Contains information on entities that have some association to works of art in the collection or publications. Associations include artists, sitters, printers, donors, authors, publishers, and more.
GET /person will get all people affiliated with the museums.
Include one or more of the following parameters to filter the items.
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| apikey | YOUR API KEY required |
| q | FIELD:VALUE (see Elasticsearch Query String syntax for more options) |
| size | 0-9+ |
| page | 0-9+ |
| sort | FIELD NAME or "random" or "random:[SEED NUMBER]" |
| sortorder | asc or desc |
| fields | comma separated list of data fields you want in the output |
| aggregation | see Elasticsearch aggregations |
| id | pipe separated list of record IDs |
https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/person?q=culture:Dutch
Finds all of the people that are Dutch.
{
"info": {
"totalrecordsperquery": 10,
"totalrecords": 600,
"pages": 60,
"page": 1,
"next": "https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/person?q=culture%3ADutch&size=10&page=2",
"responsetime": "6 ms"
},
"records": [
{
"gender": "male",
"displaydate": "1872 - 1944",
"objectcount": 10,
"roles": [
{
"role": "Related name",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 5
},
{
"role": "Author",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 1
},
{
"role": "Artist",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 19
},
{
"role": "Artist after",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 2
}
],
"wikidata_id": "Q151803",
"dateend": 1944,
"url": "https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/27650",
"names": [
{
"displayname": "Piet Mondrian",
"type": "Primary Name"
},
{
"displayname": "Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan",
"type": "Alternate Name"
},
{
"displayname": "Piet Mondriaan",
"type": "Alternate Name"
}
],
"birthplace": "Amersfoort, The Netherlands",
"datebegin": 1872,
"culture": "Dutch",
"displayname": "Piet Mondrian",
"alphasort": "Mondrian, Piet",
"ulan_id": "500004972",
"personid": 27650,
"deathplace": "New York, N.Y.",
"id": 27650,
"lastupdate": "2023-07-16T13:53:36-0400",
"lcnaf_id": "n79135254"
},
{
"gender": "male",
"displaydate": "1606 - 1669",
"objectcount": 709,
"roles": [
{
"role": "Related name",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 222
},
{
"role": "Previous attribution",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 10
},
{
"role": "Artist",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 291
},
{
"role": "Artist after",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 233
}
],
"wikidata_id": "Q5598",
"dateend": 1669,
"url": "https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/28241",
"viaf_id": "64013650",
"names": [
{
"displayname": "Rembrandt van Rijn",
"type": "Alternate Name"
},
{
"displayname": "Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn",
"type": "Primary Name"
},
{
"displayname": "Rembrandt",
"type": "Alternate Name"
}
],
"birthplace": "Leiden",
"wikipedia_id": "4254144",
"datebegin": 1606,
"culture": "Dutch",
"displayname": "Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn",
"alphasort": "Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn",
"ulan_id": "500011051",
"personid": 28241,
"deathplace": "Amsterdam",
"id": 28241,
"lastupdate": "2023-07-16T13:54:11-0400",
"lcnaf_id": "n79142935"
}
]
}GET /person/PERSON_ID will get detailed info about a specific person.
alphasort describes the form of the persons name useful for sorting names alphabetically
This often takes the form of "lastname, firstname" and is our preferred way to sort names.
displayname describes the form of the persons name used for display purposes
This often takes the form of "firstname lastname" and is our preferred way to display names.
Some fields contain numeric values that have special meaning and can help connect our records to other data sets. Not all records have these fields because we couldn't always find a match.
names describes the variant names of the person
A person may have one or more names.
displayname - is the displayable variant name
type - is the type of variant name, such as 'Original Language Name' or 'Alternate Name'
roles describes the roles occupied by the person in the context of the Harvard Art Museums collections and activities
lcnaf_id contains the identifier for the matching entry in LCNAF
ulan_id contains the identifier for the matching entry in the ULAN vocabulary
viaf_id contains the identifier for the matching entry in VIAF
wikidata_id contains the identifier for the matching entry in Wikidata
wikipedia_id contains the identifier for the matching entry in Wikipedia
https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/person/29481
Returns the full record for Utagawa Yoshikazu.
{
"id": 29481,
"personid": 29481,
"displayname": "Utagawa Yoshikazu",
"datebegin": 1850,
"dateend": 1870,
"displaydate": "active 1850 - 1870",
"culture": "Japanese",
"gender": "male",
"birthplace": null,
"deathplace": null,
"alphasort": "Utagawa, Yoshikazu",
"url": "https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/29481",
"objectcount": 50,
"lastupdate": "2023-07-16T13:52:05-0400",
"viaf_id": "252063172",
"ulan_id": "500334458",
"wikidata_id": "Q11545174",
"names": [
{
"displayname": "一川芳員",
"type": "Original Language Name"
},
{
"displayname": "Utagawa Yoshikazu",
"type": "Primary Name"
}
],
"roles": [
{
"role": "Artist",
"context": "object",
"frequency": 135
}
]
}