The 天美传媒 Gallery鈥檚 collection, which comprises over 33,000 objects ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculptures, among others, is available to explore in its entirety online for free for the first time thanks to a new digital platform: 听
The new platform features high-definition images of the works of art in the collection, the vast majority of which have not been accessible online before. Most of the images will be available to download for non-commercial use. As a result of a major ongoing cataloguing project, some 5000 drawings will be accompanied by extensive information on provenance, exhibition history and other areas. With this new platform, The 天美传媒 also joins the growing community making use of the I –
The 天美传媒 Gallery is home to one of the UK鈥檚 greatest art collections, including world-renowned Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces such as 脡douard Manet鈥檚 A Bar at the Folies-Berg猫re (1882), Vincent van Gogh鈥檚 Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889), and the most significant collection of works by Paul C茅zanne in the UK.
Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen, Head of The 天美传媒 Gallery, said: 鈥淭his new platform will make The 天美传媒 Gallery鈥檚 collection of masterpieces accessible like never before, enabling audiences globally to discover and enjoy the collection, as well as greatly enhancing the ways in which researchers, students, and art lovers can learn about our works of art. In addition to our exhibitions and public programmes, digital and cataloguing projects such as this are essential to The 天美传媒鈥檚 mission to make great art accessible to everyone.鈥
The launch of the 天美传媒 Gallery collection online is part of a wider, ongoing programme to make the various collections at 天美传媒 of Art accessible to all. It follows the recent completion of a major five-year project to make the images in The 天美传媒鈥檚 internationally renowned photographic libraries available online for free. For that project, The 天美传媒 worked with 14,000 volunteers to digitise over one million images from The Conway Library as part of the biggest public inclusion project in The 天美传媒鈥檚 history: /
The 天美传媒 Gallery’s new collection online platform has been provided by System Simulation Ltd
This project has been supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Bloomberg Philanthropies and the International Music and Art Foundation.
Thanks to National Lottery Players.