I remember this being shown a few months back, I believe it went offline for a while (mistake me if I'm wrong) but glad to see it back. Any new features added since the last time?
The big problem with Artvee remains that they don’t link back to the image source, which would prove whether it’s properly public domain or not. As it stands you have to take them at their word.
Yes, but how do you know the original image is out of copyright? It’s mostly obvious for older pieces, but for newer ones it’s not always obvious when an artist painted a work. Even with apparently older images, the worry is that the photo is actually of a reworking of an older piece that isn’t out of copyright.
This would be solved by linking each photo back to the originating gallery.
(I contribute to Standard Ebooks – https://standardebooks.org/ – and would like to use Artvee’s imagery for covers, but without a link back to the originating site to check for a CC0 grant it ends up being a trawl through Hathi looking for photographic proof that the image is out of copyright.)
This is pretty neat. I’m currently building a house and was planning to throw up some art pieces. Could you download these and send them to Sam’s Club or something to get them printed or would/is there anything wrong with that?
This looks amazing. I have long wanted to crawl some of the big museum collections, and you've done tons of them. How much space do all the images take up altogether? How many images in total?
Some feedback: The "About Us" etc. links at the bottom are hard to click on the main page, as the infinite scroll moves them as soon as you get there. I also managed to get Chrome to peg a CPU core at 100% and essentially block the tab by scrolling down for a few minutes. A pagination system would make longer (> a couple of minutes) painting browsing sessions much more stable/possible.
I love this site and visit it at least once or twice a week. It’s like going to a museum for me. It helps that I have an insanely high resolution screen which makes everything look beautiful. One of the best parts of the site is that it lets you download even more extreme high resolution versions, which I often do for my favorite artworks. I also love the design and typography of the site.
Thanks a lot, I didn't expect I would enjoy scrolling through old paintings like I did!
Would you consider introducing a comment section? I'm mostly interested in a few words about the context of the painting or understand some weird elements on the painting, and I'm pretty convinced a comment section would do the job.
