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Art Image Collections
These links provide a starting point for finding visual arts images on the Internet.
Key Image Collections
ARTstor
International collection of digital art images, drawn from different sources, such as museums, archaelogical teams, photo archives, slide collections and art reference libraries. ARTstor has specific Terms & conditions and Technical requirements.
Grove Dictionary of Art Online
Useful for quick information on artists, art movements and the visual arts in general. Includes links to image collections in external web sites.
University of Sydney Art History and Theory Digital Image Database
This images database also includes SCA Images Online.
Other Useful Image Collections
CAGE – Cyber Art Gallery Eindhoven
Online gallery of contemporary artworks from around the world.
Finding Images Online
Directory of web image sites by Paula Berenstein, arranged by topics.
Getty Images
High quality creative and editorial images, news footage and music from this commercial website.
Intute: Arts & Humanities Image Banks
Extensive list of Art History image resources with useful descriptions. Can also be browsed by chronological period.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.
Picture Australia
Picture Australia provides access to images that cover all aspects of Australiana, including artworks, photographs and objects.
Smithsonian Images
Browse and search selected images from Smithsonian exhibitions, events and historic collections.
University of California Berkeley Library Image and Sound databases
Large collection of image and sound web links, some databases are restricted to University of California Berkeley access only.
VADS – The Visual Arts Data Service
Over 100,000 images free for use in art education.
Web Gallery of Art
A virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850).
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