Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online
detail 'The Wise Virgins: Second Wise Virgin (Bartsch 78)'
Schongauer, Martin (1450 -1491) engraving
“Making this data available guarantees that our digital files can be freely accessed and reused by anyone or everyone, without any technical, legal or financial restraints, whether for commercial use or not,” press release Paris Musées.
Paris Musées includes fourteen municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs. Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and crediting the sources of the image.
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