Art & Art History
This guide is intended to help you get started with your art research.
Images
Artstor is an art, architecture, design, and culture image database consisting of over 1 million high-resolution digital images. It Includes QTVR (Quick Time Virtual Reality) 3-dimensional views of architectural sites and sculptures
Check out the online tutorials: YouTube ARTstor tutorials.
You must have an account in Artstor to download images, organize collections of images and to share these with other U of C users.
The Bridgeman Art Library Archive
The Bridgeman History of Science
National Gallery Collection
The Visual English Dictionary - Includes architectural diagrams
- 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
- Art auction database: "place to buy, sell and research fine art online"
Thumbnail resolution images only available
A growing collection of over 50,000 images
- Art auction database: "place to buy, sell and research fine art online"
- 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
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