Art Gallery Datasets

Difficult to understand how to extract artist information reliably. This is a flat data set so to do a proper ETL into a relational database you'll need to normalize as you go. But each piece of information about the artists is stored in a separate array, and the arrays are not all of the same size. So assuming you can rely on the arrays all being ordered the same (dubious assumption) there's still no way to map reliably.

For example, how do I create Artist records with the correct bios assigned to each artist from this record? (Nationality is easy, if the sorting assumption holds).

  {
  "Title": "Zhar-ptitsa, nos. 1-14",
  "Artist": [
    "Léon Bakst",
    "Ivan Bilibin",
    "Leonid Brailovskii",
    "Sergei Chekhonin",
    "L. E. Chirikov",
    "Natalia Goncharova",
    "Boris Grigor'ev",
    "Boris Kustodiev",
    "Mikhail Larionov",
    "Georgi Shlikht"
  ],
  "ConstituentID": [
    300,
    23753,
    23754,
    14602,
    23755,
    2229,
    14632,
    23756,
    3389,
    23757
  ],
  "ArtistBio": [
    "Russian, 1866–1924",
    "Russian, 1881–1962",
    "Russian, 1881–1964"
  ],
  "Nationality": [
    "Russian",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "",
    "Russian",
    "",
    "",
    "Russian"
  ],

Somewhat related and relevant is Artsy's Genome Project[0] which is basically a classification system of (all?) artworks on the Artsy platform which I think includes those not for sale. They publish the full list of "genes" on their github[1] and they have a public API where you can query for artworks by gene[2].

Disclaimer - a friend works there.

[0]: https://www.artsy.net/categories

[1]: https://github.com/artsy/the-art-genome-project

[2]: https://developers.artsy.net/v2

I’ve created some art datasets in addition to those presented:

Bob Ross Paintings: https://github.com/jwilber/Bob_Ross_Paintings

USDA Pomological Watercolors (pretty paintings of fruits): https://github.com/jwilber/USDA_Pomological_Watercolors

What kind of «digital humanities» research has been, or could be done, based on one or more of these datasets?

Hmm, they need the GBIF (https://www.gbif.org/) of these.

How weird that they DO NOT include images.