New Digital Library: Prado Museum Offers Free Online Access to More Than 11,500 Publications From the Late 15th to Early 20th Centuries
Exciting news from Spain!
From the Prado Museum (in Spanish, Translation via DeepL)
The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries.
More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloging of 1,400 old books has been revised, and another 220 rare books and 2,000 prints contained in drawing primers have been cataloged. In many cases, these rare books have been written or illustrated with prints by painters such as Dürer, Rubens, Giordano, Anibale Carracci, José de Madrazo, Goya, Paret, Federico de Madrazo, Fortuny, Hogarth, Doré and Toulouse-Lautrec.This virtual space, in addition to favoring the preservation of bibliographic collections by reducing their use and manipulation, has become an essential tool for art historical research and has been incorporated into Worldcat, the largest collective catalog of art libraries and museums worldwide managed by OCLC, and the Art Discovery Group Catalogue.
Direct to Prado Museum Digital Library
Hat Tip & Thank You: Art History News
Filed under: Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Preservation
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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