Creative Commons

A lot of art falls in the pub­lic domain. Now the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Muse­um of Art has made it eas­i­er for you to use some of it. (And by “some” I mean “quite a lot”.)

For exam­ple, a high-res­o­lu­tion pho­to of Van Gogh’s paint­ing Sun­flow­ers is avail­able for me to use free of charge. You too.

And if Munch’s The Scream is more your cup of tea, well, they’ve got you cov­ered there too.

Have a look for your­self. If one of the 400,000+ pieces of art in their cat­a­logue strikes your fan­cy, check for the Pub­lic Domain icon (a lit­tle 0 in a cir­cle) and the down­load link. It appears that the pub­lic-domain con­tent com­pris­es 375,000 images, which, I think you’ll agree, is a lot.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to look at some J. M. W. Turn­er paintings.

---

Thanks, The Met!

Thanks to my friend Kel­ly for point­ing out this Engad­get arti­cle on the topic.

Save

Save

Save

Save

Save