Tracing Art
Getty page on its Provenance Index: a ribbon of paintings and objects waves between the words Tracing and Art
Steal this
A wave of collection images between two title words instead of a thumbnail grid
What it is
It opens on white with the Getty logo; then a wave of ledger pages, paintings and sculptures appears between the two title words. A timeline of dates from 1669 to 1944 follows the scroll, and each image carries its collection caption.
What it’s for
For anyone building a museum or cultural data page who wants to show a huge collection as a visual ribbon, not a list.
Benefits
- thousands of items squeezed into one shape
- timeline with dates tied to the scroll
- collection captions over each image
Caveats
- It is an editorial page about a Getty research project, in English, with little text to read.
