Art Archive is not a museum database. It is not a marketplace. It is a quiet companion for the curious — a place where one painting always leads you gently to the next, across centuries and continents.
Artwork records are imported from open-access museum APIs — The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago — and supplemented by curated entries that link directly to museum collections without redistributing images.
Begin with a painting that calls to you. The archive will quietly show you what came before, what came after, and what stood beside it.