Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum Launches Online Digital Collection of 125,000 Masterpieces

From ArtDaily.com:

As a prelude to its reopening on April 13, 2013, one of the world’s leading museums, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, will launch Rijks Studio, a new online presentation of 125,000 works in its collection which will go live today.
Rijks Studio invites members of the public to create their own masterpieces by downloading images of artworks or details of artworks in the collection and using them in a creative way. The ultra high-resolution images of works, both famous and less well-known, can be freely downloaded, zoomed in on, shared, added to personal ‘studios’, or manipulated copyright-free. Users can have prints made of entire works of art or details from them. Other suggestions for the use of images include creating material to upholster furniture or wallpaper, or to decorate a car or an iPad cover for example. To celebrate this digital milestone, the Rijksmuseum is asking leading international artists, designers and architects to become pioneers of Rijks Studio by selecting one work from the collection and using it creatively to create a new artwork. These will be released in the run up to the reopening of the museum.
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