Period
April 23, 2026 · View on GitHub
Contains information on the periods (art movements within a specific period of time) used to describe items in the Harvard Art Museums collections. With some exceptions, the periods typically follow the Getty Research Institute's Art & Architecture Thesaurus.
Get Periods
GET /period will get all periods.
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 |
| usedby | FIELD NAME:ID |
Examples
https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/period
Returns all of the periods.
Response
{
"info": {
"totalrecordsperquery": 3,
"totalrecords": 298,
"pages": 100,
"page": 1,
"next": "https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/period?size=3&page=2",
"responsetime": "6 ms"
},
"records": [
{
"objectcount": 2,
"id": 7056,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:48-0500",
"name": "Helladic period, Late Helladic I",
"periodid": 7056
},
{
"objectcount": 171,
"id": 345,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:48-0500",
"name": "Hellenistic period, Late",
"periodid": 345
},
{
"objectcount": 1,
"id": 3237,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:48-0500",
"name": "Jômon period, Middle, c. 2500-c. 1500 BCE",
"periodid": 3237
}
]
}
Get Period
GET /period/PERIOD_ID will get the full record of the specified period.
Examples
https://api.harvardartmuseums.org/period/345
Returns the full record for the period Hellenistic period, Late.
Response
{
"periodid": 345,
"name": "Hellenistic period, Late",
"objectcount": 171,
"id": 345,
"lastupdate": "2015-11-22T03:17:48-0500"
}