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The Met Makes Its Images of Public-Domain Artworks Freely Available through New Open Access Policy

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Image and Data Resources

Read The Met's open access policy and resources for public-domain collection data, public-domain images, and copyright or other restrictions.
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From Model to Monument: American Public Sculpture, 1865–1915

October 1, 2004

By Thayer Tolles

Throughout the ages, public sculptures have served as didactic tools, offering moral, patriotic, and cultural instruction. Symbols of pride, they have proclaimed cities as tastemakers in civic and aesthetic matters.
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Art, Protest, and Public Space

October 1, 2021

By Ashley E. Dunn, Constance C. McPhee, and Allison Rudnick

A selection of prints investigate the role art has played in revolutions, protests, and social activist movements from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Art in Public Places, 1973

March 20, 2020
“It seems funny to say it, but long before there was an ‘art world,’ there was art in the world.”
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Jean d'Alluye: Conservation in the Public Eye

May 15, 2014

By Lucretia Kargère

Conservator Lucretia Kargère describes her public conservation of the tomb effigy of Jean d'Alluye at The Cloisters.
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Seeds of Impressionism: Public Parks, Private Gardens with Author Colta Ives

April 18, 2018

By Rachel High

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High sits down with curator emerita Colta Ives to discuss the transformation of Paris during the nineteenth century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks.
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Roman Housing

February 1, 2009

By Ian Lockey

Domestic display is a good example of the conspicuous consumption of the Roman elite, proving that they had wealth and therefore power and authority.
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Roman Copies of Greek Statues

October 1, 2002

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Although many Roman sculptures are purely Roman in their conception, others are carefully measured, exact copies of Greek statues, or variants of Greek prototypes adapted to the taste of the Roman patron.
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Roman Games: Playing with Animals

September 1, 2010

By Jacob Coley

Since the acquisition of exotic creatures was very expensive, they would often be sent to menageries or zoological gardens around Rome to be tamed and trained for public entertainment before they reached the games, where death was inevitable.
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The Met Makes Its Images of Public-Domain Artworks Freely Available through New Open Access Policy

Frequently Asked Questions: Image and Data Resources

See frequently asked questions about acquiring and using Museum images under the Open Access policy.

Image and Data Resources

The Metropolitan Museum of Art creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images documenting the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities. Many of these images are available for personal enjoyment, study, educational purposes, and scholarly publication.

Open Access

Data about The Met collection, including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use.
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Metropolitan Museum Initiative Broadens Access to 400,000 Digital Images</b>

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Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images</b>

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Collecting Practices

The Met collection has more than 1.5 million works of art spanning 5,000 years of culture around the globe. How do these objects make it to The Met?
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View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph

Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)

Date: late 1880s
Accession Number: 13.66

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Great Women Artists

Three painters radically reenvision the role of women artists around the time of the French Revolution.

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Inside the Studio

Decoding the symbolism of Kerry James Marshall’s 2014 paintingUntitled (Studio).