An art database is only useful if it survives the person who built it. Aurelian is art database software with a structured schema — artist, work, edition, provenance, valuation, exhibition, location — so records stay coherent decades after entry and remain searchable, filterable, and exportable in standard formats.
What it does
Every field typed and validated. No free-text mess where the medium is 'oil on canvas' in one row and 'Oil / Canvas' in the next.
Search across artist, title, medium, tags, and notes. Filter by any combination of location, value band, status, or custom tag.
High-resolution images, certificates, invoices, and correspondence attached to the work record and retrievable in one click.
Update a hundred records in one operation. Reconcile inconsistent legacy data without touching each row.
CSV export at any time. PDF dossier per work. No lock-in — the database belongs to you.
Who uses this
Photograph, catalogue, and tag every work in the collection. Full-text search across decades of acquisitions.
Bulk import from spreadsheets, reconcile artist and medium fields, and re-emerge with a clean, structured database.
Every work the artist has ever made, catalogued by year, series, and status. CV and catalogue raisonné build from the same data.
Questions
Yes. CSV import with field mapping. Aurelian will guide you through matching columns to the underlying schema.
Yes. Full CSV and document export at any time in standard formats. No lock-in.
A spreadsheet is a grid. A database is a schema — fields are typed, relationships are enforced (a work belongs to an artist), and search is structured, not fuzzy text-match.
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