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Art History Resources
Image Databases
ACSAA
Color Slide Project
A collection of 15,000 high quality color slides available for purchase,
featuring art and architecture of India, Nepal, Tibet,
Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
AICT
(Art Images for College Teaching)
A free-use image resource for educational purposes, covering Ancient,
Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th-20th Century, and Non-Western art.
American
Memory
A Library of Congress collection with more than 7 million digital items
pertaining to the history and culture of the United States — including art, architecture, and many other subjects.
AMICO (Art
Museum Image Consortium)
A collaboration of museums and other art collections from around the
world, this is a vast image collection for educational use.
An image resource for architecture, landscapes, public art, and design. For slide purchase, there is a Commercial Archive containing over 30,000 images. For educational use, there is an Educational Archive which holds over 50,000 images.
ArchNet
An online resource and community for architects, planners, urban designers,
landscape architects, interior designers, and students, with special focus
given to the Islamic world.
Artcyclopedia: The Fine
Art Searh Engine
A search engine for "museum-quality" artwork, with over 125,000 images
to be explored.
Art on File
A compilation of art image projects from all over the world, this site
enables the purchase and/or downloading of images to be used by design
professionals and for educational purposes.
Art History Resources
on the Web
A comprehensive survey of art history images from ancient times to
modern day. Also included are links to research resources, art museums
and galleries by country, online journals, exhibits, and university art
departments. Time periods are divided into countries, cultures, and
styles.
Artserve
A compilation of art and architecture images, concentrating on the
Mediterranean Basin and Japan.
Artsource
Links to image collections, noteworthy art and architecture libraries,
online art journals, a virtual ceramics exhibit, and more can be found
here.
Asian Arts
Covering all areas of Asian art, this is an online journal focusing
on research and exhibitions of Asian art.
Bodleian
Library - University of Oxford
Roughly one thousand images of manuscripts owned by the University
of Oxford can be found here. The list of manuscripts is arranged
by century (beginning as early as the 11th) and country of origin.
China the Beautiful
A diverse collection of sites focusing on a variety of Chinese topics,
such as Chinese paintings and other graphics arts, as well as online art
museums and galleries in China.
Clearinghouse
of Image Databases
Initiated and hosted by the University of Arizona, this is an online
directory of image databases designed to be used by librarians, archivists,
database administrators, metadata specialists, digital database developers,
or anyone working with imaging technology.
Connecticut College's Wetmore
Print Collection
A digital print gallery containing Rembrandt's etchings, Durer's woodcuts
and engravings, and an assortment of Japanese woodcuts. A compilation
of USA prints will soon be added to the collection.
Digital Librarian:
Art
"A librarian's choice of the best of the Web", this is an impressive
list of art-related links.
George Eastman House
This is a site devoted to the George Eastman House (International Museum
of Photography and Film) in Rochester, NY. Information about the
collections, the building, and its facilities are available, and various
online photography image collections can be accessed and viewed.
Kyoto National Museum
This site features the Kyoto National Museum's (in Kyoto, Japan) collection,
with many digitized images for viewing. Genres included are: archeology,
ceramics, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, lacquerware, textiles, and
metalwork.
National Museum of American Art
Part of the Smithsonian Institution, this site has an extensive list
of online exhibitions, a search engine to search the Museum's digitized
art collection of American Art, over 14,000 images to browse by subject,
and a link to the Renwick Gallery (Center for American Crafts).
The New York Public Library:
Picture Collection Online
An image resource containing 30,000 images from books, magazines, newspapers,
and original prints, postcards, and photographs. Topics covered vary
widely, from African-Americans to Dragons to New York City to Umbrellas
and Parasols.
SILS Art Image Database
A research project initiated by the University of Michigan, containing
art, architectural, and museum object images from four sources: the University
of Michigan Museum of Art, Kelsey Museum of Archeology, Slide and Photograph
Collection, Department of the History of Art, and the Los Angeles Chicano
Murals Collection. Users can browse the database by artist, title,
artist nationality, date, medium, or subject.
S
* P * I * R * O
This is the visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection
of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of
California at Berkeley. The collection holds over 250,000 slides and 15,000
photographs.
University of Michigan Museum
of Art
A homepage for the University of Michigan Museum of Art, this site
enables access to a number of online exhibitions, collection browsing,
and provides news about past, current, and future exhibits.
University
of Virginia, Daguerreotype site
Numerous scanned images of daguerreotypes, as well as information regarding
how they’re made, when they originated, and their unique qualities.
Web Gallery of Art
A virtual gallery containing over 11,600 images of European sculptures
and paintings created between 1150 and 1800. Many images are accompanied
by commentary, and works by major artists are complemented by the artist's
biography. Fifteen different guided tours are available to take,
each with its own area of focus.
WebMuseum!
Initiated in 1994, this site's image collections focus on the work
of Paul Cezanne, Medieval Art, and Famous Artwork (information and images
pertaining to an assortment of time periods and movements, beginning with
Gothic Painting and moving through to the 20th century). Visitors
may even take a virtual tour of Paris if they wish.
World Art Treasures
A collection of images from many different artists, time periods,
and geographic locations. Most categories are accompanied by an essay
and/or artist biography.
Reference Material
ABZU: Guide to Resources for the Study of the Ancient Near East Available on the Internet
AHRC - The Art History Research Centre
Ancient World Web: The Ultimate Index of All Things Ancient
