The Long Gallery

An atlas of art history laid out along a single timeline. Pan across fifteen centuries; step into any period; choose an artist and their paintings assemble into a walkable 3D museum you can wander, one room per painter.

It’s at its best on a larger screen — the walkable 3D galleries are a desktop experience. On a phone you get a streamlined version: the same timeline and paintings as a swipe-through wall, without the 3D walk.

An experiment

This is an experiment. It was built largely with AI as a way to view and explore art — a different shape for a subject that usually arrives as a wall of text — not to replace the scholarship it draws on. Treat it as a way in, then go read the real thing.

Where the content comes from

Every word and image here is sourced verbatim from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons by an automated ingest pipeline. Nothing is authored in the gallery itself. Text is used under CC BY-SA; images carry their own licences on Commons. All credit for the knowledge belongs to the editors and institutions who put it there.

The docent

The spoken-style notes that introduce each gallery are AI-generated from the sourced material — a synthesised guide, not a curator. Read them as a starting point, not a citation.

Still being built

The collection is still growing and the gallery is still changing. Expect rough edges.