Image Collections - Art

 

 

 

Art Images for College Teaching

http://www.arthist.umn.edu/aict/html

Subject areas include ancient, non-western, medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-20th century art.

 

ARTCYCLOPEDIA: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet

http://artcyclopedia.com 

Huge number of links to works of "museum quality" artists at museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. The focus is on fine art painting and sculpture, but some other forms such as photography, decorative arts, and architecture are sometimes included. Search by artist's name.

 

Barewalls Online Poster Store

http://www.barewalls.com 

Buy art posters, pictures, and prints. Search for posters by subject, artist's name, title, style, or medium.

 

Bridgeman Art Library Image Search

http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/search/quick_search.asp 

"An outstanding archive of images drawn from collections throughout the world." Note that images are copyright protected.

 

Carol Gerten's Fine Art - A Virtual Art Museum (CGFA)

http://cgfa.sunsite.dk 

More than 6,000 images covering medieval to early 20th century with biographical sketches for featured artists. Searchable by artist name, nationality or time period.

 

Digital Imaging Project 

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm 

Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from Classical Greek to Post-Modern. More than 10,000 pictures of architecture from around the world are organized by country. 

 

Ditto.com

http://www.ditto.com/default.aspx 

An image-only search engine for photos and clip art. Type in a phrase and click on the resulting image to enlarge it and view it at its original site.

 

Finding Images on the Web

http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html 

In addition to image search engines is information on image copyright, along with how to download and insert images. Find links to clip art, advertisements, photography, and maps.

 

Flickr: Creative Commons

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

"Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license."

 

Freefoto.com

http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp 

Over 40,000 free images arranged by category for non-commercial use.

 

Historical Picture Collections

http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/documents/clipsources.html 

Many, many, links with brief annotations to digital image collections, moving image collections, clip art sites, and image search engines.  Users can view by collection/exhibit or by topic.

 

Insight Visual Collections

http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/finearts.html

A directory of image collections (all can be browsed without charge except for the AMICA library).

 

JOCONDE

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm

Although the site is in French, a translated version of the page supports either a simple or advanced image search.

 

The New York Public Library Online Picture Collection

http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco 

"Digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923."

 

Old Time Clip Art

http://www.oldtimeclipart.com 

Over 1,600 images from the 1800s to the early 1900s.

 

Postershop.com

http://www.postershop.com 

Includes thousands of posters and prints to view or buy.

 

Web Gallery of Art

http://www.wga.hu

"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."

 

VADS (Visual Arts Data Service)

www.vads.ac.uk/collections/index.html

"...over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research." Includes images of decorative arts, buildings, fashion, and more.

 

Web Museum, Paris

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm 

Virtual museum of images and information concentrating on Western European and American art.

 

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