Visualization Lab for Digital Art History

Christopher Dresser Bottle, 19th C., English, Bone china, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson Study for "Portrait of an Indian" (detail), 19th C., French, Oil on canvas, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Paul Cézanne Still Life with Apples and Pears (detail), 1885-87, French, Oil on canvas, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Byzantine Medallion from an Icon Frame, 11th-12th C., Cloisonné enamel, gold, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jackson Pollock Number 8 (detail), 1949, American, Oil, enamel, and aluminum paint on canvas

Carlo Crivelli Pietà (detail), 1476, Italian, Tempera on wood, gold ground, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Visualization Lab for Digital Art History

Collections

V-Lab Collection

The Visualization Lab for Digital Art History maintains a continually expanding online collection of visual media representing the History of Art Department’s teaching and research strengths, in addition to encyclopedic coverage of art, architecture, and visual culture from prehistory to the present across major geographic regions, chronological periods, and artistic traditions.

Access to the V-Lab Collection is restricted to UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff, and may be searched on the Artstor Digital Library platform, alongside Artstor’s own digital media collections, featuring more than two million images from 280 collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Foundation, MoMA, the National Gallery in London, and the Louvre.

For help with access to the collection, please contact the V-Lab.

Mission Statement

The Visualization Lab for Digital Art History supports digital scholarship and pedagogy by fostering the creative application of technology in the service of research, teaching, and publishing in the arts and humanities at UC Berkeley.

About

The Visualization Lab for Digital Art History (V-Lab) is an academic support unit that meets the information and technology needs of faculty and students in the arts and humanities through access to its collections, digital project support, programming, outreach efforts, and media services.

The V-Lab team is a creative group of information professionals and technologists that connect faculty and students to emerging technologies and media resources relevant to scholarship, teaching, and publishing in the Digital Age.

Through project-based partnerships with UC Berkeley faculty and students, the V-Lab seeks to advance technological innovation in the Digital Humanities.