Impressionist Painters API
Use this API to add searchable art-history reference data around Impressionist painters and adjacent movements. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints with practical filters, source metadata, and lightweight reference tables so developers can add lookup and discovery features without maintaining their own scraper or curation pipeline.
Use Cases
- build art-history lookup tools
- tag artist databases by movement and nationality
- create education and museum discovery filters
Access
These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.
Open the RapidAPI listing to subscribe, test requests, and get your API key.
Endpoints
/api/impressionistpainters/paintersList painters or filter by name, nationality, movement, place, source category, birth/death year range, or free text.
Query parameters: name, nationality, movement, place, source_category, birth_year_from, birth_year_to, death_year_from, death_year_to, q, limit
/api/impressionistpainters/painters?name=example&q=example
/api/impressionistpainters/nationalitiesList parsed nationalities.
/api/impressionistpainters/nationalities
/api/impressionistpainters/movementsList parsed movements.
/api/impressionistpainters/movements
/api/impressionistpainters/sourcesList Wikipedia categories used for collection.
/api/impressionistpainters/sources
/api/impressionistpainters/statusShow collection status.
/api/impressionistpainters/status
Pricing
- Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for testing the API in prototypes.
- Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
- Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.
Data Notes
Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 30d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.
Primary table: impressionist_painters