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York Project
About Directmedia has provided 10,000 paintings from the 'York Project DVD "10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei" (10,000 Masterpieces of Painting) and the associated metadata to... -
Wikimedia Commons Paintings
An index of the paintings available on Wikimedia Commons. -
Wikimedia Commons
Over 2 million freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute -
Victoria & Albert Museum Collection Records
A REST API to search the V&A's collection. Sadly restricted to academic and noncommercial use. Search for items by keyword, artist/maker, collection, year,... -
VADS
"over 100,000 digital images free for use in education" -
UK National Gallery Data
Various RDF datasets from the National Gallery. Some appear to be under an original-BSD-style licence, which I believe amounts to an attribution licence. -
UK Government Art Collection
A screen-scraped RDF/SPARQL database of artworks in various UK government collections. See here for details of how the data was assembled:... -
Technologies of Enchantment: Early Celtic Art in Britain
"The project team has compiled a comprehensive database of all Celtic art found in Britain to date. This includes excavated finds, and finds recently reported to the Portable... -
Location And Description of Public Art In Seattle
"Permanently sited public art works funded by percent-for-art ordinance" -
Powerhouse Museum Collection | data.australia.gov.au – beta
A database of over 70,000 objects in The PowerHouse Museum in Australia. -
The Noun Project
The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world's visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way. More... -
National indicators 9, 10 and 11: baselines for local authorities
"NI 9 Use of public libraries NI 10 Visits to museums and galleries NI 11 Engagement in the arts" -
JISC OpenART
A project of the University of York and the Tate to create linked data for a dataset of "The London Art World 1660-1735". Currently in progress, with the ODbL as forerunner for... -
ICONCLASS - Multilingual Thematic Classification
About From the website: This is an experimental service that makes the ICONCLASS Iconographic Classification system available as linked-data using the SKOS vocabulary. This... -
Grants for the Arts Awards - Arts Council England
"Hard commitments awarded to successful grant applicants. Dataset includes unique reference number, name of recipient, project name, amount awarded, date of award, region, local... -
Freebase Visual Art
Data regarding artworks, artists, museums and other visual art subjects. Tab-delimited data dump available. Licence is CC-BY, although the attribution page says "Many Freebase... -
colr.org
User-generated tagged colour palettes. With a nice API. -
Dolores Labs Blog » Our color names data set is online
Comma-Separated Value dataset of 10,000 colours and the labels applied to them by Amazon Mechanical Turk clickworkers. Archive contains the dataset and useful accompanying... -
Color Inspiration from the Masters of Painting
An article showing colour palettes taken from famous paintings, with more in the comments. This isn't really a package, but it's a good resource and a great illustration of...