No, it have to do with WikiLeaks, but Wikimedia Commons is familiar with other wiki related phenomenon, Wikipedia, on the basis that both projects of the Wikimedia Foundation.
(A wiki, by the way, a kind of Web site, especially a potentially collaborative site is easy created using wiki software allows you to post, edit and manage people without knowledge of HTML.)
Wikimedia Commons is the Wikimedia Foundation's online free-use media resource over 7,000,000 media - sound, video and of course, pictures.
Among the images of art relating to images - paintings, drawings, etchings, engravings and the like are always more. It has become one of the larger art image repositories on the Web (see my posts on the Athenaeum, ArtMagick AllPaintings Web Gallery of Art, The art renewal Center). You may have noticed links to Wikimedia Commons under the links with a number of my articles about artist from history.
Can the search function above on each side of Wikimedia Commons to locate a particular artist, of course, but one of the beautiful things about the arrangement of the material is that allows a specific type of search, a conducive to artists and works to discover may be new for you.
An initial search for "paintings", brings a page, access other category listings such as paintings of the artist, painting by city, country, period, medium, subject, offers technology and even painting Museum.
One of the most productive in my opinion is "painting by date" category, and from this landing, "paintings of century".
Here it is easy to restrict such as 19 paintings. At this level you are presented with a number of thumbnail images for a variety of paintings of the century, a kind of skim through some of the century's decades artists and a further breakdown. Here's where I to search, by you a decade ago, such as paintings of the 1880s.
Although there is more pressure at this level in each year, the thumbnails for a present particular decade a nice varied selection of works indicate to an array of artists. Although hardly comprehensive makes it a fun way to explore and a selection works by artists both familiar and not.
The images above, for example, all represented on the 1880s paintings page as thumbnails, from top: James Tissot, Henryk Siemiradzki Hector, Carl Spitzweg, Alexander Novoskoltsev, Vincent van Gogh, Willem de Zwart, John Singer Sargent, Jules Euge Ollone, Ilya Repin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edouard Manet, William Merritt Chase.
Click once on the page for a single work you sometimes (but not always can) through a linked mention of the name of the artist in a page of works specially that artists such as William Merritt Chase.
The possibilities for artists discover are extensive.
I give my usual major Timesink warning for this great resources and potentially addictive.
Enjoy!
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