Louvre makes its entire collection available online

Post by sn_master » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 12:21 AM UTC

sofixa wrote: post #158

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Thought of the same, if no one else beats me i'll get started on this in a few hours

To everyone, the list has been created, the rest is easy :D https://github.com/sofixa/awesome-museums-online Tomorrow/early next week I'll throw in the boilerplate ( contributing.md, PR template, and see about organisation/generation/TOC/etc.) and then i'll start adding the mentions from this thread and others i know of. Once it's decent and ready for wide contributions, i'll post on HN, Reddit and co.

Post by ghaff » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 12:28 AM UTC

devchix wrote: post #120

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It's because that one is a copy of the original (still old, but ~100 years posterior to Da Vinci's). According to https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/mnr/MNR00265 its last known owner was Friedrich Welz, an Austrian gallery owner, so the work must have come to Paris postwar to figure out whether it needed to be restituted to a previous owner. The original Joconde is https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl01…

And here's a good accounting of the Mona Lisa's journey in hiding during WW2, and the existence of the other copies. https://www.artcuriouspodcast.com/artcuriouspodcast/1 It's underwhelming in real life, very small, dimly lit, under thick glass, teeming with tourists. Online art is a great endeavor but there's no context for art without the space in which it lives, and in this I think the Musée d'Orsay is the better…

Post by nicbou » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 1:13 AM UTC

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The Peterson Museum (basically the Louvre of automobiles) did the same -or very close- with wonderful video tours of areas that only paying 150$ would get you to see (The Vault). https://www.youtube.com/user/PetersenMuseum/videos The Seattle flight museum also started a series where the main curator would talk about individual planes in long format, way better experience than looking at photos online. https://www.you…

The Tank Museum (formerly Bovington Tank Museum) is also doing a long-running series of "tank chats" on their exhibits. They don't only give some very interesting details (if you're into that sort of thing) but also give some deep historical context behind the vehicles. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBAEOsdxIbLPFEomzphaZ... https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTankMuseum

Post by iamleppert » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 2:32 AM UTC

Post by specialist » Sun, Mar 28, 2021, 4:09 AM UTC

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Why don't these photos to have color calibration targets? https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/163309-REG/Kodak_1907... And maybe some meta data about the camera and settings. I don't recall any online collections using targets. Surely these curation and archivist domain experts record this stuff. I've casually asked a few times, but no leads. -- My partner likes to create master copies. Portrait, still life. I've…

Where do you get these printed? I've searched for places that will do high quality prints and generally have come up empty handed. Maybe it's just something that must be done locally? Has anyone ever raised copyright concerns?