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Art Institute of Chicago Offers Thousands of Free, High-Resolution Images. Georges Seurat,” A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884″ (1884–8), oil on canvas, 81 3/4 x 121 1/4 inches (image courtesy Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection) The Art Institute of Chicago has opened up much of its digital archive to the public.

Art Institute of Chicago Offers Thousands of Free, High-Resolution Images

Now, website users have unrestricted access to thousands of images — exactly 44,313, with more to be added — under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. This move is part of the museum’s website redesign. What this means, according to the Art Institute, is that these images can be downloaded for free on the artwork’s pages.

In addition, the Institute has also enhanced image viewing capabilities on object pages, allowing viewers to see the works in greater detail. Vincent van Gogh, “The Bedroom” (1888), oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 inches (image courtesy Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection) Samuel J. This move is not unprecedented. Support Hyperallergic Become a Member. Northern Forest Atlas. Our Digital Atlases are unique products developed to showcase our high-resolution photography.

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Each contains 1,400 or more pictures, with notes on identification and ecology. A Digital Renaissance for Online Art Collections. It's become very apparent that in a world starved of external stimuli, people turned to art online for a visual feast.

A Digital Renaissance for Online Art Collections

Covid-19 has changed a LOT of things and art is not least among those activities that will be changed forever. Bye bye, blockbusters: can the art world adapt to Covid-19? How to give attribution. You can use CC-licensed materials as long as you follow the license conditions.

How to give attribution

One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Here is an example of an ideal attribution of a CC-licensed image: “Furggelen afterglow” by Lukas Schlagenhauf is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. This is an ideal attribution because it includes the: Title: “Furggelen afterglow”Creator: “Lukas Schlagenhauf“—with a link to their profile pageSource: “Furggelen afterglow“—with a link to the original photo on FlickrLicense: “CC BY-ND 2.0”—with a link to the license deed How you attribute authors of the CC works will depend on whether you modify the content, if you create a derivative, if there are multiple sources, etc.

Advanced Image Search. How can I search for images which I know I am allowed to reuse in my work without seeking copyright permission? - Library Help. The best way of finding images you can reuse without separate permission is to use the advanced Google image search engine at You can use the drop-down at the bottom to choose the licence option 'free to use, share, modify even commercially'.

How can I search for images which I know I am allowed to reuse in my work without seeking copyright permission? - Library Help

This looks for Creative Commons Attribution-licensed images and others on an open license. If you limit your search this way in the beginning, you can find images quickly which you can attribute to the creator in your work, without having to contact the creator for any separate permissions. Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse. That means everyone has the freedom to enjoy and reuse these materials in almost limitless ways.

Public Domain Collections: Free to Share & Reuse

The Library now makes it possible to download such items in the highest resolution available directly from the Digital Collections website. Search Digital Collections No permission required. A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions. Ever since The Public Domain Review began we’ve long harboured fantasies about the Metropolitan Museum joining the growing ranks of those institutions (The Getty, New York Public Library, and Rijksmuseum, among others) who have opened up their digital copies of public domain works, making them free from all restrictions on use.

A Selection from The MET’s Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions

Now, after a statement made last week, The MET have done just that — making all digital copies of their incredible public domain collection available under a CC0 license and in high resolution. While included in the vast lot of more than 200,000 images is a wonderful selection of the well known — Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Monet, etc. — we present here our highlights from the perhaps lesser known corners (though we couldn’t resist sneaking in a Paul Klee). Whitney Museum of American Art: Collection. GSG: highlights=Open Content Images. Millions of historic images posted to Flickr. By Robert Miller, Global Director of Books, Internet Archive “Reading a book from the inside out!”.

Millions of historic images posted to Flickr

Well not quite, but a new way to read our eBooks has just been launched. Home - Trove. Selected Collections – Get inspired! – GIF IT UP. BREAKING: MEPs have passed the new EU copyright directive. It's the end of image reproduction fees for historic artworks across the EU. Art historians, we've won.… World Digital Library Home. Partners The Museum of Online Museums (MoOM) Exceptional exhibits are highlighted each quarter.

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Selections from previous seasons are archived here. Please consider joining our MoOM Board of Directors won't you? You'll receive some nice swag and can lord it over your less civic-minded friends. While even the most daring critic would find it difficult to describe computer viruses as "art," there's a certain bizarre artistry mixed among the prankster-ism and the outright cruelty of their creators.

Computer Virus Catalog risks it all in order to capture these devious bugs, sharing what was likely the last image you saw before your hard drive was completely erased. Cultural Institute. Wellcome Images. Getty Research Institute. The Smithsonian. NYPL Digital Collections.