SCALA ARCHIVES is the largest and most prestigious fine art image archive worldwide. Transparencies and high resolution digital files of works of art from all over the world, covering every age and every field of visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, archaeology, the ancient & the modern world, decorative arts, photography, design, fashion etc.) are available for licensing to all media.
Scala is either the outright owner or official agent for many of the most important art, fashion, photography & historical collections worldwide.
To mention but a few among the diverse locations, collections and museums represented: The Italian and German State Museums (Berlin, Dresden, Munich, etc.), the Vatican Museums, Egyptian Museum, Turin, The Luce/Cinecittà Archive, The Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, The Louvre, The Musée d’Orsay, and the musée du quai Branly, Paris (worldwide exclusivity), ADAGP collection (the French artists’ rights management society), The Pushkin Museum, Moscow, The Hermitage and The Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg, The National Gallery and V&A, London, The UK National Trust, The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, The Museu Gulbenkian, Lisbon, The Munch Museum, Oslo, The Prado and The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, and the Kyoto International Culture Foundation.
Furthermore several US museums have chosen to be represented by Scala Archives. Among them: the MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, NY (worldwide exclusivity), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (essentially European exclusivity), The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Neue Galerie, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, and numerous others.
Since 2010 we represent the Cinecittà-Luce Archive. This collection of over 3 million images forms an exceptional documentary of life in Italy in the 1900’s. Political & social reform from 1919 to 1965, the height & decline of Fascism, the birth of the Republic, Italy reborn after the Second World War, the film stars, via Veneto and La Dolce Vita. Combined with the DuFoto and AGF archives it offers a great chronicle of Italy’s recent past.
2. Scala Archives The World’s Heritage in Images
Scala Archives is an invaluable
visual resource for both
commercial and scholarly users
Scala Archives in numbers
400,000 Individual art works
10,000 Museums and art
locations
21,000 Artists
400,000 Historic photographs
7,000 Thematic keywords
10 Professional picture
researcherss
Over 700,000 high-resolution
files and large size transparencies
Over 25,000 on-line registered
users
Over 6,000 clients
Over 80 countries
Over 25,000 image licenses
a year for: books, magazines,
CD-ROMS, DVDs, websites,
smartphones, tablets and
netbooks, TV programs and film
productions, Corporate reports,
museum catalogues, posters,
puzzles and calendars, t-shirts
and other merchandising.
For over 50 years Scala Archives has
carefully increased its image collection and
updated its infrastructure so as to become
the most efficient and comprehensive
image database from which to license.
Through the decades Scala developed strong ties and long last-
ing relationship and agreements with most of the world’s top
fine art collections and museums. Testimony and example of
such ties, is the fact that, for more than a decade now, Scala
has been successfully acting as exclusive worldwide agent for
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The archives’ contents cover a wide range of eras, mediums
and subjects: Fine Art, Archeology, Master Photography,
Architecture, Design, Anthropology, Cinema, Fashion, Ce-
lebrities, Music, Literature, Dance, Travel and History. The
importance of the collection of historic photographs increased
greatly with the addition of Cinecittà, Istituto Luce.
Top reasons for Image Buyers to choose Scala Archives
Original editorial ideas
and project samples
Time and money
savings thanks to the
one-stop-shop
Competitive rates,
negotiable bulk deals and
flexible payment terms
Unrestricted on-line
access to our catalogue
(updated weekly)
Frequent worldwide
photographic campaigns
and acquisitions
Top reasons for Image Sellers to choose Scala Archives
Increase in profits,
higher sales volume at no
additional cost
Punctual royalties
payment: no debt collection
costs and no risks
Legal and technical
image file protection
– bullet proof terms,
watermark and image
tagging (IPTC metadata)
Prompt order
execution: 24 hour
turnaround, fulfilling the
most widespread and
time sensitive requests in
the market
Historic and artistic
searches cross-referenced
automatically in multiple
languages (English,
French, German, Italian
and Spanish)
Free image research,
upon request
Dedicated English,
French, German, and
Spanish telephone
assistance
Offices in Florence,
London, and Paris
Extensive network
of international agents
Copyright peace of
mind (thanks to our
agreements with museums
we stand behind every
single license granted)
Clear information and
efficient assistance in
clearing additional or
third party copyrights
Leader in large size
high resolution images –
strikingly crisp details
IPTC Metadata:
caption and copyright
info is embedded in each
image file
Immediate high-resolution
download, 24 hours a day
365 days a year
Advance news
pertaining the world
of art and culture – key
exhibitions, artists’
and special event
anniversaries, and much
more etc.
