Over 10 000 paintings by 1250 artists
Howie
Introduction:
We have scoured the net for three years to bring to you the essential of
western graphic arts thru the ages in a single entity.
All rolled into one you will find the complete contents of all the major
WWW art collections:
The WebMuseum.
Jim Grattan's Fine art Collection.
C Jackson's Fine art Compendium.
Mark Harden's Fine art Collection.
And countless other Art sites of interest.
As of now: 10047 paintings by 1325 artists.
This unique set is available now.
A rare opportunity to own the best there is.
Look at the bottom of the news for info on how to get this treasure.
This set of 4 ISO 9660 CDs (platform independent then) is assembled the
following way:
CD1: Museum (A-H), contains letter folders A to H.
CD2: Museum (I-P), contains letter folders I to P.
CD3: Museum (Q-Z), contains letter folders Q to Z.
-Each letter folder contains subfolders named after each artist (up to 8
characters).
-Located in each artist's folder are the files corresponding to the
paintings.
-These are named in 8.3 (DOS) format, like so: rembr007.jpg: the 7th
painting, from Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn.
-All the paintings are hi-res picture documents in .jpg format, cropped
and recalibrated in Photoshop 5.0.2.
CD4: Museum Utilities
-Acrobat Reader 3.0.2 for Mac and PC, to read the Portfolio Manual
(PFol401.pdf).
-Indexes:
ArtstIDX.mse: An Excel 97/98 document with every artist in
alphabetical order described like so:
Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (Italian 1518-1594)
ArtstIDX.tab: A tab delimited text document derived from ArtstIDX.mse
for viewing without Excel.
MseumIDX.mse: An Excel 97/98 document with every painting in filename
order described like so:
Filename: tinto002.jpg
Foldername: Tintoret
Author: Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (Italian 1518-1594)
Title: Christ on the Sea of Galilee
Date: 1578
Make: oil-canvas
Location: Nat Art Gal Washington
MseumIDX.tab: A tab delimited text document derived from MseumIDX.mse
for viewing without Excel.
-Museum: A Portfolio 4.0.1 document that links the data on CDs 1, 2 and
3 to the data in MseumIDX.mse on CD 4.
-Portfolio 4.0.1 for Mac and PC.
Handling the data:
System requirements:
Let's face it here, one needs a fast box with plenty of HD space and RAM
to exploit such a treasure.
Mac:
Powermac 100 MHz at least.
150 Megabytes of free HD space.
20 Megabytes of free RAM for Portfolio 4.0.1.
PC:
Pentium 133 MHz at least.
150 Megabytes of free HD space.
16 Megabytes of free RAM for Portfolio 4.0.1.
Installation:
1-Install Portfolio on your HD.
2-Copy the Museum.fdb and Museum.adm together from the CD4 Museum to a
single folder on your HD.
3-Remove CD4 Museum.
4-Double-click on Museum.fdb on your HD.
Now, you're in business:
Read the Portfolio Manual (PFol401.pdf)! I ain't gonna teach it to ya
here.
Every field in Mseum.idx is FULLY indexed, thus searcheable/cross
searcheable.
As you click on a thumbnail to view the full version of a painting,
you'll be prompted to insert the corresponding CD.
The price for the 4 CDs is 120.00$ US. Payable via international money
order (no cash, no checks, no credit card). Your identity will never be
used for any list or correspondance by a third party. This involves a
measure of trust, so paranoïds and idiots abstain. If U are
interested, reply via e-mail to ch...@videotron.ca with your full name
& e-mail. Shortly after, U will receive a full index of the paintings
plus instructions on how to proceed towards owning a real art treasure
trove.