Dear list,

All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum are now online at
http://token.rijksmuseum.nl/
Up to now this information was only available in one of the most
impressive printed museum catalogues. Presenting over 5000 paintings,
this web version has a fine query function and it is a true digital gold
mine for text and for high quality color images. This stunning site is
available for free.
The text presentation and query frames are in the Dutch language only
for the time being. This should however not deter you.
Please click on Zoeken=Search. Then the query frame opens. For finding
information about any Artist fill in the name in the box
Vervaardiger=Artist. The rest is quite self evident I would say.

This vast digital project was funded by NWO Dutch Science Fund and
executed by the ToKeN2000 group which promotes digitizing Dutch cultural
heritage. ToKeN2000 is an interdisciplinary research programme, "in
which cognition and computer science focus on fundamental problems
affecting interaction between human beings on the one hand, and
knowledge and information systems and the products they yield on the
other hand". More information on ToKeN2000 is available by e-mail at:
token2000nwo.nl

Seeking contact with curators of Dutch art working in art museums and
institutions is greatly facilitated by the revamped web site
www.codart.nl
This site is managed by art historian Gary Schwarz, formerly publisher
of the book version of All the Paintings of the Rijksmuseum.

Gary Schwartz also publishes a serious weekly newspaper column on art in
the Dutch newspaper FD. By e-mail he makes an english language version
available to a list of international readers. This English version is
for free upon request - please mail your request to
Gary.D.Schwartzlet.uu.nl

Yours sincerely,

Kees Kaldenbach
Digital Vermeer House
www.johannesvermeer.info

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