Art & Art History

This guide is intended to help you get started with your art research.

Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. Artstor’s collections also include Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all. All content in Artstor is rights-cleared for education and research — you are free to use it in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.

You must have an account in Artstor to download images, organize collections of images and to share these with other UCalgary users.
Check out the online tutorials: YouTube ARTstor tutorials.

Art Project
- "Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces."
- ARTstor and Google project
Art Renewal Center
- Includes an online museum with >65,000 images focusing on realistic art
Art Resource
Artcyclopedia
Artnet
Artsy : A growing collection of over 50,000 images
Art auction database: "place to buy, sell and research fine art online"
Thumbnail resolution images only available
Axis
- For information on contemporary British visual artists
Basel Mission Picture Archive
- Photographs taken at the intersection of European, African, and Asian cultures from 1850 to 1950
Bridgeman Art Library
- Thumbnail size images. For better resolution, access through Credo Reference (UofC only).
Canadian Art Database (York University)
Corbis
Cybermuse
- National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Search collection or browse Artist's Index
Fashion Plate Collection
Getty Museum - Open Content
PhotoGraphic Libraries.com
Victoria & Albert Museum Access to Images
Visual Arts Data Service
Visual collections: images of art, history and culture
- Includes Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and other images
- Digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)
Web Gallery of Art

Museums