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.
Image series of the week
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Every week, our homepage changes the top image bar and gives a first visual impression of the image series of the week, with which we want to show you the range that prometheus has to offer. They are accessible to everyone. The themes are mostly inspired by current exhibitions, for example this week by the “Gregory Crewdson. Retrospective” at the Kunstmuseum Bonn. We either take something from the artist’s work, such as this week’s photo series “Beneath the Roses” by American photographer Gregory Crewdson, or an aspect of the exhibition, such as last week’s “Faces in Art. Medium of Expression, Self-Portrayal, Communication”. We look at what material is available in the image archive and create a public image collection in the image archive that is available to anyone with access to prometheus. There, you will find additional images related to the topic.
In our weekly series of images, we limit ourselves to eight works in the form of thumbnails. You can click on these to view the corresponding data record in the image archive.
