Finding Images and Other Visual Resources: General Resources
ARTstor Digital Library
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The Artstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 1.6 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. This community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.
Features
- Digital Commonwealth
Explore historical collections from libraries, museums, and archives across Massachusetts, including materials digitized from Boston Public Library collections. - Digital Public Library of AmericaExplore over 50,000,000 items from libraries, archives, and museums.
- Europeana
The material you find here comes from galleries, libraries, archives and museums from all over Europe that want to share their collections with a wider audience, whether it is for work, learning, or just to enjoy. - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art HistoryPairs essays and works of art with chronologies,telling the story of art and global culture through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.
- NYPL Digital Collections
This site is a living database of over 1,000,000 items, with new materials added every day, featuring prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
General Image Resources
Courtauld Institute of Art: Art and Architecture
Over 33,000 objects ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century and includes paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculptures, among others, is available to explore in its entirety online for free for the first time thanks to a new digital platform.
A German Research Foundation (DFG) project, this database contains over 257 000 graphic portraits of clerics, rulers, artists, merchants, etc., from major German museum and library collections.
Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions.
Gallica : France, Bibliotheque Nationale and Partner Sites in France
Web Portal to digital collections in French public institutions selected for their compatibility with the collections of the BnF. These documents are available on their original sites.
Library of Congress American Memory Project
American Memory is the gateway to 9 million digitized items organized into 100 thematic collections from the Library of Congress’s vast resources that document U.S. history and culture. Original formats include manuscripts, prints, photographs, posters, maps, sound recordings, motion pictures, books, pamphlets, and sheet music.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
This online catalog features nearly one million digital images taken from the Library's 50+ collections of prints and photographs. Included are images from the the National Child Labor Committee Collection, the U.S. News and World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, the Library of Congress Baseball Card Collection, and the Collection of Architecture, Design and Engineering Drawings.
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Metropolitan Museum's curatorial, conservation, and education staff research and write the Timeline, which is an invaluable reference and research tool for students, educators, scholars, and anyone interested in the study of art history and related subjects. The Timeline extends from prehistory to the present day and continues to expand in scope and depth, and reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.
National Gallery of Art, NGA Images, Washington, D.C.
NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery offers over one million digital images of drawings, illuminated manuscripts, maps, photographs, posters, prints, rare illustrated books, and more. Collections cover artworks and objects, creators, dance, design, furniture, motion pictures, music, ornament, performance, spectacle, theatre, advertising, book binding, dust jackets, friendship books, menus, post cards, posters, trade and greeting cards.
The collective resource of Grove Art Online and other Oxford databases with links to unique art collections around the world.
Oxford University | A Selection of Digital Initiative across the University and Museums
Over a million images of rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.
Public Domain Images at Wikimedia
Wikimedia’s Public Domain Image Resource contains links to sites offering public domain digital images. The presence of a resource on this list does not guarantee that all or any of the images in it are in the public domain.
Smithsonian Collections Search Center: Digital Collections
Over 18.3 million images, video and audio available from across the Smithsonian's vast collections
United Kingdom National Trust Image Collections
Over one million images of British historic architecture and objects of material culture
Digital library of primary materials from across the globe.