Public-domain and openly licensed art, credited in full. Free, at any hour.
EPRIS Museum has no building, no ticket desk and no closing time. What it has is halls of work, each of them in the public domain or shared under an open licence. The older works come from the open collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art in Washington. The newest are photographs and telescope images whose authors chose Creative Commons. Under every plate we print the artist, the date, the licence and where the original lives.
Among the newest halls, The Room Itself is the building you're standing in before you look at a painting: museums and exhibition spaces from Singapore to the Met. Stone and Memory and A Year of Looking Closely are this year's international winners of Wiki Loves Monuments and Wiki Loves Earth, heritage sites and protected land photographed by whoever happened to live nearby, every one of them released under an open licence for exactly this. After that the halls follow the centuries, from Greek marble to pictures made in the last few years, including the halls of sculpture we opened this September, because a screen flattens everything and sculpture is a reminder that art takes up room. Further down, the wall draws every work at its true size: you can set Degas’s Little Dancer against Rodin’s Thinker, or a Chardin the size of a book against a Tintoretto two and a half metres wide.
The museum is also an invitation. If you make photographs or paintings, or want to build an exhibition from what already hangs here, write to us through the open call.
Show us what you are making.
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Museums hang paintings with their centre at 150 cm, so that is the line every painting sits on here. Sculpture stands on the floor instead, its photograph scaled to the real height of the object. Sizes come from the collection records, not from the screen: Hokusai’s wave is the size of a sheet of paper, Vuillard’s window is three and a half metres wide. Every rectangle opens its work.
For curators, writers and institutions proposing a precise encounter with public-domain works.
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AMohamed AbdelzaherGiovanni di AgostinoAlessandro AlgardiAlessandro AlloriAlvesgasparEzra AmesDarabad andromedaFra AngelicoPierre-Jean David d'AngersJames Craig AnnanAndrea AppianiA. H. M Ibnul ArabiArjunfotograferAthichitraHekmat Al-Ayashi
BGiuseppe BaldrighiDmytro BalkhovitinFra BartolommeoAntoine-Louis BaryeJacopo BassanoStudio of Pompeo BatoniGiovanni BelliniAttributed to Bernardo BellottoGian Lorenzo BerniniBerryJRosa BonheurWilliam BonnellSandro BotticelliFrançois BoucherWilliam Adolphe BouguereauValentin de BoulogneEmile Antoine BourdellePaul BrilAgnolo BronzinoÉlisabeth Louise Vigée Le BrunRembrandt BugattiBuggingitoutByrdyak
CGustave CaillebotteWorkshop of Tino di CamainoThiago CampiAntonio CanovaCaravaggioVittore CarpaccioJean-Baptiste CarpeauxGirolamo da CarpiAnnibale CarracciEugène CarrièreLuca CasaleMary CassattAndrea del CastagnoGiovanni Benedetto CastiglioneBernardo CavallinoPaul CezannePhilippe de ChampaigneJean-Siméon ChardinWilliam Merritt ChasePierre Puvis de ChavannesYu Chu ChinJoseph ChinardNathan CimaJar.ciurusClodionLéon CognietAgostino CornacchiniJean Baptiste Camille CorotCorreggioPiero di CosimoAnne Vallayer-CosterCharles CottetGustave CourbetAntoine CoysevoxCarlo CrivelliPablo A. CumillafAelbert Cuyp
DAimé-Jules DalouSven DamerowCharles François DaubignyChristian DavidJacques-Louis DavidDavidweganF. Holland DayEdgar DegasHilaire Germain Edgar DegasDehghanpourpixEugène DelacroixFrançois-Nicolas DelaistreDiego DelsoMaurice DenisDi7aneRobert | Visual DiaryDiliffDimiTalenBattista DossiFrançois-Hubert DrouaisGaspard DughetJules DupréAnthony van Dyck
EThomas EakinsEdunavia1Jan Brueghel the ElderNorberto EstevesEtruscanDe Scott EvansFrederick H. Evans
FErastus Salisbury FieldMino da FiesoleRosso FiorentinoAttributed to Praxiteles or followerJean-Honoré FragonardFrancesco Antonio FranzoniChristophe Fratin
GPaul GauguinGiovanni Battista GaulliOrazio GentileschiJean-Léon GérômeCircle of Lorenzo GhibertiDomenico GhirlandaioRidolfo GhirlandaioGiambolognaLuca GiordanoGiorgioneBartolomeo di GiovanniVincent van GoghTimothy A. GonsalvesAttributed to Francesco GranacciAncient GreekAntoine-Jean GrosAntonio GuardiFrancesco GuardiGuercinoAttributed to Pierre GuérinJean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin
