[1] The Annotated Specimens of Vasari's Life: the First Inventory

From: Giovanni Mazzaferro <gmazzaferro01gmail.com>
Date: Jun 20, 2016

The website 'Letteratura artistica. Cross-cultural Studies in Art History
Sources' has just published the first inventory of all the 1550 or 1568
specimens of Vasari's Lives with handwritten annotations (Annibale
Carracci, El Greco, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Inigo Jones and so on).

The complete list is available at
http://letteraturaartistica.blogspot.it/2016/06/giorgio-vasari.html

The inventory (17 samples) should be considered a work-in-progress. We
sincerely hope that other exemplaries may exist worldwide and kindly ask to
contact 'Letteratura artistica' (letteraturaartisticahotmail.com) if you
had more information about it.

[2] Getty Research Institute relaunches the Getty Research Portal

From: Anne Rana <aranagetty.edu>
Date: Jun 20, 2016

LOS ANGELES —The Getty Research Institute (GRI) is pleased to announce
the launch of an updated version of its research tool, the Getty Research
Portal.™ A virtual library of art history texts, the newly redesigned
Getty Research Portal now offers more than 100,000 volumes available from
more than 20 international partners.

Launched in 2012, and created in partnership with some of the world’s
leading art libraries, the Getty Research Portal is a free online search
gateway that aggregates the metadata of art history and cultural texts,
with links to fully digitized copies that are free to download. There are
no special requirements in order to use this resource and it is completely
open to anyone with internet access.

“When we began this exceptional project we had eight founding
institutions, all committed to sharing their digitized collections of rare
books, foundational art historical literature, catalogues, periodicals, and
other published resources with researchers without limit or impediment,”
says Thomas W. Gaehtgens, director of the GRI. “On our 4th anniversary,
we renew that commitment, with an improved user interface, more
international partners, and now more than 100,000 volumes available for
download. Thousands of people use this tool and our books have been viewed
nearly 13 million times. This broad access is fundamental to the GRI’s
mission to further the understanding of art and a core principal in our
approach to art historical research.”

The re-launched Portal has been rebuilt and redesigned, marking it easier
to explore digitized texts on art, architecture, material culture, and
related fields from the Getty Research Library and international partners.
The new user interface features several key improvements, including: new
search filters that make results sortable by criteria such as date and
language; a responsive design that allows for better use on phones and
tablets; individual pages for each digitized text enabling users to easily
share links; prominent display of edition details for books, when
available; and new additions from participating libraries are more clearly
highlighted.

The newest partners to join the Portal are the Bibliotheca Hertziana —
Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte in Rome, the Herzog August
Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel, the Menil Library Collection in Houston, the
Ryerson & Burnham Libraries – Art Institute of Chicago, the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum Library and Archives in New York, and the Warburg
Institute Library in London.

The Getty Research Portal can be accessed at http://portal.getty.edu/ and
to learn more about the recent updates to the project, see this post from
the Getty’s online magazine, the Iris:
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-research-portal-grows-new-design-100000-digitized-volumes/