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Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago collection with IIIF images.

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About this source

Full-text search over 120,000+ artworks with artist, date, medium and origin, plus public-domain flags and IIIF image links.

Questions you can ask Art Institute of Chicago

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Search the collection for records about a named person, place or event and list the reference codes.

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What the assistant can do with it

The 1 tool this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • artic_search

    Search the Art Institute of Chicago collection.

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  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
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