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WikiArt

A volunteer-edited visual art encyclopedia with about 250,000 artworks, browsable by movement, style, genre and period, plus a read-only JSON API.

Its tagging by style, genre and movement lets you trace how art changed across centuries, from well-known masters to artists few people have heard of.

APINon-commercial

Open wikiart.org ↗ agent.md

For your project

Official API: Official API · Free tier Free: 4 requests per second, 400 requests per hour, 10 sessions/IPs per hour; paid Startup and Premium tiers raise the hourly limits.
“WikiArt provides a read-only API to obtain information about artist and paintings.” wikiart.org/en/App/GetApi
Key: Needed
Formats: JSON
Data download: No bulk download found
License: WikiArt Terms and Conditions (no open license; copyrighted works shown under fair use) Images of copyright-protected artworks; public-domain works are flagged but WikiArt grants no reuse license
Commercial use: Non-commercial only
“WikiArt presents both public domain and copyright protected artworks. The latter are showcased in accordance with fair use principle: as historically significant artworks as used for informational and educational purposes as readily available on the internet as low resolution copies unsuitable for commercial use” wikiart.org/en/terms-of-use
Credit: Not stated
Embedding: Embedding unclear
Using the website: Free

Read on WikiArt's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms · API docs. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

A request your code or agent can make (add your key):

https://www.wikiart.org/en/api/2/MostViewedPaintings

The API docs are old Google Docs marked obsolete; get keys at /en/App/GetApi, open a session via /en/Api/2/login, page with paginationToken (60 per page), and keep under 400 requests/hour on the free tier.
Do not use WikiArt images commercially; copyrighted works are shown only under fair use as low-resolution copies.
Stay inside the free tier limits (400 requests/hour, 10 IPs/hour) or buy a paid package.
Link back to the WikiArt artwork page and credit the artist.

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/wikiart/agent.md before using WikiArt.

What you can build

An art-history quiz or flashcard app that links to WikiArt pages for each painting
A style-timeline visualizer built from artist and movement metadata (research or educational use)

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