Art & Art History
This guide is intended to help you get started with your art research.
Images
(UofC only)
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