Subject Guides: Art Education: Images

Visual Arts Image Databases (BYU only)

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ArtStor This link opens in a new window ARTstor is a digital image database of nearly 700,000 images from a wide range of cultures and time periods. It includes tools to manipulate the images for study and teaching. Collections include The Image Collection (key art works used in arts, humanities, social science studies); The Art History Survey collection (concordance of 13 standard art history survey texts); The Carnegie Arts of the United States (American visual arts and material culture); The Hartill Architectural Archive; The Huntington Archive of Asian Art; The Illustrated Bartsch (European prints from 15th-19th centuries); The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive of Chinese art; The MOMA Architecture and Design Archive; The Native American art and Culture from the Smithsonian Institute; and a large number of significant collections being added. For details and tutorials, consult the ARTstor research guide at: http://www.lib.byu.edu/subsutility/viewGuide.php?gid=432&nav=1
Images may be used for non-commercial, scholarly, and educational purposes.
Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window Bridgeman Education is a complete visual resource offering over 1,000,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use. Bridgeman Education gives you access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilisations.
Images may not be used in anything that will be distributed or presented outside of BYU.
AskART This link opens in a new window The most comprehensive research database on American Art. Contains biographical and bibliographical information about artists; exhibition listings and records; museum holdings, with links from artists to their museums; auction records and prices for hundreds of thousands of art works; and more than 300,000 digital images for all periods.
Index of Medieval Art This link opens in a new window Largest database of medieval art, with records for over 23,000 works of art dating from early apostolic times to 1400. There are over 60,000 images from institutions such as the Morgan Library (New York); Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, D.C.); The Courtauld Institute (London); Princeton University, Jane Vadnal Image Collection; and the James Austin Photographic Collection. Individual works of art have descriptions and metadata including subject, location, date, school, style, ownership, etc. In addition, there are over 18,000 bibliographic records supporting these works of art. Formerly Index of Christian Art

Digital Image Collections | Art

Archives of American Art | Smithsonian
Image and Media Gallery.
Art Resource
Collection of over one million fine arts images of historical and contemporary works. Browse by artist or museum. High resolution images are available from Art Resource for a fee.
CODART: Dutch & Flemish Art
Dutch and Flemish art in museums worldwide.
Google Arts & Culture Project
Explore by artist, movement, medium, and museums worldwide. Tour famous sites and landmark and 360 degrees views.
VADS: The Online Resource for Visual Arts
Artsy
Art.sy is a free platform to art from all over the world, a growing collection of 21,000+ artworks from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artists' estates worldwide. Powered by the Art Genome Project, the "Pandora" of the art world!
Europeana Image Collections
Portal to millions of items from Europe's cultural collections in galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Books and manuscripts, photos and paintings, television and film, sculpture and crafts, diaries and maps, sheet music and recordings, etc. Contains images, texts, sound, and videos.
Bildindex
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur contains over 2 million photographic reproductions of art and monuments in Germany and the rest of Europe. It is based on the original microfiche set, the Marburger Index.
Visual Collections (David Rumsey)
Collections of images are organized into 5 areas: Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and Other. Contains over 300,000 images from over 50 collections around the world.

Additional Digital Collections

DPLA: Digital Public Library of America
New York Public Digital Collections
Library of Congress | Digital Collections
BPI1700 (British Printed Images to 1700)
Digital collection of prints and book illustrations from early modern Britain. Prints can be searched by producer, person depicted, or by subject (topics based on the ICONCLASS system).

What is Artstor?

Interdisciplinary collection of over
2.5 million images.

NOTE: You must register for an individual user account in Artstor to fully use its features.

Google Arts & Culture

Explore museums worldwide and view artworks at incredible zoom levels. Walk through the galleries as if you were there! Interactive street-view-style interface. GOOGLE ARTS & CULTURE