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I've mostly used Google's arts and culture site to download hi-res images of famous pieces of art for a side project of mine.

• mbivert 2y ago
  You mean, directly? I remember seeing a few download links for some images, but many of them aren't directly available (random example: [0]) But otherwise yes, it's one of the best online archive. Wikimedia & some museums's websites are good sources of high-quality material as well. [0]: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nicolaas-rubens-wearing-a-coral-neckless-c-1619-peter-paul-rubens/HwGqFHTJrndvXw https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nicolaas-rubens-wear...
  • Palomides 2y ago
    many of the high res images on wikipedia/wikimedia of notable paintings come from this google project (the category for it has ~25,000 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Google_Arts_%26_Culture https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_Googl... )
    • Daub 2y ago
      The super high resolution photos are taken with a special rig. Details: https://www.dpreview.com/news/1947958268/google-art-camera-uses-robotic-system-to-take-gigapixel-photos-of-museum-paintings https://www.dpreview.com/news/1947958268/google-art-camera-u... From what I recal, the software used for stitching is more like Excel than Photoshop.