PHAROS General Meeting

PHAROS is an international consortium of leading art historical photo archives. Founded to advance the accessibility and scholarly use of photographic documentation of works of art, PHAROS promotes collaboration, standardization, and innovation in the digital humanities. Current member institutions are based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe and include the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History (Rome), the German Documentation Center for Art History – Bildarchiv Foto Marburg (Marburg), the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC), the Fondazione Federico Zeri (Bologna), the Frick Art Research Library (New York), I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence), the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (Florence), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (London), the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History (The Hague), the Warburg Institute (London) and the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven).

After the launch of artresearch.net, a platform that provides access to artworks and architectural images from the member institutions, using cutting-edge AI and expertly curated metadata, the consortium now comes together for a general meeting in Florence. Please note that this is an internal event.