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curiousl artstor.org project provides metasearch to numerous first class collections of art, architecture and photo images.
Wannabe single place to search all existing collections, large museums and private collections alike.
The catch is that it is only available to scholars from universities or libraries, but not to general public. In Israel these are TAU, Open University and TA Museum of Art.
Wannabe single place to search all existing collections, large museums and private collections alike.
The catch is that it is only available to scholars from universities or libraries, but not to general public. In Israel these are TAU, Open University and TA Museum of Art.
Still, they list institutions that cooperate with them and provide metadata about their collection, so one can access original holder of the art work.
The funny thing is that access to the artwork & its data can be gained (at least in some random cases) through proper Google search ...
Btw, tip from Murtha Baca, the metadata name in Getty Institute, is: do use thesauri to arrive at variations of the name for whatever it is you are looking for. Then your favorite search engine will serve you better.
Of course, Google apparently got its hands on several name authorities, and this is what makes it serve you proper results in all kinds of languages no matter how you typed the name of your favorite artist: in Russian, in French or Italian. By querying the Name Authority relevant to the field they are able to retrieve all possible variations of the name and then search for all of them in the Wild Web ...
And some authorities even have historical names along with current variances of spelling and different languages.
The funny thing is that access to the artwork & its data can be gained (at least in some random cases) through proper Google search ...
Btw, tip from Murtha Baca, the metadata name in Getty Institute, is: do use thesauri to arrive at variations of the name for whatever it is you are looking for. Then your favorite search engine will serve you better.
Of course, Google apparently got its hands on several name authorities, and this is what makes it serve you proper results in all kinds of languages no matter how you typed the name of your favorite artist: in Russian, in French or Italian. By querying the Name Authority relevant to the field they are able to retrieve all possible variations of the name and then search for all of them in the Wild Web ...
And some authorities even have historical names along with current variances of spelling and different languages.
