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Artchive (formerly "The Artchive")
Founded1998
Founder(s)Mark Harden
URLwww.artchive.com
Image of Bride of the Wind, a 1913 painting by Oskar Kokoschka, from the Artchive.

Artchive, (formerly "The Artchive") is an online art gallery. It was established in 1998 by Mark Harden. He contributed to WebMuseum from 1995 before establishing the Artchive. A biography of the founder called it a "top art resource".[1] A user on Pinterest called it "such a valuable website".[2]

The Artchive website displays historic artworks with a convenient viewer that allows the size of the image to be set easily as required. It provides a leading online teaching resource for art at a university level.[3]

The Artchive contains 3,500 artwork by more than 200 artists.[4]

It has the same name as a service of SITO.[5]

Notable works on the site include The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.[6]

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References

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  1. ^ "Mark Harden". Museums and the Web. Archives & Museum Informatics. 1999.
  2. ^ "Artchive". Pinterest.
  3. ^ "Mark Harden's Artchive". University of Wisconsin–Madison.
  4. ^ "Artchive Artwork Search". Artchive.
  5. ^ "SITO-Artchive". SITO.
  6. ^ "The Fight between Carnival and Lent". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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