The RISD Digital Image Database, RDID, continues to grow apace, thanks to requests from our very committed faculty. These are some of the image groups we have uploaded in the past month: Posters from German-occupied France during WWII 20th Century Chinese Art New Yorker Magazine Cartoons Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts
Posts Tagged ‘WWII’
French Posters, Chinese art, and much more now in RDID
Posted in RISD Digital Image Database, tagged France, Germany, posters, WWII on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spotlight on Video: The Rape of Europa
Posted in Video/DVD, tagged art theft, Europe, history, looting, Nazism, WWII on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The RISD library has recently acquired “The Rape of Europa,” a documentary film tracing the Nazi theft of art during World War Two, and the allied armies’ efforts to recover the stolen artworks. The film has been praised both for its rare archive footage, and for its narrative structure, which keeps viewers completely absorbed in [...]


