You can browse the art of the late-Middle Ages to the present day via the collections’ website. The collections of the KMSKA, MSK Gent, Musea Brugge and Mu.ZEE contain art in all its various forms: paintings, statues, drawings, prints, sketches, collages, stained-glass windows, textile art, photographs, videos, installations and so forth. The collections are searchable by these types of art, but also via specific materials, from acrylic to zinc. Are you searching for village views, portraits, or portrayals of animals, or do you prefer abstract work? You can further refine your search via the subjects.
In the general search window you can do a search request across all fields, or limit it to ‘artist’, ‘object number’, ‘description’ or ‘title’. These additional parameters help with a targeted search on a specific work.
Nearly every object is provided with a high-resolution photo in a IIIF window, by which you can zoom in on the smallest detail. In addition to the basic information (title, artist, date, period, collection) the detail page of a work often displays a short description, the technical characteristics, keywords, themes, and links to linked open data.
Each page, moreover, always leads to other works via diverse routes. As such, you can continuously explore further into the rich and diverse collections of the four visual-arts museums.
In the overview with artists you will find background information on the life and work of the most famous artists, with references towards interesting registers with RKD, VIAF and Wikidata. On an artist’s page the oeuvre of an artist transcends the boundaries of the various collections.
The collections’ website uses the digital VKC infrastructure, which consists of the Datahub, inter alia, for the retrieval of data and from the Imagehubs of the museums for displaying the images. This infrastructure is managed by Hero Solutions. Glue underwrites the development of the collections’ website.
All works displayed on the website are available for re-use, on the condition that they are free of copyright. The metadata and the images of these works can be manually or automatically requested for use in the class, for scientific research, or simply for your own pleasure. Images in the highest resolution can be requested at artinflanders.be, an initiative of meemoo.
For more information, contact An Seurinck (Flemish Art Collection).