Announcing the Availability of Images from the Berlin Museums

November 12, 1998

The Perseus Project is pleased to announce new photographs of sculptures and vases from the Berlin Museums (Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz) that are now freely available to all users of the Perseus Web site. Over 1600 images illustrate preexisting Perseus catalog entries on 54 sculptures (e.g. the Berlin Goddess) and 49 vases (e.g. the name vase of the Berlin Painter) from Berlin's important collections.

The art works in the Berlin Museums, along with those from other museums, are found in the Art & Archaeology catalogs, which may be accessed from our home page or from the side bar on each page, by clicking on Art & Archaeology. Within the sculpture browser one may search for objects organized by collection, context, period, region, class, material, scale, sculptor or associated buildings. Similarly, within the vase browser one may search for objects organized by collection, ware, shape, painter, potter, context, period or region. Both catalogs are fully interconnected with the Perseus digital library and objects may also be accessed through Perseus' keyword and English index searches. For example, a keyword search for dogs on vases reveals 78 objects, of which three are in Berlin.

The Perseus Project thanks Prof. Dr. Wolf-Dieter Heilmeyer, Dr. Ursula Kästner, and Dr. Gertrud Platz, of the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and Dr. Karl Heinz Pütz of the Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz for making these materials available on the Web.

We welcome your feedback and any comments on how you are making use of these resources.

Please report any problems to the Perseus webmaster.