A & A, Courtauld Institute of Art
A site featuring over 26,000 images of art and architecture from the collections of the Courtauld Institute.
The African and Asian Visual Artists Archive
2000 images of contemporary works
Archive of African Artists
The National Museum of African Art Library maintains this unique collection of more than 2,000 files on contemporary African artists. The individual artist files may contain gallery brochures, exhibition announcements and invitations, price lists, resumes, press releases, reviews, and newspaper cuttings.
The Art Collection and the Digital Media Center (UC access only)
The Art Collection provides access to over 54,000 art image's from prehistoric to contemporary times. The Digital Media Center (DMC) also provides widespread access to images, sounds, video, numeric data, and other types of media information for the community and the world.
Art Images for College Teaching
The Art Images for College Teaching Home site supports the free exchange of image resources. The site offers a wide array of art historical imagery ranging from pre-historic to the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on images of architectural and archaeological sites.
ARTstor (UC access only)
300,000 images of architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, decorative arts, and design. Included in the image database is an Art History Survey Collection consisting of 4000 images and 20,000 architecture images from antiquity to the present. ARTstor allows users to create presentations and insert annotations; it can be used either on or offline. for a quick guide to using the database try More about ARTstor. Or download the ARTstor Software Manual (PDF format) which contains detailed instructions.
ARC
The Art Renewal Center offers an online museum of art from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth Century. Images are accessed by searching be artists' name, nationality, birth or death dates. The ARC also posts the winners of the ARC Salon exhibition. This Salon highlights contemporary representational art.
Art History Resources on the Web
A directory to art historical sites. The site provides coverage from pre-historic to contemporary art and architecture in a variety of media. Visitors will be able to garner basic information about artworks and discover information about non-western art and architecture. The site provides a list of international museums and their links as well as research resources.
Artcyclopedia
This site allows the visitor to search for a particular artist or title and discover information about the artist's bibliography, links to museums that hold objects by a particular artist, images of a particular work of art, web links and online articles pertaining to the subject matter. Artcyclopedia has links to purchasing posters and the entertaining "This Day in Art History."
ArtServe
This image site run by The Australian National University features art and architecture images primarily from the Mediterranean Basin, India, and Japan. However, the site also includes a wealth of Northern European imagery. One may perform a search for a specific item or subject or simply select links to subject, country of origin, artist name or title. Student projects and scholarly publications are made available for study as well.
Art Resource (UC access only)
This link leads to the Grove Dictionary of Art. Click on the Art Image Collections and then choose Art Resource. Database contains 90,000 images. Excellent collection of 20th century images.
Atlas
The official database of the Musée du Louvre, which includes label copy and images of each work. A search engine provides multiple search strategies; in French only.
Bridgeman Art Library (UC access only)
This link leads to the Grove Dictionary of Art. Click on the Bridgeman Art Library on the home page.
The Bridgeman Art Library is one of the world's leading sources of fine art imagery. Founded in 1972, the Library works with museums, art galleries and artists to make the best art available for reproduction purposes. The Library covers every subject, concept, style and medium from the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections.
The DAAP Digital Image Teaching Collection (UC access only)
represents core images required to support the DAAP curriculum. These images span a broad spectrum of the visual arts including contemporary performance artists to urban landscapes.
D’Art: Internet Art Database
An excellent resource for researching the working artist, this commercial database includes information from artists, collectors, and dealers, including images of works for sale.
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco
Searchable database of over 82,000 images from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young museum and the Legion of Honor).
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
This collection includes over 300,000 images of art and architecture in Asia. Images, ranging from about 2500 B.C.E. to the present, are included from the countries of India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), China, and Japan.
The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
This database includes more than 13.7 million photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collection is particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people. The site also includes a list of resources and bibliographies.
Getty Collections
J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles provides images from their collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Searchable database of over 6,500 objects, including the entire collections of the Department of European Paintings and the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, as well as highlights from each of the museum’s other curatorial departments. The database is searchable by artist, period, or style. The site also features a chronological timeline of art history and several educational resources.
MFA Boston
Updated weekly, the MFA’s database includes over 323,000 of the 450,000 objects in the museum’s collection. An advanced search aids in searching, and works are also categorized by museum department.
National Gallery of Art (UK)
This online database includes the entire collection of the British National Gallery’s permanent collection and long-term loans, providing illustrations and descriptions of all objects. The collection can also be viewed by popularity, time period, subject, artist, and theme. Additional features of the site include artist biographies, a guide to religious stories and classical myths, and a special features section that changes frequently.
National Gallery of Art (USA)
An online database of the collection of the National Gallery of Art, searchable by artist, title, subject, expanded search, provenance, or accession number. Over 5,600 works are now available online.
National Portrait Gallery (UK)
This online database provides illustrations for over 44,000 portraits and information for nearly 85,000 works. The database is searchable by sitter, artist, and title, and also includes advanced search features.
National Portrait Gallery (USA)
This online database provides access to more than 80,000 portrait records. Separate searches provide access to the NPG collection, a biographical search, and the Catalog of American Portraits, which includes portraits in both public and private collections in the US and abroad.
NYPL Picture Collection Online
The Picture Collection Online (PCO) is a select group of images from The New York Public Library, Mid-Manhattan Library, Picture Collection. The collection consists of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923.
Otis College of Art + Design
Approximately 8,000 images of 2,000 artists' books.
Oxford Portraits
Oxford University's collection of portraits includes images of individuals from all walks of life including British and foreign monarchs, leaders of nations, scientists, writers, scholars and artists.
Peter A. Juley and Son Collection
4700 images of portraits of famous artists from 1906-1975
Royal Academy of the Arts Collection
A Web site providing a search engine for the Royal Academy’s collection of works of art, rare books, and archives. Updated regularly, the site also provides themed groupings of works
Online Photography Collection-Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Web site for the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s photography collection. The main page focuses on three of their primary collections: The First Century of American Photographs, Contemporary American Landscape Photography, and American Daguerreotypes. A search engine is also available.
Tate
Database for the entire collection of the Tate, which encompasses British Art since 1500 and international modern art. Searchable by artist, subject, title, and advanced search features. The site also includes a glossary of art terms.
The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery
Over 2000 image of works by VIncent Van Gogh.
Over 100,000 images of visual art images.
Visual Collections
Visual Collections contains over 300,000 images from more than 30 collections. These images fall under several subject matter including cartography, fine art, architecture, and photography. The site offers several features for viewing including a zoom tool and multiple image viewing.
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art contains over 12,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800. A considerable number of the pictures are commented upon and biographies of the significant artists are given. Visitors can choose to search by title, artist's name, by type or simply take one of the guided tours. The site also provides free online postcards.
WorldArt Image Database
The World Art image database allows you to search over 35,000 art and architecture images from throughout the world, from prehistory to the end of the twentieth century. One is able to search by artist name, title, subject matter, period, art form, or nationality. Images on the site are zoomable to view details.