Smarthistory
Course materials · Smarthistory, a US non-profit founded by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker
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Art history essays and videos by specialists, arranged by period and region, with free textbooks for course-level study.
Before you rely on itContent is published under a non-commercial ShareAlike Creative Commons licence and many embedded images belong to museums, so reuse is not unrestricted.
Good for getting oriented on an unfamiliar work, movement or region before turning to the scholarly literature.Telebem editors
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- Art and design · History · Education
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- Web · PDF
- Languages
- English, with some translated material
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- Smarthistory, a US non-profit founded by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker
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- smarthistory.org
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