ONLINE IMAGE RESOURCES

Culled from the Visual Resource Association Listserv.

1. Artcyclopedia

The first place to start most art searches. It is a comprehensive art research site of thousands of artists, and you can search by movement, medium, subject, nationality or name. It includes links to individual artists’ works in galleries and museums. When you scroll down the screen, you will find web sites that feature the artist you pulled up in Artcyclopedia. This site lists artists from Gothic to Modern, but lacks some contemporary artists.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

2. Architectural images architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilizations.

http://www.archnet.org/lobby/

3. Access Ceramics:

http://accessceramics.org/

4. Great Buildings Online – extensive images and information on architecture around the world

http://www.GreatBuildings.com/gbc.html

5. Many and detailed Western art and architecture images

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index2.html

6. Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)

Developed by Allan Kohl at The Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Allan states that these images (all of them my own location photographs) were chosen to reflect the coverage of style periods and monuments in the most familiar art history survey textbooks. While all of these images also appear in ARTstor,

MDID, and other widely-used repositories, the user going through the AICT site is given explicit permission to use this content freely in any application, and for any purpose, that is educational and non-commercial in nature. This would of course include the free use of these photos in theses and other scholarly publications. Copies of the master TIFF files are available on request (again, at no charge for students to use in theses and dissertations).

http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html

 
7. A valuable resources for usable, reasonably-good-to-excellent-quality images:
 
http://worldimages.sjsu.edu

 
8. Smithsonian: This one URL is the gateway to multiple image databases
 
http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Art_and_Design/
 

9. Perseus Art & Archaeology

Has hundreds of images of everything from architecture - including plans - to ceramics from the Middle Bronze Age through the late Classical periods.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html

10. Chartres Cathedral

Over 3,000 images of Chartres cathedral.

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index

11. Floor plan of St. Peter’s Basilica. Click on the various monuments, chapels, etc. for detailed information. The images are not very large, but the information is very good.

http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/floorplan.htm 
 
12. Yale University – Japanese Art- 
They have an Asian support specialist who put together an extensive list of image resources on our LibGuide. Here is a direct link to the Japanese resources on her page:
 
http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=47735&sid=357059#Japanese
 
13. The Wellesley wiki does a really nice job of covering free and fair 
use web sites at 
 
http://digital-image-collections.wikispaces.com/