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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Daniel Spoerri
Fallenbilder – Tableaux Pièges – Daniel Spoerri, the Swiss artist of Romanian origin, became famous as the founder of Eat Art and for his ‘tableaux pièges’. | more...


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In your personal profile, you have 16 settings options that you can use to customise it to your preferences. To do this, first click on your name in the top right-hand corner and then on Settings.

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