Musée du Louvre Launches Atlas Online Database in English
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Pyramide du Louvre (nuit)
Architect: I.M. Pei
© 2005 Musée du Louvre/Claire Trochu |
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Seated Scribe
Egyptian, Old Kingdom, Dynasty IV (?), ca. 2620-2500 B.C.
Painted limestone
H: 53.3 cm (21 in.)
© 1999 Musée du Louvre/Georges Poncet |
By STAN PARCHIN
July 29, 2009
Paris' Musée du Louvre announced today the launch of its first-ever English-language version of Atlas, its free-of-charge online collections database. Supported by €300,000 in grants raised by American Friends of the Louvre, it goes live tomorrow morning.
Some 22,000 works of art, accompanied by high-resolution images and information about their specific locations within the museum, are now described in English on the Louvre's Web site. Since its debut in 2003, Atlas has served as an interactive catalogue for 26,000 of the museum's 35,000 works created by some 5,500 artists in a variety of media. The detailed entries of this important research tool's translated version represent 80% of Atlas' original catalogue.
The Musée du Louvre's eight curatorial departments have a presence on Atlas: Near Eastern; Egyptian; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculptures; Decorative Arts; Paintings; and Prints and Drawings.
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