Art & Architecture Image Sites  Tags: images art architecture  

The following list of websites provide images for the study and teaching of art and architectural history. Some of these sites provide images in the public domain which may be downloaded for educational use, others are for viewing only. Please comply with the copyright regulations posted on the individual site.

Subscription Databases:

• ARTstor
  "ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit education."
• Oxford (Grove) Dictionary of Art
  

Meta Sites & Search Engines:

• Art History Resources on the Web: Contents
• Artcyclopedia: The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet
• Digital Librarian: a librarian's choice of the best of the Web
• Finding Images Online
• Google Image Search
• Grokker
• Image Collections and Online Art (University of Michigan)
• Kartoo
• LII - Arts Topics (Librarians' Guide to the Internet: Arts)
• TouchGraph Google Browser
• Visual Thesaurus
• Vivisimo
  

Topical Sites:

• Architecture of Ancient Greece
• Islamic Arts and Architecture Organization
• The Kidder Smith Images on American Architecture
• New York Skyscrapers
• Perseus Art & Archaeology
• Roman Art and Architecture

Art history on the web

• Art by period
• Artcyclopedia
• Mother of all art and art history links, University of Michigan
• Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image sites

Please see individual sites for copyright restrictions

AICT Art Images for College Teaching

 

Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art & Design

Art Images for College Teaching
Virtual Tour of St. Gilles-du-Gard

Artifice, Inc.

Great Buildings Online

Artothek Kunstfotoarchiv

Artothek

Bard Graduate Center

CATENA Digital Archive of Historic Gardens and Landscapes

Bluffton University

Digital Imaging Project

The British Library

Images Online 
Turning the Pages

The British Museum

Compass Collections Online

California State University

World Images

Cartography Associates

David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

Center for Research Libraries

Chinese Pamphlets Collection 
Digital Library for International Research

Cities and Buildings Collection

 

Digital Archive of European Architecture

 

Foto Marburg

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur

Great Buildings Collection

 

Library of Congress

American Memory
Images on Popular Topics: Architecture
Images on Popular Topics: History and Events 
Images on Popular Topics: People
Images on POpular Topics: Themes
Prints and Photographs online catalog

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection: Search the Collection

MoMA.org: Museum of Modern Art

 

National Museum of African Art

Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives

National Museum of Iceland

Historic Buildings Collection

San Jose State University

Worldimages

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalogue

Society of Architectural Historians: Image Exchange

 

S * P * I * R * O

University of California Berkeley Architecture Slide Library

University of Chicago

Digital South Asia Library
Oriental Institute

Virtual Library Museum Pages

 

Vitruvio.ch

Architecture Resources, Computer Images

Web Gallery of Art

Visual resources and art librarianship links

• Art Libraries Society of North America
• Art Libraries Society of North America/ New England
• Art Libraries Society of North America/ New York
• Cataloging Cultural Objects
• Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• Getty Union List of Artist Names
• Library of Congress Name and Subject Authorities
• Visual Resources Association
• Visual Resources Association/ New England
• Visual Resources Association/ New York

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