Subject Guides: Art Education: Images

Visual Arts Image Databases (BYU only)

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ArtStor This link opens in a new window

Images may be used for non-commercial, scholarly, and educational purposes.
Bridgeman Education This link opens in a new window

Images may not be used in anything that will be distributed or presented outside of BYU.
AskART This link opens in a new window
Index of Medieval Art This link opens in a new window

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