(20 Sep 2024) The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries.
More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloging of 1,400 old books has been revised, and another 220 rare books and 2,000 prints contained in drawing primers have been cataloged. In many cases, these rare books have been written or illustrated with prints by painters such as Dürer, Rubens, Giordano, Anibale Carracci, José de Madrazo, Goya, Paret, Federico de Madrazo, Fortuny, Hogarth, Doré and Toulouse-Lautrec.
This virtual space, in addition to favoring the preservation of bibliographic collections by reducing their use and manipulation, has become an essential tool for art historical research and has been incorporated into Worldcat, the largest collective catalog of art libraries and museums worldwide managed by OCLC, and the Art Discovery Group Catalogue.
Library Journal infoDOCKET has the news here.
