The Hispanic visual archive
On the way to 1,000,000 images — engravings, maps, illustrations, and photographs from the Hispanic world, 15th to 20th centuries. A semantic search engine that understands visual content, no metadata dependency.
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The Hispanic visual archive
On the way to 1,000,000 images — engravings, maps, illustrations, and photographs from the Hispanic world, 15th to 20th centuries. A semantic search engine that understands visual content — no metadata dependency. Type "red-cloaked apostle 17th century" and locate images and visual details in public-domain primary sources.
Toward 1,000,000 images · 156 collections · 3,090 visual tags and growing · 20 archives and libraries
Who is this for
Researchers
Semantic search across primary sources: BNE, Prado, Library of Congress, Europeana, and more. Search by what images contain, not what someone decided to tag. Every result keeps its source, institution, and attribution data. Build project collections.
Explore archiveTeachers & students
156 thematic collections ready for the classroom. Mesoamerican codices, colonial art, naturalist travellers, historical cartography. Search in natural language and bring real primary material to your classes.
View collectionsEditors, curators & designers
Search by theme, colour, or period. Curate your own selection and compare options with AI analysis. One platform to document, publish, and share your editorial work with the Hispanic visual heritage.
CollaborateTools
Search by colour →
115 documented pigments. Search art by the tone you need.
Compare images →
Side by side with AI analysis of technique, period, and iconography.
Visual index →
3,090 AI-extracted tags and growing. Discover what's inside the images.
My images →
Save images to your personal collection. No account required. Everything in your browser.
Sources: BNE, Museo del Prado, Wikimedia Commons, Library of Congress, Art Institute of Chicago, Europeana, colonial archives, university collections. All public domain.
Terms of use and database rights
Individual images in the Visual Linkgua archive are public-domain works and may be freely reused while preserving their original attribution (institution, author, shelfmark). The catalogue as a whole — editorial metadata, generated descriptions, semantic embeddings, collection organisation, canonical slugs, curated tags, links between works — is a database protected under EU Directive 96/9/EC and its Spanish transposition. Extraction or reuse of substantial parts of the catalogue, or its repeated and systematic use, requires express authorisation from Linkgua Ediciones. Bulk download of the manifest, automated image scraping, and reproduction of the catalogue in commercial aggregators are not permitted. For institutional licences, API access or editorial use, write to [email protected].