# Web Gallery of Art

> A searchable archive of European painting, sculpture, decorative arts and architecture from the third century to the early twentieth century.

The [canonical Web Gallery of Art](https://beta.wga.hu/) is authoritative. Generated Markdown files are bounded, session-independent alternate representations of published catalogue records.

To retrieve Markdown, take the record ID after the final hyphen in a canonical artist or artwork URL. Use the artist ID in the pattern https://beta.wga.hu/agents/artists/{id}.md or the artwork ID in https://beta.wga.hu/agents/artworks/{id}.md.

This document does not contain or provide a bulk export of the catalogue. Artwork reproductions may carry rights belonging to the holding institution; do not infer a reuse licence from their availability.

## Discovery

- [Canonical sitemap](https://beta.wga.hu/sitemap.xml): Discover current published artist and artwork records.
- [About and terms of use](https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about): Read about the collection, attribution and usage conditions.