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Culture Fine Art History
Mark Peters : June 29th 2007 - 18:56 CET
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 Culture Fine Art History : The Mile Project assembles the knowledge and expertise of partners from the picture library industry across Europe to focus on metadata classification, metadata search & retrieval, and Intellectual Property Rights. Developed by The Bridgeman Art Library, MILE aims to enhance the use, accessibility & trade of digital content in order to stimulate and exploit cultural heritage throughout the European Union. The Bridgeman Art Library is the world’s richest and most comprehensive source of cultural and historical art images, and supports MILE’s goals for the growth and perpetuity of Europe’s cultural heritage. The Art Library works with museums and art galleries to make the best art available for reproduction.
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 Culture Fine Art History
The collection ranges from pre-historic images to works by leading contemporary artists covering all media and Eastern and Western art across 8000 global locations. Our subjects are as diverse as science, historical photography, politics, religion, medicine, sport and travel. The website is updated daily with new images and we are becoming particularly strong in American History in addition to a growing collection of works by Hispanic and African-American artists. International Offices are The Bridgeman Art Library International (USA), Bridgeman Giraudon (France), Bridgeman Giraudon (Germany).
The Bridgeman Art Library
The Bridgeman archive is renowned for being the world’s richest, most reliable and most prestigious source of fine art images covering every media, period, movement and style throughout the history of art. Every subject, concept, style and medium is represented, from the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections. Fine art is just one of the sources of images; design antiques, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, anthropological artefacts and many others also feature in the collection. We aim to make these images accessible for every user; each one has been catalogued with full picture data and key-worded to make searching easy, even for those with little art knowledge. Our website allows you to explore the collection in depth with quick and advanced search facilities. We also provide a full research service whereby our expert researchers can select images to your requirements.
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