Friday, February 15, 2019

Over 45,000 Digitized Works of Art Are Released to Public By The National Gallery of Art


As art museums all over the world is getting used to the openness of the Internet, they continue to digitize their archives. Before this, viewing a piece of art had to be months in planing, traveling etc., now it’s becoming more and more effortless to view and learn about famous artworks by the world’s master painters, sculptors, and printmakers.
So far, with over 45,000 digitally archived artworks, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC regularly update their featured image collections, which are “designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.” Titled according to theme—such as Self Portraits, Mythology, and Nature and Ecology—the collections are packed full of free images for art lovers to search, browse, share, and download via NGA Images.

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