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Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by criddell on Friday March 15, 2024 @07:48AM (#39714466)
This is the first item I tried:

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/08547/Museu_ProvidedCHO_Sta...

The image is only 600x768 pixels. Way too small to be useful. You can't even read the text in the image. The original work is 30x42 cm.

Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by capitainenemo on Friday March 15, 2024 @09:34AM (#39715291)
Ouch. And with a 300 pixel wide watermark at that...
Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by mikae1 on Friday March 15, 2024 @01:47PM (#39718559)
A starting point for exploration, as I said… You usually have to follow links to the online collections of the originating institution to find high resolution files. Some have them, some do not.
Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by capitainenemo on Friday March 15, 2024 @02:11PM (#39718882)
It would be cool if it actually worked like that (as a low resolution preview of things you can get on the actual museum website) - in this case the one offered on the museum website appears to be identical. Same low resolution, same watermark. Perhaps they could save people time by tagging entries that they had already received in low or watermark damaged quality so they could be filtered out of the search.
Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by mikae1 on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:30PM (#39720920)
As I wrote, "Some have them, some do not."

There are lots of possible obstacles to showing high resolution digitizations.

Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by capitainenemo on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:43PM (#39747480)
Yes. I'm just noting as currently implemented, it's not very usable. If they had filtering for the low quality trash, it'd be more useful.
Re:The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use Howe... by criddell on Friday March 15, 2024 @03:03PM (#39719470)
The fact that they would deface the image with a watermark tells me a great deal about the values of the "museum".