At the same time as announcing 200 Paintings for 200 Years, the National Gallery has expanded the online information it provides about its paintings to include bibliographies, exhibition histories, and provenances. This post is about the first two; I’ll write more about provenances soon. Like the 200 online catalogue entries, these are projects that my team has been working on for some time – building on work done at the Gallery years ago.
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News from the National Gallery – 1
Earlier today, the National Gallery launched 200 Paintings for 200 Years – 200 catalogue entries placed online, most for the first time. All in all, this comes to about 2.2 million words; 2,850 images; and references to 8,130 publications, 1,325 archival documents, and 860 exhibitions. As this is something that my team and I have been working on for quite some time, I thought I’d say a bit more about the project.
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