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


Art Maps- The Tate Collection


Art Source


ArtNet


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


Google Arts and Culture


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


Republic of Letters


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



Aarhus Kunstmuseum


Art Institute of Chicago


Asian Art Museum of San Francisco


Baltimore Museum of Art


British Museum


Carol Jackson Fine Art


Cleveland Museum of Art


Cornell University Johnson Museum of Art


Denver Art Museum


Detroit Institute of Art


Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Imagebase


Frick Collection Madison, New York City


Getty Museum


Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao


Harvard Art Museums


Hong Kong Museum of Art


Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum


Kimbell Art Museum


Kunsthaus Zurich


Library of Congress, National Screening Room


Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)


Lourve, Paris


Metropolitan Museum


Minneapolis Institute of Art


Moscow Kremlin Museum


Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow


Museo Nacional del Prado


Museum of Fine Arts, Boston


Museum of Fine Arts, Houston


Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)


Musée d’Orsay


National Gallery London


National Gallery of Art (DC) – NGA Images


National Gallery of Australia


National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne


National Gallery Singapore


National Museum of Korea


National Museums Scotland


North Carolina Museum of Art


Norton Simon Museum


Oxford University Ashmolean Museum


Philadelphia Museum of Art


PMC Photographic Archive – Paul Mellon Center – 100,000 images of British art and architecture


Princeton University Art Museum


Rhode Island School of Design Museum


Rijksmuseum


Royal Academy of Arts, London


Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum


Shanghai Museum


Stanford University Cantor Arts Center


State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg


State Russian Museum


Tate Collection


Tokyo National Museum


Tretyakov State Gallery


University of California Las Angeles Hammer Museum


University of California Las Angeles Fowler Museum


University of Pennsylvania Penn Museum


Victoria and Albert Museum, London


Virginia Museum of Fine Arts


Walters Art Museum


Whitney Museum of American Art


Yale University Art Gallery