Searching the Google Art Project
April 10 2012
Picture: Google/Gemaldegalerie
While we all love the Google Art Project's high-resolution images, there's no doubting the site could do with the input of a few art historians. A reader writes:
What is disconcerting about GoogleArtProject is that they list artists alphabetically under their first name. So if one cannot immediately recall Le Brun's first name as he is not listed under L or B but under C for Charles, one is left guessing and sorely searching...
Update:
While it is indeed odd that artists are listed under their first name in the main index, 3PP points out that the search box works fine:

- Filed Under:
- Research
Categories
- Research
- Exhibitions
- Auctions
- Discoveries
- Conservation
- Heroes of art history
- 15th Century & Earlier
- 16th Century
- 17th Century
- Master of the Blue Jeans donated to Pinacoteca cantonale G. Züst
- Imminent Release: The Cultural Work of the Early Modern Dutch Portrait - Amalia van Solms and the Shape of the Self in European Art
- Aert de Gelder conserved by Kremer Collection
- Portraits of Sir Francis Bacon
- Pierre Rosenberg on Poussin
- More ...
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
- Study the The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation Archive with the PMC
- Funded PhD to Study Burlington Archive
- Recent Release: Biltmore House - The Interiors and Collections of George W. Vanderbilt
- Norwegian Bank Foundation acquires $9.2m Beckmann
- National Gallery seeking £375m to Buy Modern Art & Create Endowment Fund
- More ...
- 21st Century


