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Greek antiquities, and where to find them online in open access

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The table below lists the online databases in which photographs of Greek vases and other ancient archaeological artifacts  are available. For each collection the licence is indicated according to the vocabulary used by the institution.

You can either click on the name of the institutions to discover their online collections, or on the license to learn more about the terms and conditions of use of their images (when available). To help me complete the list, do not hesitate to comment on this post or to contact me. Click here for a list of over 700 online museum collections

Attributed to the Black Fury Painter, Fragment of a red-figure krater head of Zeus, ca. 400–380 B.C. Princeton University Art Museum (Fair use: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/28113)

Collection Licence
AGORHA (Bases de données de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art) Mixed
Allard Pierson Museum Creative Commons 1.0 (No Copyright)
Art Institute Chicago CCO
Ashmolean (voir aussi John ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford) CCBY ?
Atlas (Musée du Louvre) Copyrighted
Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe Copyrighted / personal, private and non-commercial use
Beazley Archive Pottery Database Copyrighted
Beni culturali CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Beni culturali illecitamente sottratt ?
Birmingham Museum CC0 – Public Domain
Bologna (Museo Civico Archeologico) Copyrighted, acquisition possible
British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Brooklyn Museum CCBY
Cabinet des Médailles : Gallica / online catalog Non commercial, attribution (Gallica) / ?
CC Search CC & public domain
Cleveland museum of Art CC0
Commons CC BY & Public domain
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Copyrighted
Dallas Museum of Art
/ Deaccessioned Artworks		 Fair use ?
Digital LIMC Copyrighted
Digital Montagny CC BY-ND 4.0
Digital Muret CCO, CCBYSA, Copyright
Deerfield Museum Consortium Fair use
Dutch National Museum of Antiquities CCBY
Fondation Gandur pour l’Art Copyrighted
Flickr Mixed
Musée Calvet (Avignon) Copyrighted
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco – Young Legion of Honor limited non-commercial, educational, and personal use only, or for fair use
Fordham University Museum In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted
Getty Museum / CVA 10 Public domain, fair use/CCBY
Hamburg (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe)
Harvard Art museums Fair use
Icar (Iconographie et archéologie pour l’Italie préromaine) Copyrighted
Intesa San Paolo ?
Joconde Copyrighted
Kimbell Art Museum (Texas) Copyrighted
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Public domain unless otherwise stated
LIMC Mostly copyrighted
Met Museum Public domain
MFA Boston Copyrighted, acquisition possible
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Emory) Fair use
Minneapolis Institut of Art  Public Domain (CC-PDM)
Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève Copyrighted ?
Musée des beaux arts d’Angers Copyrighted ?
Musée des beaux arts de Lyon Copyrighted

Museen Schleswig – Holstein und Hamburg (Kiel, Holstein, Hambourg…)

 Copyrighted ?
Musei Vaticani (catalogo online) Copyrighted
Museo Arqueológico Nacional Madrid ?
Museo Barracco (Rome) ?
National Gallery of Victoria Public domain
Nationalmuseets Samlinger CCBYSA, Copyrighted, Public domain
Nicholson Collection (Sydney) Copyrighted (bottom of the page)
Palladia (Musée Saint Raymond) Mostly CCBYSA
Paris Musées (Mostly Petit Palais) Mostly CCØ
PICRYL Public domain
Princeton University Art Museum Fair use, attribution (?)
Réunion des musées nationaux Copyrighted
Royal Ontario Museum Canadian Copyright Act, Fair Use
RISD Museum Public domain (CC0 1.0)
Scala Archives Copyrighted
Smithsonian CC0
Soane’s Museum London Non commercial uses
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE
State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg) “personal, educational and information purposes”
Non commercial, on request ?
Thorvaldsens museum Public domain
Université de Bordeaux Upon request
Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology Copyrighted
Toledo Museum of Art Fair Use (p. 13)
Victoria and Albert Museum CCBYNC ?
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Mostly CC-BY-NC
Walters Art Museum CC0
Wellcome collection Mostly CC BY 4.0
Westfalen museum (collective: Münster, Dortmund, Bochum…) Mostly CC BY-NC-SA ?

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) ca. 375–350 B.C. Associated in style with the Lecce Painter. Met Museum. Public domain

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Fabien Bièvre-Perrin (6 avril 2020). Greek antiquities, and where to find them online in open access. Klinai. Consulté le 17 août 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qm2q

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