# 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

Patterns: Classical art, Editorial layout

- Category: Award-winning sites (`sites`)
- Tags: `award-winning`, `scroll`, `typography`
- Official: https://www.getty.edu/tracingart/
- Wunderlust: https://wunderlust.xyz/r/getty-tracing-art
- Image: https://wunderlust.xyz/media/getty-tracing-art-poster.jpg
- Video preview: https://wunderlust.xyz/media/getty-tracing-art.webm
- Added: 2026-11-10

## 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.

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