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News | Metropolitan Museum of Art makes 400k images available for free download

Diana and Cupid by Pompeo Batoni  (Italian, Lucca 1708–1787 Rome) Date: 1761. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced last week that “more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including in scholarly publications in any media—without permission from the Museum and without a fee. The number of available images will increase as new digital files are added on a regular basis.” Press release here. The Met joins a growing number of art museums, such as the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the National Gallery of Art in…

News | The Getty makes images of their collection freely available

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Yesterday the Getty announced that it would make available all images of public domain works of art in the Getty’s collections. The initial release includes “making roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.” This is not just the release of images of the museum’s collection, it is apparently the beginning of the Getty’s ‘Open Content Program‘. This will share not only images from the collection, but also images from the collections of the Getty Research Institute such as documentation from field…