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Art History
AHDS Visual Arts – explore collections (600 px) The Visual Arts Data Service provides access to the digital archives of many organizations including the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive, The Imperial War Museum’s poster archive and the design archives of a number of Universities.
This web site DesignHistory.org is a great source for all you historical design inquiries.
Art Images for College Teaching (765 px) An educational resource intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large. The images displayed on this site have been photographed on location by the author, who consents to their use in any application that is both educational and non-commercial in nature. Collections include Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th-20th Century and Non-Western Art.
Artchive (1065 px) Free ad-driven site with many art images from ancient contemporary art. Contains more than 2,000 high-quality scans of artwork from Abakanowicz to Wyeth. Created by Mark Harden.
Artcyclopedia Another free ad-driven site with manylinks to art images from ancient contemporary art, mostly from museums. Bills itself as the guide to great art on the Internet.
Boston College Digital Archive of Art, has a great collection of paintings, architecture, and sculpture. Perfect reference for those lengthy art history papers.
Camio is a growing collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
CAMIO is licensed for use by students, faculty, and researchers at subscribing institutions. Works of art may be used for educational and research purposes during the term of the subscription, if they are properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed.
Password protected. See library staff or Library Homeroom for login information.
Gertrude and Robert Metcalf Collection is home to over 11,000 slides of stained glass images.
The LIFE photo archive has been digitized and is now accessible through Google Images. You can browse by decade or subject matter. Or Add “source:life” to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. For example: computer source:life. Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time.
The Mills-Kronborg Collection, is a great source for Danish Church Wall Paintings.
The Smithsonian Institute’s Collections Search Center provides easy “one-stop searching” of more than 2 million of the Smithsonian’s museum, archives, library and research holdings and collections.
The Society of Architectural Historians (768 px) The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) provides a world survey set of digital images of architecture and built environment in two parts. Part I: Ancient through Mid-evil plus early non-Europe and Part II: Renaissance through Modern.
The Svetlana Tomekovic Database of Byzantine Art is a large collection of sometimes hard-to-find images. Browse by country and then by location.
The Tuck Langland collection This collection covers nearly three thousand images of architectural and art historical interest for the medievalist.
The Visual Arts Data Service (1024 px) Collections include London College of Fashion: College Archive, London College of Fashion: Paper Patterns, the British National Fine Art Collection, Oxford Portraits, the South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive and many more British and international images.
Web Gallery of Art (1300 px) The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 18,400 reproductions.
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University Modern Dutch Collection (2725 px) The Wolfsonian’s digital image collection is accessible via PALMM, Publication of Archival and Museum Materials. PALMM is a cooperative initiative of the public universities of Florida to provide digital access to important source materials for research and scholarship. Scroll down on the page and click on The Wolfsonian-FIU Modern Dutch Collection.
WorldImages Art & Architecture Portfolios (1028 px) Great images from a variety of disciplines.