This dataset collects artworks of the 50 most influential artists of all time and contains basic information retrieved from Wikipedia.

The dataset contains three files:

• Artists.csv: A dataset of information about each artist
• images.zip: A collection of images (full size), divided into folders and numbered sequentially
• resized.zip: Same collection, but the images have been resized and extracted from the folder structure

use resized.zip This allows you to download less data and process models faster.

Acknowledgements

The data was collected from the end of February 2019. artchallenge.ru Crawling in.