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A b o u t u s

OCAIW (Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web) is mainly an educational and non-profit site.

OCAIW IS THE SITE FOR THOSE THAT APPRECIATE ART.
Setting up this site and keeping it on-line has required hard work as well as financial expenses. We have been on-line since January 1997, and we hope to be helpful to our users also for the next years. OCAIW is visited by over three hundred thousand people each month: art lovers, teachers, students, artists and collectors.

Considering the size of our site, destined to expand in the future, the expenses for its keeping are considerable: cost of the server, all the material about art, replacement and hardware maintenance. Wondering how to resolve this problem, we were faced with two possibilities: have our regular visitors offer a donation or show advertising. We chose the latter as we wish to continue providing free access to our site. Our main concern has always been to host a discreet advertising.

HELP US TO KEEP OCAIW ON THE WEB , BUYING THE POSTERS AND THE BOOKS WE CHOSE FOR YOU AND CLICKING ON THE ADVERTISING BANNERS LOCATED AT THE TOPS OF PAGES!

We’d like to remind you to visit our educational and non-profit site to help with our expenses.

OCAIW consists of:

- A CATALOGUE of the Great Art Masters' Works, divided into 4 sections:

PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, ARCHITECTS and PHOTOGRAPHERS.
In the section "Painters" are included the Artists in other fields, as: Engravers, Illustrators, Graphics, Printmakers, etc..
Every section of the catalogue includes a listing of the greatest artists in Art History. Each artist has his/her own enterance page with a presentation of his/her works and one page listing the works available on the web. By clicking on the title of the work you gain access to the page of the Museum or Virtual Gallery hosting the work. May we point out that the images included in the catalogue, except those referring to OCAIW gallery, are the property and the responsibility of the site owners. Those wishing to use the images must first ask permission from the site owners.

- The "MASTERS GALLERY" is the Gallery of the Great Masters of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Photography.

- The "THE NUDE IN ART HISTORY"GALLERY, represents the greatest existing collection on the web of Nude Masterpieces in the fields of Painting and Sculpture..

- The "DEGAS GALLERY" is a gallery devoted to Edgar Degas, one of the most famous Masters of French Impressionism. There are 91 works, many of which are unpublished on the web, and a detailed chronological biography of his life and work.

- The "PHOTO GALLERY BY ORAZIO" presents a large selection of works by the photographer Orazio Centaro in the fields of the portrait and reportage.

- The "PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY" shows the most important works by great artists such as Julia M. Cameron and Dorothea Lange.

- Please note that in preparing this site we have tried hard to respect copyrighted material, and comply with fair use guidelines. If you feel we have violated your copyright, please notify us and we will remove the offending material, or at your discretion, include a credit to you and your copyright. This site is a non-commercial educational resource, and our primary intent is to provide a recourse for the advancement of the study of art and art history.

- A complete list of the Artists you find in “Catalogue” and in the Gallery “The Nude in Art History” is available in the page “Artist OnLine”. To visit them you have just to click on [cat] and [nud] before the Artist’s name.Plenty of e-mails we get daily don’t let us a ready answer. We apologize in advance.

We hope you enjoy the new version of OCAIW.

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