CRANACH DIGITAL ARCHIVE

In October 2009, nine major museums in Europe and the United States began working together on a pilot project to establish methodologies for interdisciplinary collaborative research, sharing knowledge and providing access to art historical, technical and conservation information on paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder in the electronic environment. The project is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a larger initiative to develop new kinds of research tools to facilitate transmission of art historical and conservation information across institutions and international boarders in order to advance scholarship and learning. The Cranach Digital Archive serves to safeguard and provide access to documentary material in archives, it actively promotes collaborative research and it generates new high quality documentary material and tools to explore new research possibilities in the electronic environment.

Und so sieht das dann in Aktion aus:

Die Angaben könnte man sich detaillierter nicht wünschen und auch die Abbildungen zu den einzelnen Werken decken alles ab, was man sich so vorstellen kann: Gesamt-, Detail-, Mikroskop-, Rückseiten-, Infrarot- und Röntgenaufnahmen in hoher Auflösung.

Ein Download der Bilder wird leider nicht angeboten, oder habe ich was übersehen?

(Quelle: metafilter.com)