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Art and Archaeology of Africa (Columbia University)
Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
Art Resource (photo archive of images for sale)
DScriptorium: Medieval Manuscripts (Jesse Hurlbut)
Image Collections and Online Art (University of Michigan)
Looking for Art on the Web by Subject (Boston University)
Selected Specialized Image Collections
American Memory: Photographs, Prints, & Drawings (Library of Congress)
American Museum of Art (Smithsonian)
Art Images for College Teaching (Allan T. Kohl)
Artchive (Mark Harden)
ArtLex: Dictionary of Visual Art Terminology
(Sonoran Sky Elementary School, Scottsdale, AZ)ArtServ (Michael Greenhalgh, The Australian National University)
AskART.com (24,000 North American artists)Beazley Archive (Oxford University; Greek and Roman art)
Boston (Mass.) and Its Neighborhoods: Images
(Donald Altschiller and Ruth Thomas, Boston University Libraries)Bridgeman Art Library (UK, single source for images from museums, galleries, artists)
Carol Gerten's Fine Art--A Virtual Art Museum
Christian Iconography (Augusta State University)
Early English Books Online (EEBO) (Limit to items with images) BU
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Art Imagebase
Five College Museums/Historic Deerfield Collections Database
(Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Historic Deerfield, Mount Holyoke Museum, Smith College Museum of Art, University Gallery at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst)Grove Art Online and Grove Art Online Art Image Collections BU
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) Online Collections Database and Search the Database
National Databank on Indian art and culture, image collections
National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC)
Prints and Photographs (P&P) Online Catalog
(Library of Congress, search 1 collection or all 30)Shakespeare Illustrated (Emory University)
SPIRO (Architecture Slide Library, UC Berkeley)
THAIS: Architecture and THAIS: Italian Sculpture
Web Gallery of Art (Emil Kren and Daniel Marx)
Women Artists Through Time (University of Wisconsin-River Falls)
World Art Treasures (Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, Switzerland)
Lost Art Looted Artifacts
Africom: Heritage in Peril ( ICOM, International Council of African Museums)
Art Theft Program (US Federal Bureau of Investigtion)
European Paintings Provenance Research: Progress Report (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
International Cultural Property Protection Image Database (US State Department)
Lost Treasures from Iraq (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Provenance Research: List of websites (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
RedList Africa ( ICOM, International Council of Museums. African objects at risk from looting)
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Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer
rthomas@bu.edu (617) 353-3770