PHAROS

PHAROS is a consortium of leading art historical photo archives based in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. 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 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 (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). More institutions will be added in coming months.

Artresearch.net is a new platform that provides access to artworks and architectural images using cutting-edge AI and expertly curated metadata. It offers researchers, students, and the public free access to up to 31 million images spanning centuries of artistic production.
Developed by PHAROS over more than ten years, the project brings together image collections from leading art-historical photo archives in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Funded by the Kress Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and supported by the PHAROS partners, Artresearch.net unites expertise in art history, information science, digital humanities, and art law. The platform is built on ResearchSpace, a free and open research system.