Art History: Image Resources (general) and Lists of Artists
Art History Resources on the Web
Art History Resources Site Index – Comprehensive art history database organized by location and type
Art Institute of Chicago Digital Publications – Database of online publications for art in the Art Institute of Chicago permanent collections
Artstor Digital Library – Image library featuring over 2 million images from 290 collections
Brown University Art and Architecture Resources page. Includes a vast amount of resources in many disciplines
The British Library’s collections on Flickr Commons
Brown University LibGuides. Very in-depth guides to research in all areas of study.
David Rumsey Map Collection– Collection of high resolution Creative Commons maps.
Digital Bodleian – Rare books, manuscripts, and other treasures from the Bodleian Libraries and Oxford college libraries.
DIRT Directory – Online directory of digital resources organized by task.
Getty image catalog – Featuring images from the Getty collections as well as Open Content images.
Getty Publications Virtual Library – Database of publications organized by art history subject, over 300 publications accessible for free download
Harvard Research Guides. Suggest searching by subject depending on the starting point of research.
Mapping Paintings- Explore the provenance records of hundreds of paintings and visualize your own research across time and space
MetPublications – Full-text titles
Mother of All Art History Link Pages
New York Public Library Digital Collections. Containing Digitized works spanning many genres and periods
New York Public Library – Public Domain images in the NYPL database. Over 180,000 images.
PICRYL – The World’s Largest Public Domain Media Source
Project Muse- Art & Architecture Monographs
Science Photo Library – Contains Rights Managed and Royalty Free images related to the sciences from both real life photography and art works.
Shared Shelf Commons – Free, open-access library of images. From the creators of Artstor
University of Toronto Library – Art History Research Guide
World Images – California State University IMAGE project of approx. 100,000 images.
Yale University Library Research Template – Guides for starting research, finding sources, citing sources, and suggestions for related publications
Museum Collections
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Imagebase
Frick Collection Madison, New York City
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Library of Congress, National Screening Room
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
National Gallery of Art (DC) – NGA Images
National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne
Oxford University Ashmolean Museum
PMC Photographic Archive – Paul Mellon Center – 100,000 images of British art and architecture
Princeton University Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum
Stanford University Cantor Arts Center
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
University of California Las Angeles Hammer Museum
University of California Las Angeles Fowler Museum
University of Pennsylvania Penn Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Whitney Museum of American Art