HVilhelm HammershøiTadeusz HareWilliam Michael HarnettMarsden HartleySuzuki HarunobuJakub HałunJulian HerzogThomas HicksUtagawa HiroshigeFerdinand HodlerKatsushika HokusaiWinslow HomerPierre-Paul Prud'honJean-Antoine HoudonCharles Spencer HumphreysHusky221HwbundLaurent de La Hyre
IP e z iTorii Kiyomasu IIJean-Auguste-Dominique IngresGeorge Inness
KVasily KandinskyGertrude KäsebierKcx36Ernst Ludwig KirchnerRenée KoolsLukas KottKramthenik27KritzolinaOnur Kurt
LNicolas LancretNeroccio de' LandiGiovanni Battista LangettiNicolas de LargillierreGiles LaurentHenri de Toulouse-LautrecRafael LemieszekJean-Baptiste LemoyneJean-Louis LemoyneNicolas-Bernard LépiciéFilippino LippiFollower of Fra Filippo LippiFra Angelico and Fra Filippo LippiFra Filippo LippiAurelio LombardoClaude LorrainLorenzo LottoDaniel L. LuLuckhy86Michael Angelo Luna
MBasavaraj MAlessandro MagnascoMaksat79Édouard ManetMarkusmachtphotosBernat MartorellHenri MatisseMehmety11mazJulius Gari MelchersAttributed to Lippo MemmiPierre Jules MèneAntonello da MessinaMichielverbeekMikiponsFederico MilesiJean François MilletSerhii MiroshnykMkrc85Amedeo ModiglianiPier Francesco MolaPiet MondrianClaude MonetAgnes MonkelbaanBasile MorinBerthe MorisotGiovanni Battista MoroniJean Hey, (the Master of Moulins)Yurii-mrDaniel Msirikale
NChettouh NabilCircle of Le NainJean-Marc NattierUgolino di NerioEduardo M. S. NevesBruno NogakiNorbertNagel
OAdrien OlichonJean-Baptiste Oudry
PAugustin PajouGiovanni Paolo PaniniGiovanni di PaoloNishant Sharma ParajuliFilippo ParodiJean-Baptiste PaterRaphaelle PealeRichard PearsonSheldon PeckGiovanni Antonio PellegriniImitator of Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la PeñaNarcisse Virgile Diaz de la PeñaNarcisse Diaz de la PeñaJohn Ritto PennimanPietro PeruginoMykhailo PetskovychAmmi PhillipsMiura-photoGiovanni Battista PiazzettaSebastiano del PiomboWorkshop of Giovanni PisanoCamille PissarroPontormoPotMart186Hossein PourakbarianNicolas PoussinMattia PretiSchool of William Matthew PriorGiulio Cesare ProcacciniPierre Puget
RDietmar RabichRakibulalamkhanbdLeonardo RamosRaphaelRauxilianOdilon RedonMisha RemeGuido ReniPierre-Auguste RenoirRhododendritesHyacinthe RigaudRjcastilloLuca della RobbiaWorkshop of Giovanni della RobbiaHubert RobertHenry Peach RobinsonAuguste RodinAncient RomanSalvator RosaJosé Nuno RosadoAntonio RossellinoBernardo Rossellino or Antonio RossellinoJohann Michael RottmayrThéodore RousseauKer Xavier RousselFollower of Peter Paul RubensPeter Paul RubensSergey Ryzhkov
SLuis Miguel Bugallo SánchezJohn Singer SargentAndrea del SartoSassettaGiovanni Girolamo SavoldoFrank SchulenburgJan van ScorelScosseNiroj SedhaiJacopo del SellaioDesiderio da SettignanoGeorges SeuratTōshūsai SharakuPrasan ShresthaKatsukawa ShunshoSiabanaeiKiril SimeonovskiSmailtnBenjamin SmithMassimiliano SoldaniFrancesco SolimenaAlfred StieglitzRoberto StrafellaBernardo StrozziDeclan SunSteven SunJoseph-Benoît SuvéeSvjetlopis
TJames Webb Space TelescopeGiovanni Battista TiepoloGiovanni Domenico TiepoloJacopo TintorettoWorkshop of Jacopo TintorettoGiovanni Bellini and TitianTitianGiovanni Francesco ToscaniGeorges de La TourTournasol7Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-TriosonJean François de TroyConstant TroyonJohn Henry Twachtman
UArtist unknownAdasat QuriniKitagawa Utamaro
VPierre Henri de ValenciennesRosaria ValentiFélix Edouard VallottonFélix VallottonDiego VelázquezBartolomeo VenetoCaterino VenezianoDomenico VenezianoClaude-Joseph VernetHorace VernetPaolo VeroneseVeroneseAndrea del VerrocchioWorkshop of Andrea del VerrocchioLeonardo da VinciAlessandro VittoriaVolcanicaaaSimon VouetÉdouard Jean VuillardÉdouard Vuillard
WJames McNeill WhistlerClarence H. WhiteGlenn WilksWladyslawThomas WolfDonatello and WorkshopGiovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano and workshopSandro Botticelli and workshopTitian and workshopWorldfootageWowan1978
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Daily, 00:00 – 23:59
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483 works are in the public domain
135 contemporary works are CC BY or CC BY-SA
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