Research Guides: History of Art: Image Resources

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Art Source with Art Index Retrospective
Covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture, and also includes a database-specific thesaurus
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ARTstor
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International Bibliography of Art
An index to scholarly literature on Western art and art history, incorporating journal articles, monographs, essay collections, and conference proceedings. It is a successor database to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and the Répertoire International de la Litterature d'Art (RILA). IBA includes citations for works published or indexed from 2008 through the present.

For scholarship on Western art and art history that was published between 1975-2007, please consult the freely available BHA and RILA databases via the Getty Research Institute.

JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
U-M Library Catalog Search
Catalog Search results will include everything in our physical collection (books, audio, video, maps, musical scores, archival materials, and more), as well as materials available online such as electronic books, streaming audio and video, and online journals.
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Aluka
Includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.
American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
Historical Collections for the Library of Congress Digital Library. American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million digital items from over 100 collections.
AP Images
Online access to over 500,000 photos with detailed captions from the AP news wire. Includes all photos from US and abroad added in the previous 365 days (800 per day) plus many selected older photos from 1844 to the present. Updated continuously.
ARTstor
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.
Berg Fashion Library
Provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history.
CAMIO
OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online - is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.
CLAROS
CLAROS provides simultaneous searching of major university and museum collections for images of ancient Greek and Roman art.
George Eastman House Photography Collections Online
A steadily growing digital image sampler from the George Eastman House holdings.
Index of Christian Art
Provides subject and iconographic access to over 200,000 photographic reproductions of Christian art in the east and west from early apostolic times up to A.D. 1400. Includes bibliographies for all works of art covered.
LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Collection
Browsable and searchable database of LACMA's high resolution images.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
U-M Library Digital Collections
Access to over 250 text, image, and finding aid collections that provide access to over a million digital objects.
U-M Library Image Collections
Collections of digitized images of artworks, cultural and historical artifacts, etc., from museums and other sources maintained by the U-M Library.
NYPL Digital Gallery
Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Smithsonian Institution Collection
Search over six million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives, and libraries.
Victoria & Albert Images
V&A Images is a high quality, versatile picture agency. The ever-expanding image collection includes almost everything imaginable in the fine and decorative arts.
How to Cite Images
Helpful information from ARTStor on how to cite images.
Getty Open Access Images
Over 4000 newly available images owned by the Getty Research Institute or that are in public domain
Visual Resources Collection History of Art
The Department of the History of Art (HART) digital collection consists of original photography donated by faculty, images provided by other University collections, images digitized from slides, books, journals, and prints as well as digital images licensed from vendors.

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