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quick question: does anyone know of a service that serves free (as in »free beer«) art (paintings, photography, illustrations etc.) to download in high resoluti
by hesslau 13y ago
quick question: does anyone know of a service that serves free (as in »free beer«) art (paintings, photography, illustrations etc.) to download in high resolution so you can print them yourself?
- GotAnyMegadeth 13y agopiratebay?
- mapleoin 13y agoWikipedia? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Van_Gogh_Self-Portrait_with_Straw_Hat_1887-Metropolitan.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Van_Gogh_...
- rorrr2 13y agoGoogle images is great for that. Search by keywords, then set the minimum resolution under "Search Tools". 8 megapixels should be enough for a good print. 20 megapixels - for huge ones.
- tagawa 13y agoMaybe this: http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ http://www.fromoldbooks.org/ ? Might not be as high resolution as you'd like but still an interesting collection of art from old books.
- contingencies 13y agoNot a unified one, however most museums have decent interfaces to their collections these days. I would highly recommend the Met Museum in New York's catalog, for instance. Some produce limited resolutions or force you to decode some kind of image-slicing, but in general you can get super high resolution copies for free that would be suitable for personal use.
- jedahan 13y agoAnd if you want an api to the met museums art... I made http://scrapi.org http://scrapi.org . Full disclosure: I work there.
- shadeless 13y agoIf you're into Japanese art check out John Resig's Ukiyo-e, some images have pretty high resolution: http://ukiyo-e.org/ http://ukiyo-e.org/
- z-factor 13y agogallerix.ru has a lot of relatively hires art: http://gallerix.ru/album/Museums http://gallerix.ru/album/Museums
- AsymetricCom 13y agoInternet is still kind of free. Just don't tell anyone that you're doing this.