There's a handy tool to download images from there: https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
I've mostly used Google's arts and culture site to download hi-res images of famous pieces of art for a side project of mine.
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#12Seriously asking this - How did it survive so far?
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#13Thanks for the reminder, I'd forgotten about this website. My favorite post on there is "Exploring the Ripley Scroll: A recipe for making the Philosopher's Stone" [0]. Now I'm feeling motivated to make a painting inspired by the Ripley Scroll. There's something so whimsical and delightful about it. I really wonder what the creator was thinking when they were making it. I love all these arcane magic systems.
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#14It’s been around since 2011. I think it was one of the earliest examples of “infinite zooming” tiled image websites. (See https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Igdyv )
I use this feature in my painting class all the time. The ability to zoom in so close to a painting is incredible. In many ways, it offers a better learning experience for a young painter than seeing the paintings in real life.
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#15Seriously asking this - How did it survive so far?
In my opinion, it's usability has decreased over the years. Predictably this is a result of Google adding new features like pre-curated collections.
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#16I first stumbled on this site over half a decade ago, and it's nice to see it's still going. There's genuine effort to collaborate with locals to produce curated content - see for example the city showcase of Lagos, Nigeria: https://artsandculture.google.com/project/creative-lagos I unironically think it's Google's greatest contribution to media in the 2010s.
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#17Seriously asking this - How did it survive so far?
Can mostly survive on autopilot, & it's s0o0o0o much easier to shut something down for not having > X0 million users, than it is to shut it down a clear charity case because it doesn't make money. (it's not supposed to!)
After 7 years there, the greatest lesson I walked away with is motivated reasoning really matters.
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#18The mobile app used to have a feature where you could upload a selfie and it would search for a painting that looked like you. It did a really good job. Not sure if you can do that on the website.
> The mobile app used to have a feature where you could upload a selfie
> Not sure if you can do that on the website.
You absolutely can: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Captu...
All major current browsers support it: https://caniuse.com/stream
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#19So at what point will Google remove this?
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#20There's a handy tool to download images from there: https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
I've mostly used Google's arts and culture site to download hi-res images of famous pieces of art for a side project of mine.
You mean, directly? I remember seeing a few download links for some images, but many of them aren't directly available (random example: [0])
But otherwise yes, it's one of the best online archive. Wikimedia & some museums's websites are good sources of high-quality material as well.
[0]: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nicolaas-rubens-wear...