Digital Image Collections: Art
General | Museums | Topical
General Collections
- UW Image Bank - Beta Version (UW Restricted) - Images of cultural production from diverse time periods and world cultures, and major monuments of world art and architectural history.
- CAMIO RLG's catalog of art museum images online (UW Restricted) - Includes photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry, and costumes.
- Artchive - Contains public domain and copyrighted works of scans from nearly 250 artists; lists of subjects include artist names and major movements.
- Artcyclopedia - Offers links to museum sites, image archives, and other online resources that contain an estimated 150,000 artworks by 8100 artists.
- Artnet - From galleries all over the world, a collection of 150,000 images from artists that range from Old Masters to contemporary art.
- Berger Foundation: World Art Treasures - A collection of over 100,000 digitized slides of major works of art in Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe.
- NYPL Digital Gallery: Arts and Literature - A sub-collection of images from the New York Public Libraries digital collection that focuses on artworks and objects, creators, dance, design, and furniture.
- Web Gallery of Art - A searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions.
Museum Collections
- British Museum - Features digital images of around 5000 objects from the huge range of periods and cultures represented in the British Museum.
- Capitoline Museum - Contains images and basic data regarding the works exhibited in the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
- Freer/Sakler Galleries - Contains nearly 6000 images of objects from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.
- Getty Museum - Contains images of many of the artworks held and displayed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
- Guggenheim Museum - Representing 169 artists, this online collection contains both classic works and more recent acquisitions from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
- Harvard University Art Museums - Provides access to basic information of the objects on exhibition in the Harvard University Art Museums as well as about 81,000 works of art.
- Metropolitan Museum - Provides access to images of about 6500 objects held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including highlights from each of the curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Painting and Sculpture.
- Museum of Fine Art - Contains images of 316,000 objects from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Museum of Modern Art - The online collection of the Museum of Modern Art represents 822 artists and 2237 objects from the departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media.
- National Gallery of Art - Contains text and/or data on all of the objects in the National Gallery's collection, and images of more than 5600 objects.
- National Portrait Gallery - Contains more than 80,000 portrait records from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.
- Smithsonian American Art Museum - Contains images of more than 19,000 of the 40,000 art objects in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection.
- Tate Online - An online database of 65,000 works plus an illustrated glossary from the Tate Collection based in the UK
- Tokyo National Museum Catalog - Images from the collection of the Tokyo National Museum. Site is viewable in English.
Topical Collections
- Age of King Charles V (1338-1380) - Contains 1000 illuminations from the Age of King Charles V, Department of Manuscripts, Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
- Creating French Culture : Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France - Images of 200 pieces of art tracing French political and cultural history from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris.
- Digital Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts - A searchable catalogue of digitized western illuminated manuscripts in the British Library collection
- IDP : International Dunhuang Project - Contains more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from the Dunhaung and other Silk Road sites during the first millennium AD.
- Illustrated Shakespeare, 1826-1919 - Contains a collection of 12 of Shakespeare's works, produced by various visual and book artists in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - Images from the calendar section of the Tres Riches Heures, a medieval book of hours which included calendars, prayers, psalms, and masses.
- Napoleonic Satires: a Brown University Library Digital Collection - Contains print and artistic caricatures and satires from Napoleon's years ruling in Europe.
- The George Ortiz Collection - Ranging from the Neolithic era to the Byzantine Empire, this collections offers images of works from around the world, with an emphasis on European sculpture and artifacts.
