WikiArt Downloader: An Artist's Works in One Folder
Collect paintings from WikiArt on your computer: everything the encyclopedia holds by one artist, the paintings of a style or a movement, or a single work. Each picture is saved under its title, in a folder named after the artist, ready for study, a mood board or a slideshow.
How to Download Paintings from WikiArt
WikiArt shows one painting to a page and an artist's works as a long gallery. To have them as files of your own, three steps:
One-time setup: download NeoDownloader and install it. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The steps below are what you repeat each time.
- 1WikiArtwikiart.org/en/claude-monet
Open the Artist on WikiArt
Find the painter on wikiart.org and copy the address of their page, wikiart.org/en/ and the artist's name. For a style, open its page among the paintings by style; for one work, its own page.
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ProjectsNew projectWhat do you want to download?
wikiart.org/en/claude-monet
NextPaste It into NeoDownloader
Click New project and let the copied address fill the field. Gallery Downloader knows WikiArt and calls the project by the artist or the style; click Next.
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Name and folder
Claude Monet
Create projectGather the Paintings
Point the project at a folder with Create project. The paintings arrive one after another, an artist's earliest works first, in the order WikiArt lists them.
WikiArt Downloader That Keeps Every Title
Each painting is saved under its title with WikiArt's own number for it in front, inside a folder that bears the artist's name: Claude Monet/5772722cedc2cb3880c42a2a_Lighthouse at the Hospice.jpg.
WikiArt shows classics that are long in the public domain beside modern works still under copyright. Check a painting's rights before using it beyond your own study.
Download WikiArt Paintings by Style or Movement
Beyond artists, WikiArt sorts paintings by style, genre and medium, and each list has an address of its own, such as wikiart.org/en/paintings-by-style/impressionism. Paste one and the project, named after it, gathers the paintings it lists.
WikiArt Links NeoDownloader Accepts
- An artist - wikiart.org/en/ and the artist's name, also typed without https://
- One painting - the artist's address followed by the painting's name
- A style, genre or medium - wikiart.org/en/paintings-by- and the list's name
WikiArt Downloads Beyond One Link at a Time
Services that save a single link stop at that link. NeoDownloader starts from an address, goes through all it leads to, files everything beside the page it came from, and on a later run skips what it already has.
WikiArt Downloader FAQ
How do I download all paintings by one artist from WikiArt?
Copy the artist's page address from wikiart.org and use it for NeoDownloader's “New project”. The works WikiArt lists for that artist come down into one folder named after them.
Can I download a whole art style, like Impressionism?
Yes. Open the style among WikiArt's paintings by style and use that page's address; the project takes the paintings it lists.
How are the downloaded paintings named?
By title, with WikiArt's number for the work in front, so two paintings with one title never collide, and each artist's works share a folder.
Are the paintings free to use?
Downloading does not change a painting's rights. Old masters are generally in the public domain; modern works on WikiArt are usually still under copyright.
Do I have to pay to download from WikiArt?
No. Download NeoDownloader and it works with WikiArt straight away. The free version has no time limit; Premium lifts its limits on the number of files per project.
Build Your Own Art Library
Paste an artist's or a style's address and keep the paintings in a folder for study or reference. The free version has no time limit.
Available for Windows, Mac and Linux