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Looking for Art in All the Right Places
Looking for Art by Subject on the Web
Metasites
Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
Image Collections and Online Art (University of Michigan)
General Sites
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive (Associated Press) BU
American Memory: Photographs, Prints, & Drawings (Library of Congress)
Art on the Web: Iconography (Boston College) (many broken links; try Googling titles)
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art Terminology (Sonoran Sky Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ)
Carol Gerten's Fine Art--A Virtual Art Museum: Search CGFA
Digital Scriptorium: Search Text Terms (use Title list)
Exploring Themes in American Art Abstraction, The Figure, Historical Subjects, Landscape Painting, Marine Painting, Portraiture, Narrative Art, Scenes from Everyday Life, Still Life, and Topographical Views
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Art: The Thinker ImageBase
Grove Art Online and Grove Art Online Art Image Collections BU
Lost Art Internet Database: Global Search
Manuscripta Mediaevalia: Handschriftendatenbank: click on Ikonographie
Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Expert Search: Words from descriptions
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands)Metropolitan Museum of Art: Search the Collection and Timeline of Art History
Museum of Fine Arts Boston: Search the Online Collections Database
National Gallery, London: Picture Library (subjects, themes, styles, timeline))
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC): Subject Search: genre and Expanded Search
National Historic Register: Themes
SILS Art Image Browser: browse and search
SPIRO (Architecture Slide Library, UC Berkeley)
Victoria & Albert Museum Access to Images (use "please select" menu)
Web Gallery of Art: Search (Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
World Art Treasures (Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Switzerland)
National Art Collections Databases
Art Inventory of American Painting and Sculpture (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
no imagesArtefacts Canada and Virtual Museum Image Gallery
Bildarchiv Foto Marburg:
Bildarchiv zur Kunst und Architectur in Deutschland Foto Archiv (Germany)
Joconde: Search Base Joconde (France)
Recherche simple
Recherche avancee
Recherche par listes
Reference Tools and WWW Search Engines
Art Index/Art Index Retrospective BU
Art reproductions. Use Article (document) Type menu to limit your search to art-reproduction. Enter keyword in search box.
Illustrations (figures in article text). Enter keyword in first search box; enter "illustration" in second search box. Click on full display. Artist and title of work illlustrated are in the Artist and Work field. Use a search engine or imagebase to look for the images on the Web.Arts & Humanities Citation Index BU
Illustrations (figures in articles). Choose Cited Ref Search. Enter keyword, e.g.," shipwreck," in Cited Work box. Select articles displaying ILL in the Volume column. Find the article in your library or use a search engine or imagebase to look for the images on the Web.Grove Dictionary of Art: Art Image Collections BU
(Bridgeman Art Library Search)Search Engines and Image Search Engines
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Page by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer
Prepared for Art Libraries Society/New England Chapter meeting,
November 3, 2000, at Boston University
rthomas@bu.edu (617) 353-3770
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/artimages.html