Image index of art and architecture
The Image Index of Art and Architecture is a freely accessible image database that contains around 2.2 million photographs on 1.7 million works of art and buildings in Germany and Europe. The operator of this database is the German Documentation Center for Art History - Photo Archive Photo Marburg . The holdings are continuously expanded by the active partners and newly added institutions.
In addition to the company's own holdings, around one million images from around 80 partner institutions are also accessible online. Between 1977 and 2008, 1.4 million photographs from 15 different institutions were published on microfiche by the Photo Archive Photo Marburg as the “Marburg Index - Inventory of Art in Germany” . Digital reproductions of these microfiche recordings and a further 300,000 pictures of the microfiche publications on art and architecture in Egypt , Armenia , Belgium , the Netherlands , France , Greece , Italy , Austria , Portugal , Spain and Switzerland and, in addition, half a million digital copies of photographic recordings or digital original recordings from the partner institutions form the basis of the image index.
