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Arts
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Links to Arts & Craft On-Line
.. Holiday
Art & Images With the holiday season upon us, we
thought some folks might like to see {or, in some cases, even be able -- legally
-- to download and use} holiday art & images. The following sites,
then, include a variety of images and art work ... from classic paintings
to Victorian themes to artistic menorahs and more. Enjoy!
... And Happy Holidays!
A
Religious Christmas and Advent
 While
there are lots of sites out there with classic art images of The Nativity or
The Adoration of the Magi and more, this site -- sponsored by St. John's
Lutheran Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin -- has gathered together some links
to choice samples from around the web. ...
Simply click
anywhere on the image of the opening page, then look for Art in the links
that come up. ... Once you do, you'll find direct links to
works by Correggio, Raphael, Juan de Flandes, Albrecht Durer, Botticelli,
Raphael, Fra Anegelico, Filippo Lippi, and more. There are also images
from Medieval breviaries and Books of Hours, and even images from modern
postage stamps. You can certainly find much more out there
than this site provides links to. But if you'd like a quick and easy
way to see some of the best of the classic works with a Christmas theme,
then this is a great place to start. ...
Rating:
**** [4 stars] Christmas
Images
This site is part of Stock Solution -- a company which
specializes in licensing stock images for commercial uses. ...
While we don't normally include commercial-only sites, we included this one
because of its wealth of imagery. But the good news is, there are a
couple of free downloads you can use, and if you're so inclined, you can
purchase individual images relatively inexpensively, and collections at an
even better deal. They sell each of their fairly substantial
collections of a dozen to a dozen and a half images for about a dollar an
image, sometimes less. That's seems like a reasonable price for
personal use, including making your own greeting cards.
The
collections here are fairly extensive, with both sacred and secular images
from past and present. There are four initial listings,
including: Vintage images of Christmas past; Vintage angel images of
Christmas past; Traditional images of Christmas present; and Winter scenics
of Christmas present. But for those with specific leanings toward
things Victorian, the real find is probably their Olde-Fashioned Christmas
Eve collections, some of which are derived from original, 100-year old
chromolithographs.
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We're not exactly
sure how one goes about copyrighting stuff this old for re-sale. But
many of their images could be the perfect solution to your own homemade
cards.
Rating: ***1/2 [3-1/2 stars] Hanukkah
- Festival of Lights
This link is part of World ORT -- one of the
largest NGO education and training non-profits in the world, with activities
in over 100 countries. {For those who are curious, ORT is an acronym derived
from the Russian words Obschestvo Remeslenovo i zemledelcheskovo Trouda,
meaning The Society for Trades and Agricultural Labour.}...
The site
uses frames, so the link above will take you to the page with everything
having to do with the holiday. Simply click on Art, however, and
you'll find a small but definitively interesting 'slide show' of art in the
form of menorahs, including an elaborate Hanunkkiya of the Eight Gates of
Jerusalem. Unfortunately, the images could have been of higher
quality, but that should not deter you from taking a look.
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There's
lots of 'art' out there, including lots of schlock. But this is one of
the more interesting, even if highly focused, collections. For those
interested in additional images for Chanukah, we also invite you to visit
this month's Links to Religion & Spirit, which includes a couple of
sites devoted to Chanukah at which you'll find more art, as well as lots of
other info.
Rating: ***1/2 [3-1/2 stars]
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A Note About Links to Arts & Craft On-Line
The
amount of info on the web is enormous, as anyone who's ever tried to run a
search can attest to. To put it all in context, best estimates say that
only a fraction -- maybe 20 - 40 % of what's out there -- is actually making its
way to the search engines. Well, here at DownStreet,
we'd like to try to help. So each issue, we post a few links in Arts &
Craft to sites that might interest you. Sometimes the links will be
related to one another ... sometimes we'll just offer up a somewhat
random sampling. Sometimes they're about Vermont sites, sometimes
not. Of course, while we can't vouch for the fact that
every link we provide will be of interest to everyone, we do our best to filter
out the noise and the bustle and focus on quality sites. ... In that
light, we hope you enjoy these sites as much as we have. . *******
******* If you know of any
links that you think are worthwhile, why not send them along to ...
links@downstreetmagazine.com
... If we agree, we'll be happy to include
them in an upcoming issue to pass the word along. ...
Thanks. *******
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