Collection data
What's inside an archive of 193,000 artworks
Artifact World Gallery is large enough — and catalogued deeply enough — to count. These are data reports drawn straight from the collection: what it holds, what it's made of, and what its shape reveals about the history of public-domain art. Compiled by Alexander Knigge.
- 193,155public-domain artworks
- 27,569identified artists
- 224art movements
- 481museums
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Public domain art by the numbers
What does an open archive of 193,000+ public-domain artworks actually contain? We counted it — by movement, colour, century, subject, artist and museum.
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Color across art history
We mapped every artwork in the archive onto ten colour families. The result is a portrait of the palette of public-domain painting — warm, earthy, and far from balanced.
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The most-represented art movements
Ranked by number of works in the archive, from Romanticism down. The long tail of 200+ movements tells you as much as the head.
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Art across the centuries
A timeline of the archive by date of creation. The collection has a centre of gravity — and it sits squarely in the 1800s.
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