prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,913,000 images of over 125 databases from institutes, research facilities and museums researchable on a common user interface.

Situated at the Institute of Art History of the University of Cologne, prometheus is supported by the non-profit association prometheus e.V. which promotes the ongoing developments of the digital media for science and research.



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Animal Sculptures by August Gaul
Individuals Full of Expression – At the beginning of the 20th century, German sculptor August Gaul presented a new perspective on animals with his sculptures. | more...


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Until now it wasn’t possible to select multiple images in one of your image collections to then delete all of them in one step.

It is possible now. Click on the three dots and you can choose between “Add records to collection” and “Remove records from collection”.

This only applies to your own image collections or to image collections you were invited to for collaboration. Public collections, either readable or writable, are excluded.