In person international
marketing. Multilingual
agents and staff with
offices in Europe, South
America and Asia regularly
attend trade shows, travel
for meetings and/or to
present specific content
and editorial projects
On paper International
marketing. Regular
multilingual newsletters,
brochures, dedicated
flyers
Increased image
sales within Scala’s own
editorial projects
Increased turnover of
lesser known images –
thanks to key-wording,
a multiple language
search engine and high
website traffic
Photographic quality
control.When necessary,
1,000 dpi image scanning
and/or new shooting with
a digital camera back
Automatic rights
administration,
computerized museums’,
artists’, and third parties’
rights management
along with copyright
guidance for specialized
uses (advertising,
merchandising)
Thorough business
information – client’s
ranking, types of use,
sales per image etc. are
available upon request
Free on-line and
off-line promotion of
museum/collection events
Free museum/
collection staff from non
remunerative procedures
allowing them to focus
on the institution’s core
business
3. Scala Archives offers images
from the following Collections
Europe
Austria
Graphische Sammlung Albertina,
Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
France
Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Le Louvre, Paris
Le Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
and many other French Museums
Germany
Through BPK:
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
Aegyptisches Museum, Berlin
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Museum Der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig
Dresden Museums, Dresden
Alte und Neue Pinacothek, Munich
Skulpturensammlung und Museum
für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin
and other German Museums
Greece
Photographic Archive Marie Mauzy
on Ancient Greece, Athens
Hungary
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Italy
Biblioteca and Pinacoteca
Ambrosiana, Milan
The Uffizi, Florence
Accademia, Florence
Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Pompeii, Naples
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Musei Capitolini, Rome
Forum Romanum & Colosseum, Rome
Accademia, Venice
Fondazione Museo delle Antichità
Egizie, Turin
and many other Italian Museums
Norway
Munch Museum, Oslo
Portugal
Fundacao Calouste Museu
Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Cam, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon
Russia
Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg
Spain
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Fundación Colección Thyssen-
Bornemisza, Madrid
United Kingdom
British Museum, London
National Gallery, London
British Library, London
National Trust Photo Library, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wallace Collection, London
National Maritime Museum,
Greenwhich
Francis Frith Collection, London
Werner Forman Archive, London
Vatican
Museo Pio-Clementino
Museo Chiaramonti
Museo Gregoriano Egizio
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco
Museo Gregoriano Pagano
Museo Pio Cristiano
Gallery of the Tapestries
Pinacoteca
Nicholas V’s Chapel
Cappella Sistina
Galleria degli Arazzi
Stanze di Raffaello
Galleria delle Carte Geografiche
and many other Vatican Museums
Scala Archives offers images
from these additional Photo Archives
The Americas
United States of America
Moma - The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Wgbh, Boston
Africa
Egypt
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Asia
Iraq
Iraq Museum, Baghdad
Japan
Kyoto International Culture
Foundation, Kyoto
Banque d’images ADAGP, Paris
More than 11,000 images of works
of art by contemporary artists, most
prominent among them Magritte.
Cinecittà Luce, Rome
Cinecittà Luce Picture Library boasts
over 3 million black and white
photographs documenting Italian
society during the 19th and
20th Century.
De Agostini, Novara
A wide collection of images of
archeology, history, travel, folklore,
geography, and science including all
the Unesco sites and prominent
museums worldwide.
Through Art Resource:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Frank Stella Archive, New York
Jewish Museum, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington DC
National Portrait Gallery, Washington
DC
Newark Museum, Newark
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
Mexico
National Museum of Anthropology,
Mexico City