Image Resources: Online Image Resources
Visual Resources Help Page
Museum Collections
Library Image Collections
- The Digital Public Library of AmericaDPLA is a major cultural heritage site that brings together the digitized resources of institutions all over the United States, including hundreds of thousands of images.
Features
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection. The Timeline extends from prehistory to the present day. - The Frick Collection Photoarchive
The Photoarchive is a study collection of more than one million photographic reproductions of works of art by fourth to mid-twentieth century artists trained in the Western tradition. Each photograph is accompanied by historical documentation that traces the essential elements of the biography of a work of art — changes of attribution, ownership, and condition. - MoMA Exhibition History
The Museum of Modern Art has digitized their entire exhibition history archive, from their founding in 1929 to the present. Includes installation views, checklists, press releases and complete exhibition catalogs.
HOLLIS
- HOLLIS Images
This is the Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. It includes content from archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University.
Access to the catalog is open to the general public.
Open Source Image Databases
- Bildindex der Kunst & ArchitekturOver 2 million photographs of art and buildings in Germany and Europe.
- EuropeanaPartnering with museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual archives across Europe, Europeana is a huge source of images and other digitized content in Europe.
- Flickr Creative CommonsMillions of high resolution images available for download. Best for architecture, cultural landmark, or contextual images.
- Google Arts & CultureContains extremely high resolution images of over 32,000 works of art from 46 museums worldwide.
- Web Gallery of ArtSearchable database of European fine arts and architecture (8-19th centuries).
- Wikimedia CommonsA database of millions of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute. These are not necessarily art images, but it can be a good source for buildings, outdoor monuments, and architecture.
- World ImagesThe internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.