Artchive, (formerly "The Artchive") is an online

art gallery An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long ...

. It was established in 1998 by Mark Harden. He contributed to

WebMuseum The WebMuseum, formerly known as "Virtual Louvre" and "WebLouvre", was an early art-related website. The WebMuseum was founded by Nicolas Pioch in France in 1994, while he was a student. It is one of the earliest examples of a virtual museum. The ...

from 1995 before establishing the Artchive. A biography of the founder called it a "top art resource". A user on

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called it "such a valuable website". The Artchive website displays historic artworks with a convenient viewer that allows the size of the image to be set easily as required. It provides a leading online teaching resource for

art Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around ''works'' utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience, generally through an expression of emotional power, conceptual ideas, tec ...

at a university level. The Artchive contains 3,500 artwork by more than 200 artists. It has the same name as a service of SITO. Notable works on the site include ''

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent ''The Fight Between Carnival and Lent'' () is an oil-on-panel painting executed by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. It is a panorama of contemporary life in the S ...

'' by

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder ( , ; ; – 9 September 1569) was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaking, printmaker, known for his landscape art, landscape ...

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