Colour Correct Digital Museum on the Internet

Showing pictures of famous artists to students is a fundamental task to teach fine art history. Images found on the Internet are a major resource of such pictures that can replace older albums of fine art collections. The colours reproduced in Internet images are, however, in many instances not correct. Images have been collected both from museums’ publications and from the Internet, and some critical areas of the images have been colorimetrically evaluated. Investigations have shown that in some databases the colours of the images are highly distorted. Before using pictures from one or the other database, one should compare the reproductions downloadable from different sources, and select – according to the aesthetic feeling of the user – the artefact that one can assume to come nearest to the original. It is a great pity that the artefacts in the databases are not accompanied with the necessary background information (metadata) that would provide some information on the taking ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: HCI
• Authors: János Schanda, Cecilia Sik-Lányi
• Keywords: Fine Art, Fine Art History, HCI 2007, Human Computer Interaction, Image