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A Walkable History of Art
Move through painting on foot, one period and one room at a time
A list of art movements teaches you their names; a corridor where the centuries change as you walk teaches you the order they came in and how long each one lasted.
A browser gallery you move through in first person: scroll or pinch to travel through time, drag to pan, click a period to go in. Rooms are organised by historical period, with one artist shown at a time, and side routes include a gallery wall, a star map and a list of every artist. The paintings are pulled live from Wikipedia, which the maker credits on the page and plans to replace with self-hosted images. It is free, needs no account, and the code is public. Tab navigation and touch gestures work. Images are low resolution, the halls run in a line, and the interface crowds a small screen.
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