{"id":156497,"date":"2020-03-23T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=156497"},"modified":"2020-03-17T12:53:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T12:53:58","slug":"paris-museums-put-100000-images-online-for-unrestricted-public-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/03\/paris-museums-put-100000-images-online-for-unrestricted-public-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paris Mus\u00e9es<\/a>, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website<\/a>. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, C\u00e9zanne, and thousands of others. From Hyperallergic<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Paris Mus\u00e9es is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art 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 citing the sources of the image.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMaking 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,\u201d reads a press release shared by Paris Mus\u00e9es.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a treasure trove this is. I was particularly happy to see a bunch of work in here from Eug\u00e8ne Atget<\/a>, chronicler of Parisian streets, architecture, and residents and one of my favorite photographers.<\/p>\n

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Paris Mus\u00e9es, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, C\u00e9zanne, and thousands of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":156498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[915],"class_list":["post-156497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}