A beacon of digitised art: Pharos consortium builds massive digital database

The Frick Collection in New York has spearheaded a major initiative to digitise its collections and those of 13 other international institutions, including the Courtauld Institute in London, the Getty Institute in Los Angeles and the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Called the Pharos Art Research Consortium, the platform quietly launched last autumn and currently houses 25 million publicly available and searchable images, along with related historical documentation (some of which was previously u