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50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

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Re: 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

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Post by emmelaich »

sotojuan wrote: post #7

This is probably one of the best things I've seen posted in HN. Art books, aside from the actual art, contain essays written by academics or experts not found in Wikipedia or similar. They're also printed in small amounts and fairly expensive (e.g. books on exhibitions are $50-70). This kind of project opens up a lot of knowledge to the general public. Now if we could get more Kenneth Clark books reprinted...

FYI: The Rijksmuseum in Netherlands has their entire collection digitised and available. It was mentioned here a while back.

Re: 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

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Post by acabal »

walterbell wrote: post #4
TuringTest wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's well explained in their terms and conditions page. Material not in the public domain they allow noncommercial reuse with some caveats. https://www.metmuseum.org/information/terms-and-conditions

Thanks. Would be nice if the CC0 images could be found via https://search.creativecommons.org

You can search metmuseum.org itself and they have a filter for public domain paintings. (Use the search bar at the top then after searching click the "The Collection" tab, and the filter will appear.)

Re: 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

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Post by Gargoyle »

sotojuan wrote: post #7

This is probably one of the best things I've seen posted in HN. Art books, aside from the actual art, contain essays written by academics or experts not found in Wikipedia or similar. They're also printed in small amounts and fairly expensive (e.g. books on exhibitions are $50-70). This kind of project opens up a lot of knowledge to the general public. Now if we could get more Kenneth Clark books reprinted...

The Bulletins are nice. I particularly enjoy the "recent acquisitions" Bulletins they put out to showcase the highlights of what they've added in the last couple years. Those cover objects from broad swaths of history, from antiquity right up to near-present day.

They say a bit about each object and usually include something about why it was an important item to add to their collection. Some nice perspectives in there.

Re: 50 Years of Art Books from the Met, for Free Download

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Post by dataslap »

spectaclepiece wrote: post #16
dataslap wrote: post #10

Uploading a scrapy crawler that downloads PDF books to github in a few hours, gonna post the link here

Now I understand why it's so slow.

It's slow cause things are quite large there (just saw a 2 gig book). I'm using delays, don't worry - hence "in a few hours" <3 <3 <3
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