My church has a projector that shows announcements before Mass begins. I've suspected for a while that they were using Generative AI pictures in some of these slides and my suspicions were confirmed today by the three-armed Pharisee and the fact that Jesus had 4.5 fingers (his pinky was growing out of his ring finger). I guess my priest is going to get a strongly worded email in a few minutes...
Angry email sent. I quoted the Pope so I'm pretty sure I win.
Uh, my priest agreed with my email about not using Generative AI images but jujitsued me, and now I've been asked to advise the team on where to get public domain art. Anyone have any good resources for public domain Christian religious art? Help!
@Tim_Eagon ...museums? Y'all got 1900 years of public domain art to choose from.
@Tim_Eagon https://picryl.com/ Bet there's some Jesus in there.
@Tim_Eagon I bet Wikimedia Commons has lots of stuff! https://commons.wikimedia.org
Not everything's public domain but everything is free use, licenses vary (some need attribution, some need attribution + a GPL-style "put your derivatives under the same license"). Anything old will probably be public domain though, like Old Jesus Paintings and stuff.
@Tim_Eagon https://openverse.org/search?q=jesus ... https://search.creativecommons.org/ also offers that as one option but also finds copyleft/free images on Google, Wikimedia, and Flickr (each one at a time). Flickr has a good search too, that allows specifying copyright. Hope that helps.
@Tim_Eagon creative commons used to have a browsable list of CC licensed art in various media.
@Tim_Eagon like, all of it?
Every time I plough through public domain images, I trip over a thousand crucifixions. Half the art in Europe between 13th and 16th century was just whips, crosses and looking upwards. Your cup runeth over.
If you find public domain art with less than 50% Bible, please let me know.