If you are looking for art – and I speak fine Art that the capital “A” – Metropolitan Museum is a place to find it. And you just can’t Visit the museum while you are in New York (To look at art) You can also upload almost half a million digital images of genuine, Snob’s approved works to the museum’s online archives.
Met hosts 492,000 high resolution images, most of which are public areas, so you can use them any non-commercial purpose-all to print a t-shirt James Johnston from Straiton in it, to hang a poster The punishment of St. Jerome On your wall reminds you of the importance of self-help (I’m not kink-skirt).
How to download art from Metropolitan’s online collection
Getting your mitts on that sweet, sweet art could not be easier:
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Click this link t Met collection.
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Browse the different sections to find one that appeals to you.
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Click the painting, sculpture or chest decoration your choice.
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Find “OA’s public area“As you can see below, the picture below Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson with her dog. This means that it is available under MET’s open access to the initiative, and you can use it for free (as long as it is a non-commercial purpose).
Credit: Metropolitan Museum
How the “public area” on the right affects paintings in museums
Browse the MET collection, and others, such as Getty Museum ‘S, has made me think who really owns art. The answer is kind of awkward: physical objects (paintings, sculptures, the shaped lyrics of human skulls) Met is owned by the museum itself. It intellectual property (What art shows) first belongs to its creator, but ultimately to everyone: In the United States, IP ownership returns to the public – anyone/all – 95 years after work or 70 years after the author’s death if the work was created before 1978.
What do you think so far?
Rights created – a work of art (or something else) There is a separate thing: who took the picture to own the picture, of course 70 years after their death. You can go to the museum yourself and take a picture of public work and use it as you wish, but MET owns the rights to the pictures you download. They have simply decided to release these rights to anyone who is not going to make a buck for their work.
