Tate BlockPy Library

From the CORGIS Dataset Project

By Austin Cory Bart acbart@vt.edu
Version 2.0.0, created 11/2/2015
Tags: artwork, art, sculpture, tate

Overview

Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art. The collection embraces all media, from painting, drawing, sculpture and prints to photography, video and film, installation and performance. This dataset is not ordered in any particular way. This dataset has metadata about many pieces from their collection.

http://www.tate.org.uk/about/our-work/collection/about-the-collection

Key Descriptions

Key	List of...	Comment	Example Value
artist.gender	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"Female"
artist.name	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"Abakanowicz, Magdalena"
artist.role	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"artist"
data.medium	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"Burlap and resin"
data.thumbnail	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/T/T12/T12981_8.jpg"
data.title	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"Backs"
data.url	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/abakanowicz-backs-t12981"
dimensions.depth	Float	$MISSING_FIELD	0.0
dimensions.height	Float	$MISSING_FIELD	0.0
dimensions.width	Float	$MISSING_FIELD	0.0
metadata.acquisition date	Integer	$MISSING_FIELD	2009
metadata.creation decade	Integer	$MISSING_FIELD	1970
metadata.creation year	Integer	$MISSING_FIELD	1976
metadata.credit	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"Presented anonymously 2009"
artist.birth.location	String	$MISSING_FIELD	"Polska"
artist.birth.year	Integer	$MISSING_FIELD	1930
artist.death.location	String	$MISSING_FIELD	""
artist.death.year	Integer	$MISSING_FIELD	0