City Art Search

Microsoft Corporation

Personalization > Wallpaper & lock screens

Personalize your Windows 10 lock screen with beautiful, high-resolution artworks every hour or every day. Search over 9,200 famous paintings, sculptures, and architectural wonders from around the world. Find your favorite artists' masterpieces, or if you're planning to visit a city discover the must-see works of art.

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City Art Search

Free

Overview System Requirements Reviews Related

Available on

PC Mobile device

Description

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What's new in this version

Mobile, Version 4.0.5.7 (10th Jan 2019) - Data cleansing - Addition of new artwork (now at 9,261) PC & Tablet, Version 5.0.5.7 (10th Jan 2019) - Data cleansing - Addition of new artwork (now at 9,261)

Features

Lock screen auto-refresh with variable time interval
Lock screen can cycle random artworks, your favorites, artist etc.
Create a list of favorites that syncs across all your Windows devices
Search 9,200 artworks by title, artist, city, gallery, artistic movement, tags, etc.
PC & tablet slide show mode works in both landscape and portrait orientation
Wikipedia description of famous artworks and artists

Additional information

Published by

Microsoft Corporation

Copyright

Release date

11/3/2014

Approximate size

31.25 MB

Age rating

For ages 3 and up

This app can

Use your location
Access your Internet connection

Permissions info

Installation

Get this app while signed in to your Microsoft account and install on up to ten Windows 10 devices.

Accessibility

The product developer believes this product meets accessibility requirements, making it easier for everyone to use.

Language supported

English (United States)

Publisher Info

City Art Search support

Additional terms

City Art Search privacy policy
Terms of transaction

Seizure warnings

Photosensitive seizure warning

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System Requirements

Minimum
Your device must meet all minimum requirements to open this product
OS	Windows 8 Mobile, Windows 8.1
Architecture	x86, x64, ARM, ARM64

Recommended
Your device should meet these requirements for the best experience
OS	Windows 8 Mobile, Windows 8.1
Architecture	x86, x64, ARM, ARM64

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Reviewed ByFelipe

Mobile

2/7/2018

Review title of FelipeAwesome app from an awesome developer

Here's a useful tip from the developer, who happens to be a very nice man who works hard to bring us this awesome app, so if you can, toss him a tip, he deserves it. Heres the tip: "Btw, if you use ‘City Art Search’ for sourcing your PC Lock Screen, you can do a search for say ‘Goya’ and then go to settings and select Search Results as your Lock Screen source. That way your Lock Screen will auto-refresh with just Goya artworks. Make search you set the number of returned results to high, like 200. This will work for any search results, and you can also do combo searches for things like ‘Caravaggio and Van Gogh’. Or try something like ‘19th Century’ or ‘20th Century’." The CAS Preview app is a great companion app as well. Try that one too! Both apps get regular updates and artwork additions. At the time of writing this review, there were over 9000 pieces of art in this collection!

4 out of 4 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByK

Mobile

10/20/2017

Review title of KGreat App -- Incredible Developer

Get this app! Great interface, lots of nice works. I can't say enough about how great an experience this app provides. This is thanks in part to an incredibly dedicated and responsive developer -- in an earlier version of this review, I had mentioned some further works and the developer found them and put them on in an incredibly short time. Fantastic responsiveness! Another wonderful component of the experience is the interface -- you have to try it and you'll see. This is a fantastic app -- my favorite. Having it is like carrying your own museum of the best works with you everywhere (a "Boite En Valise" that includes all the greatest). The developer clearly put a lot of work, and continues to put a lot of work in to this and it's truly wonderful to have. I cannot imagine how much work it was to get the works the app has. I smile every time I see the live tile. Great work and really cool app!

Microsoft Corporation responded on 10/20/2017

If there are other artworks, architectural wonders etc. you feel are missing from the email, please don't hesitate to email me :)

3 out of 3 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByDurwood

Mobile

3/21/2017

Review title of DurwoodWonderful app!

Wonderful app!

2 out of 2 people found this helpful.

Reviewed Byeli

9/13/2016

Review title of eligreatest app i have

i set it to change the image every hour, and almost every time I look at my phone i have a beautiful piece of art on my lock screen! go into the app and press the "w" and read the wiki on the artist or the piece. press the star to save as a favorite. wonderful app, thank you microsoft!

2 out of 2 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByBruce

3/15/2018

Review title of BruceTop Art

Very good app. Art highlights only but that is all it claims. Points out the don't miss pieces. Coverage is broad which is good.

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByYuechang

Mobile

2/13/2018

Review title of Yuechang

This app is good!!! I like it. 😊

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByBirhang

Mobile

8/13/2017

Review title of Birhang

A change in the loading icon please. 5 stars for a beautifully made app. 😊

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByPamela

Mobile

7/9/2017

Review title of Pamela

Just started using this app and have learned so much already.

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByGrady

Mobile

5/28/2017

Review title of GradyBest Lock Screen App Bar None

The best windows phone lockscreen app. Thank you Microsoft!

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

Reviewed ByPaul

Mobile

2/4/2017

Review title of PaulArt museum in your pocket....

If you enjoy great art.from museums around the world you'll love this app. The growing list of artwork is beautifully reproduced. You can even save high resolution art images to your phone.

1 out of 1 people found this helpful.

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