Finding Images : Art & Architecture

accessCeramics is a growing collection of images of contemporary ceramics by recognized artists. It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web.

AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study and appreciate great design. It represents the quality of work being created, as well as shifting aesthetics and sensibilities of the designers of the day. Included in this resource are more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present.

Search over 6000 artists to find their works in museum collections or browse by movement, medium, subject, or nationality.

This growing collection comprises 17,000+ artworks by 3,000+ artists from leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates. Art.sy works with 300+ of the worlds leading galleries, museums, private collections, foundations, and artist estates from New York to London, Paris to Shanghai, Johannesburg to Sco Paulo. Powered by The Art Genome Projectan ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of artArt.sy creates new pathways for discovering art through 800+ characteristics (we call them genes). Users can discover works through connections between art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities, creating infinite serendipitous opportunities for discovery and learning.

A free-use image resource for the educational community arranged by art historical period and keyed to major art historical textbooks, i.e. Janson, Gardner, Hartt.

The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity.

Source of fine art images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists from museums, galleries and artists throughout the world. Offers basic, advanced and inspirational searches along with reproduction rights requirements.

The Digital Scriptorium is an image database for 5,300 manuscripts and for 24,300 images of medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research.

Provides access to information and images of over 60,000 objects held in the collections of Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Historic Deerfield, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Smith College Museum of Art and the University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Search several picture and film archives collections, including the Hulton Picture Archive, National Geographic, Time Life, Bridgeman Art Library.

High-resolution images of selected works from 16 museums around the world, including Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Versailles; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence; Museum Kampa, Prague; and more...

More than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from Dunhaung and other Silk Road sites of the first millennium AD.

James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590-1920 is a database of approximately 5,000 pictures of African art published before 1921.

A collection of over 500,000 images from across French museums

NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the New Yorl Public Library's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Over 30,000 images from clasical art and archaeology

Over 470 000 photographs of works of art collected in the national and regional museums of France--museums such as the Louvre, Orsay, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Picasso Museum.

Visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion.

Includes Cartography, Fine Arts, Architecture, Photography, and other image. Digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world - by Cartography Associates (David Rumsey)

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.

Over 80,000 images from the California State University IMAGE Project.