Base Joconde

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Woodcut by General Andoche Junot , 19th century.

The Base Joconde (German database Joconde) is a non-commercial database of the French Ministry of Culture ( Direction des musées de France ).

The Joconde lists the art holdings of French museums in the form of an online inventory. Joconde unites three databases on fine arts , archeology and ethnology under one surface . The name refers to one of the most famous paintings shown in France, the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris , known in French as La Joconde .

history

The ideas of the French Revolution also provided for free access to national cultural goods. In the Chaptal Decree, a distribution key for sculptures and painting collections was created to ensure equal access to these cultural assets. A database that inventories the sculptures and painting collections was created as early as 1975 and offered on the French Minitel platform from 1992 . In 1995 the database went on the World Wide Web . In 2004 the service was expanded to include data on archeology and ethnology.

purpose

The museums of France were given four permanent functions by Law 2002-5 of January 4th, 2002:

  • Preservation, restoration , research and completion of your collections
  • Ensure access to the collections for the general public
  • Development and implementation of training measures and
  • Ensuring broad, equal access to culture for everyone
  • Contribution to the further development of knowledge and research on culture and its dissemination

Functions

Joconde manages 427,500 objects from 60 national museums in France, 245,200 of which have at least one image (as of April 26, 2010). It offers convenient search functions ( index structure , thesauri ) and links. Exhibitions and themed tours are offered online. The database offers virtual exhibitions that are intended to encourage visitors to visit the real exhibitions in the respective museums. The images initially appear in low resolution and are accompanied by detailed scientific text documents with bibliographies. The announcement is only in French .

Web links

Commons : Images from Joconde  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Base Joconde
  2. ↑ Catalog des collections des musées de France (Base Joconde)
  3. ↑ Loi n ° 2002-5 du 4 janvier 2002 relative aux musées de France