Huge Art collection

April 20, 2004 3:24 PM

The Art Millenium "The Encyclopedia was founded in May 1999. It contains more than 15,000 pictures and overviews of about 1000 artists. Total size is 2.5 Gigabytes" I was there in their Collections looking at Graphics (Dore, Beardsley, Cranach, Durer, Giger), specifically all of Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonte. I have not begun to scratch the surface.
posted by vacapinta (4 comments total)

nice, but sloooow
posted by amberglow at 4:16 PM on April 20, 2004

Millennium
posted by TBoneMcCool at 4:19 PM on April 20, 2004

Very cool.
posted by y2karl at 6:18 PM on April 20, 2004

Yeah, the site is very graphics heavy. It even uses graphics for much of the navigation and indexes. Its not a very well-known site, oddly, but has tons and tons of content. And the graphics and its obscurity mean that its poorly indexed, even by Google.

I suggest this as something you put in your bookmarks and come back to when you are trying to find something specific or have lots of time and patience.
posted by vacapinta at 6:27 PM on April 20, 2004