Image Resources
The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars and students in a wide variety of disciplines. Not only historians of art and architecture and others engaged with the visual arts, but individuals in field as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literacy Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies are finding the 500,000+ digital images ARTstor offers to be relevant to their teaching and research.
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CAMIO
- The Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection
documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections
of many prominent museums. CAMIO includes: Architecture, Costume, Decorative
Arts and Utilitarian Objects, Drawings, Jewelry, Paintings Photographs,
Prints, Sculpture, Textiles, and Watercolors
Grove Art Online has become OXFORD ART ONLINE!
Via the new Oxford Art Online you have access to:
Grove Art Online
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
Use the Search Bar below to get started!
Click on IMAGES. There is a link for Art Resource which contains over 90,000 images. The next link is for the Bridgeman Art Library - over 100,000 art images from major international museums, galleries and auction houses. Finally, there are over 40,000 links within Grove Art articles to important art images in galleries and museums around the world.
OTHER SELECTED RESOURCES
VADS (Visual Arts Data Service) - Comprising over 100,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research.
Bridgeman Art Library (Click on register and access as an “art lover”) Contains over 100,000 art images from major international museums, galleries and auction houses.
The Great Buildings Collection
Life Magazine (covers and images)
National Portrait Gallery, London
The
New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides access to
over 480,000 images digitized from primary sources and
printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including
illuminated manuscripts, illustrated books, historical maps, vintage posters,
rare prints and photographs, magazines and newspapers as well as original
prints and postcards, and other printed ephemera.
The UM Image Source has created a gateway that allows the user to search
multiple image collections available on the web. Click on “Collections”
to access and search the image collection. There are some limitations on
reproduction and use of some of these images.