The Louvre museum online collection
The Louvre museum publishes high resolution images of artworks with English descriptions through the online Atlas database
The online collection of the Louvre museum comprises high-resolution pictures and scans of artworks. The Atlas database covers some 30,000 objects on display in the museum. Through the database, artworks are more easily accessible for the broader public as people can see images of artworks and read English descriptions online. Users can search items through keywords, departments, rooms, and recent acquisitions. The following are available online:
- Egyptian Antiquities
- Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
- Oriental Antiquities
- Byzantium Arts and Christianity in the East
- Islamic Arts
- Graphic Arts
- Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Decorative Arts
- Paintings
- Sculptures of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modern Times
- Garden Sculptures
- Louvre History Department
- Musée national Eugène-Delacroix
- National Museums Recovery
Users can find these artworks and the explanatory texts that are usually shown in the museum exhibits, compiled under the authority of the museum curators, in the online collection of the Louvre museum. The continuously updated database of the Louvre is one of a growing number of online collections of artworks using cultural open data.
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