Web Gallery of Art

Logo of Web Gallery of Art.

Type| Virtual museum/Online art database
Founded| 1996; 30 years ago (1996)
Founder| Emil Kren and Daniel Marx
Headquarters| N.A.

Area served

| Worldwide
Services| Virtual art gallery
Website| {{{1}}}

The Web Gallery of Art (WGA) is a virtual art gallery website. It displays historic European visual art, mainly from the Baroque, Gothic and Renaissance periods, available for educational and personal use.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Overview
* 2 Copyrights
* 3 Database
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Overview

The website contains reproductions of over 48,600 works[2] and includes accompanying text on the artworks and artists, accessible through a searchable database. The site is a leading example of an independently established collection of high-quality historically important pictures.

The viewer can select the size of the image; associated music is also included to accompany viewing, and posters of displayed artworks are available. The facility was created by Emil Kren and Daniel Marx.

## Copyrights

Most of the images in the gallery are of works that are out of copyright, as they were all produced before 1900 and all named artists in the collection were born well before 1900. However, copyright for the reproductions displayed on the website may apply within some legal systems. The WGA itself gives the following copyright statement:

> The Web Gallery of Art is copyrighted as a database. Images and documents downloaded from this database can only be used for educational and personal purposes. Distribution of the images in any form is prohibited without the authorization of their legal owner. [3]

Very little information is given on the pages presenting the images, as to who the legal owner of each might be. In the United States, photo reproductions of public domain two-dimensional art are also in the public domain, as affirmed by the decision in the case of Bridgeman Art Library v. Corel Corp., but this is not the case for photo reproductions of three-dimensional art such as sculptures. Copyrights of the sculpture images therefore remain unclear. Copyrights of the text on the website are also unclear; most of the reproductions in the gallery are displayed as catalog items unaccompanied by any explanatory text, but short explanatory notes for artist biographies or important artworks do exist and are unreferenced.

## Database

Number of artworks per period. Data taken from the Web Gallery of Art database downloaded in March 2014

Their database with over 48,600 artworks created by over 4,000 artists is free to download and they have published statistics over their virtual collection that are on their statistics webpage.[4] Artworks installed in churches and from private collections are represented as well as museums. What follows is a list of institutions with more than 50 works represented on their website, based on their downloadable database.

Sortable table  Source Institution | Source Location | # Titles

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assorted private collections | worldwide | 2184
Accademia Carrara | Bergamo | 54
Akademie der bildenden Künste | Vienna | 202
Alte Pinakothek | Munich | 329
Art Institute | Chicago | 107
Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | 84
Baptistry | Florence | 72
Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo | Venice | 68
Basilica di San Marco | Venice | 72
Basilica di San Pietro | Vatican | 61
Bibliothèque Nationale | Paris | 172
British Museum | London | 278
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel) | Padua | 125
Cappella Sistina | Vatican | 329
Cappella Tornabuoni, Santa Maria Novella | Florence | 54
Cathedral of St Bavo | Ghent | 77
Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo | Orvieto | 57
Duomo | Prato | 54
Frans Hals Museum | Haarlem | 72
Galleria Borghese | Rome | 174
Galleria degli Uffizi | Florence | 821
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica | Rome | 130
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti) | Florence | 275
Gallerie dell'Accademia | Venice | 394
Gemäldegalerie | Dresden | 249
Germanisches Nationalmuseum | Nuremberg | 58
Graphische Sammlung Albertina | Vienna | 116
Groeningemuseum | Bruges | 137
Hungarian National Gallery | Budapest | 71
Koninklijke Bibliotheek | The Hague | 59
Kunsthalle | Hamburg | 75
Kunsthistorisches Museum | Vienna | 456
Liechtenstein Museum | Vienna | 229
Lindenau-Museum | Altenburg | 68
Lower Church, San Francesco | Assisi | 61
Mauritshuis | The Hague | 91
Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York | 794
Musée Condé | Chantilly | 66
Musée d'Orsay | Paris | 430
Musée du Louvre | Paris | 1715
Musée d'Unterlinden | Colmar | 58
Musée Rodin | Paris | 60
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | Brussels | 187
Museo Correr | Venice | 53
Museo del Prado | Madrid | 742
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico | Venice | 66
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo | Florence | 105
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo | Siena | 94
Museo di San Marco | Florence | 75
Museo Diocesano | Cortona | 69
Palazzo Ducale | Venice | 132
Museo Nazionale del Bargello | Florence | 163
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte | Naples | 68
Museo Poldi Pezzoli | Milan | 70
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza | Madrid | 256
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | Rotterdam | 77
Museum Mayer van den Bergh | Antwerp | 62
Museum of Fine Arts | Boston | 177
Museum voor Schone Kunsten | Ghent | 78
Národní Galerie | Prague | 91
National Gallery of Art | Washington | 517
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten | Antwerp | 141
National Gallery of Scotland | Edinburgh | 84
National Gallery | London | 545
Nationalgalerie | Berlin | 99
Neue Pinakothek | Munich | 100
Palazzo Vecchio | Florence | 58
Museum of Art | Philadelphia | 54
Pinacoteca di Brera | Milan | 225
Pinacoteca Nazionale | Siena | 73
Pinacoteca | Vatican | 105
Pushkin Museum | Moscow | 68
Residenzgalerie | Salzburg | 77
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller | Otterlo | 69
Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh | Amsterdam | 128
Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam | 674
Rockox House | Antwerp | 58
Royal Collection | Windsor | 167
Royal Library | Windsor | 61
San Francesco | Arezzo | 135
Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari | Venice | 70
Scuola Grande di San Rocco | Venice | 126
Staatliche Museen | Berlin | 795
Staatliche Museen | Kassel | 98
Städelsches Kunstinstitut | Frankfurt | 113
Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici | Vatican | 61
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum | Budapest | 533
Tate Gallery | London | 57
The Hermitage | St. Petersburg | 1106
Upper Church, San Francesco | Assisi | 84
Victoria and Albert Museum | London | 82
Wallace Collection | London | 168
Wallraf–Richartz Museum | Cologne | 153

## See also

* List of artists in the Web Gallery of Art (A–K)
* List of artists in the Web Gallery of Art (L–Z)
* List of sculptors in the Web Gallery of Art
* List of graphic artists in the Web Gallery of Art
* The Artchive
* WebMuseum

## References

1. ↑ "Web Gallery of Art". The University of Texas, USA. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.php?id=491.
2. ↑ "Web Gallery of Art". http://www.wga.hu/index.html.
3. ↑ "Copyright issues related to entirety of the database and to the particular reproductions displayed on the website". https://www.wga.hu/support/mobile/legal.html#wga.hu/frames-e.html?/legal.html.
4. ↑ According to their statistics page in January 2013, all artworks are dated between 1001 and 1900.

## External links

* Official website

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