More Museums Enable Free Image Access

This fall several museums in the United States and abroad have generously permitted the Perseus Project to make images of their art works freely available to all users of the Perseus Digital Library. Over 1,300 newly available images illustrate Perseus catalog entries on 161 vases and two sculptures. These images illustrate vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington; the Smith College Museum of Art; the Williams College Museum of Art; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; and the Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg. The new sculpture images include a photograph of the Parthenon centaur head now in the Martin von Wagner Museum, Würzburg, and the vibrant color reconstructions of the Parthenon Frieze and Pheidias' Athena Parthenos cult statue, in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

All images in the Perseus Digital Library may be accessed directly in our new Image Browser (see the article here), while catalog entries on relevant objects may be accessed from our home page or from the side bar on each page, by clicking on Art & Archaeology. The catalogs are fully interconnected with the Perseus Digital Library and objects may also be accessed through Perseus' search functions.

We gratefully acknowledge the help of the following individuals in making these materials available: Jacklyn Burns and Kenneth Hamma (Getty), Linda Baden and Adriana Calinescu (Indiana), Michael Goodison (Smith), Alison Easson (Toronto), Diane Agee (Williams), Lynn Mervosh (Wadsworth) and Irma Wehgartner (Würzburg).

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document placed on-line 12/29/99, LMC