The Metropolitan Museum of Art has digitized and made 400 thousand exhibits publicly available

A year ago, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art embarked on an ambitious project - to fully digitize and make its permanent collection publicly available. A very generous step for the third most visited museum in the world.

Now, if you want to use the images for commercial or artistic purposes, you will not need to worry about copyright infringement — and the Metro collection will have a place for art lovers to roam, because it has more than one and a half million exhibits.

To date, more than 400 thousand works of art in various genres have been digitized. The collection includes antique and modern art, painting and photography, sculpture, historical documents, dresses and even furniture. Users can search for the works they are interested in by the author's name, the time of creation or the materials used.

Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx. Greece, V century BC.

Bonjo — tube with lateral exhalation, Ekonda people, 1915

David Kaspar Friedrich "Two contemplating the moon", 1819

Max Beckman "The Beginning", 1946-1949.

A curved harp. 1390-1295 before our era.

Sculpture of the three graces in marble. Rome, II century BC.

Boris Grigoriev "Model", 1926

Jean Tangley "Narva", 1961

Arkhip Kuindzhi "Red Sunset on the Dnieper", 1905-1908.

Photo: Shinichi Suzuki, 1870

Necklace made of gold, turquoise and lapis lazuli, Ancient Egypt, IV—III centuries BC.Lotus-shaped bowl, Ancient Egypt, XX—VII centuries BC.

"Theodosius arrives at Ephesus", France, XIII century.

Henri Rousseau "The Lion's Meal", 1907

Henri Matisse "Olive trees", 1906

"Lion" is a marble statuette, IV century BC, Greece.

The head of King David, France, XII century.

Georgia O'Keefe "Cow's Skull: Red, White, Blue", 1931Sitting figure, the Caroline Islands, late XIX — early XX century.

Louise Bourgeois "Eyes", marble. 1982

CJSC Gongen, Japan, XI century.

Egon Schiele "Self-portrait", 1914

Pablo Picasso "Reading at the table", 1934

King Sahure and the god of Nome, Ancient Egypt, 2458 before our era.