The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

"The Bridgeman Art Gallery, Getty Images, the Science Photo Library, Ingram Publishing, the National Geographic Society, and other trusted image sources have joined with Britannica to provide the best and broadest offering of curriculum-relevant imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts, and cool vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use."
--Britannica

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

View over 12,000 images from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The collection contains images that range from ancient to contemporary, and encompass virtually all of the world’s principal cultures. Many of the images can be downloaded for educational use.

"The Bridgeman Art Gallery, Getty Images, the Science Photo Library, Ingram Publishing, the National Geographic Society, and other trusted image sources have joined with Britannica to provide the best and broadest offering of curriculum-relevant imagery and clip art materials (infographics, signs and symbols, graphic concepts, and cool vector illustrations), all rights-cleared for educational, non-commercial use."
--Britannica

Contains:

• Grove Art Online
• The Benezit Dictionary of Artists
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
• Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
• The Oxford Companion to Western Art

• the most comprehensive online reference resource for visual arts
• continually updated worldwide coverage from prehistory to the present day
• includes: painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, photography
• signed articles with bibliographies
• includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
• image search includes 5,000 images from MOMA, the Met, AICT, and The Artists Rights Society; over 40,000 images from selected gallery and museum websites link to subject entries

SEARCH TIPS
If you are looking for images, note that the IMAGE SEARCH on the first screen includes only selected images; for more images, locate the text information on your topic, and click on the IMAGES tab on this screen to get related images

Over 100,000 art and design images are available for use in learning, teaching, and research. Create an account to save and download images from the available collections.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 14,500 reproductions.

An online historical map collection with over 38,000 maps and images. The collection focuses on rare 18th and 19th century North American and South American maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the world, Europe, Asia, and Africa are also represented. Images can be downloaded for educational use.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that provides free access to books, comics, images, video, music, archived websites, and other cultural artifacts. Most materials can be downloaded for offline use.

• online catalog provides access to records from the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress
• many of the records include digital images, about one million in all
• information provided on downloading or obtaining copies from the Library's Photoduplication Service
• excellent resource for the researcher
• Note: not all images in the public domain

Contains "millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1950s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera and more.

PHDIL, the Philadelphia Historical Digital Image Library, is a grant-funded collaborative effort between the Scott Memorial Library of Thomas Jefferson University and The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, containing over 3,000 images of a variety of photographs, art works, and portraits. The collection includes pre-1945 portraits of alumni, faculty, and trustees; scenes from hospitals; views of 19th and early 20th century anatomy/dissection labs, and nurses in practice. Also included are views of everyday life in Philadelphia at the turn of the century, and a number of Benjamin Ridgeway Evans watercolor drawings of Philadelphia buildings and streetscapes during the mid 19th century.