel on her lap.

Lost and Found

Half-length portrait of a young woman dressed in a short-sleeved white dress and a shawl in a chair.

Art and Fashion

Group portrait of four young brothers and their young sister seated around a table.

The Bannard Family Leaves Brooklyn

A view into a large study room featuring round tables and skylights.

Art Historical Connections: The Hague and New York Meet Again

Corner of a room with a section of fresco depicting the head and shoulders of a young blond man.

Piero della Francesca's St. Julian In Situ

A half-length painting of a young woman wearing a crown and holding an arrow and a standard.

A St. Ursula by Valentin de Boulogne?

Group portrait of twenty-four people standing in a garden.

The Future of Photoarchives

A large room with fifty windows and a ceiling of exposed wooden rafters and beams.

The Allegorical Frescoes of the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua

Standing young male saint in a panel holding a cross and a book and facing left.

St. Lawrence Recovered

Long, triangular abstract painting with texts.

Forgotten Folk Songs

Drawing of a cityscape with fortifications and a temple on a hill at right.

The Parthenon in 1667

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