Sarah Quill and ARTstor

* Collaborative Agreement Reached Between Sarah Quill and ARTstor *

Sarah Quill and ARTstor announced today that they had reached an
agreement to collaborate on the digitization and distribution through
ARTstor of several thousand images from Sarah Quill�s unique
photographic archive devoted to the architectural history of the city
of Venice, Italy. For more than 30 years, Sarah Quill has been
photographing the buildings and civic life of Venice. Her marvelous
photographs have been reproduced in innumerable books and articles
devoted to subjects ranging from the architecture of the Italian
Renaissance to architectural conservation and cultural heritage
policy, as well as in her own publications, including Ruskin�s Venice:
The Stones Revisited. Through this agreement, ARTstor will digitize up
to 10,000 slides from Sarah Quill�s unique archive.

In reaching this agreement, Sarah Quill and Max Marmor, ARTstor�s
Director of Collection Development, expressed their enthusiasm in
collaborating to preserve this unique archive and to make its contents
available for educational and scholarly use through ARTstor. �I am
delighted that the archive will be associated with this important
resource� comments Sarah Quill. �Our exciting partnership with Sarah
Quill represents a major milestone in ARTstor�s effort to provide a
rich body of architectural history images for use by teachers,
students and scholars,� adds Marmor. �No major European city has been
more richly documented than the city of Venice, thanks to Sarah
Quill�s epic documentation effort.�

Sarah Quill is the preeminent modern photographer and chronicler of
the built environment and public spaces of Venice. She works in London
and Venice, and is well-known as photographer, teacher, and scholar.

ARTstor (http://www.artstor.org) was created in 2001 as a non-profit initiative of The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and is now an independent non-profit
organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the
arts and the humanities. Currently, more than 500 non-profit
institutions in the U.S. and Canada are participating in ARTstor. A
pilot distribution is underway in the UK and Australia/New Zealand,
and further international availability is being actively explored.