Smithsonian Art-Pocolypse

The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery has made available a collection of over 40,000 digitized Asian and American artworks, mostly never before seen by the public.

Photos of statues, sculptures, reliefs, paintings, you name it. Thousands of prints, metalwork, jewelry… and best of all, the high-res photos are all freely licensed for non-commercial work.Go. Check it out. Create new art from humanity’s cultural heritage. Get something tattooed on yourself, or pick up a new desktop wallpaper.Examples:

Iranian daggers

Chinese Lion-dog incense thing

 

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