LibGuides: Arts and Fine Arts : Images

Images in Books

Books are great sources for finding good quality images. Go to the Library Catalog and perform a keyword search to find books about a particular artist, an exhibit, museum collections, etc.

AUB Student Art Work

Google Images

Images in Databases

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Image database containing over 2 million high-quality images in all areas of the arts. Features works of art from museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. Covers many time periods and culture, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, fashion and other forms of visual culture. Users can view, enlarge, download, and compare images.

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Hint: Log-in is require to save and download images
Oxford Art Online (9 simultaneous users ) This link opens in a new window
Formely Grove Art Online, includes access to 40,000 image links and 5,000 images. Access is also provided for the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms and the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics.

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Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips). Most Wikimedia images are pulled from other websources.

Web Images

ArtCyclopedia
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An index of online museums and image archives. It indexes 2600 art sites from museums and galleries, lists 9000 renowned artists and links to around 140000 artworks.
Art History Web Resources
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Indexes a vast number of links to art history resources on the world wide web.
Art in the Christian Tradition
Around 2700 images representing the practice of Christianity
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A free database produced by Vanderbilt University. It indexes around 2700 images which represent the practice of Christianity from the 1st century A.D. to the present.
Art Resources
Images of works of painting, sculpture, architecture ...
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High quality images of works of painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor arts from most of the worlds major museums, monuments, and commercial archives.
Bridgeman: art, cultural and historical images .
Images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists
British Museum Images
Images of objects held in the British Museum's collection
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The British Museum is the authoritative source of images depicting world culture and history including ceramics, sculpture, prints, drawings, and paintings.
Collection Database: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A searchable database of artworks and related materials from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A GUIDE TO ONLINE VISUAL SOURCES IN MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA, AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
MoMA - The Collection
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections
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NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Visual Collections: Fine Arts
Web Gallery of Art
Virtual image museum
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The Web Gallery of Art is a free virtual image museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries.

Arts and Fine Arts : Images