History of Art

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.

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 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.

Helpful information from ARTStor on citation of images.

Provides integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history.

A growing database of over 370,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.

Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe.

Search or browse over 4,500 images of objects from the Getty Institute Collections.

Over 4000 newly available images owned by the Getty Research Institute or that are in public domain

Getty Open Content Images
Over 130,000 images available for free download from the Getty Image Collections.

A steadily growing digital image sampler from the George Eastman House holdings.

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.

Browsable and searchable database of LACMA's high resolution images.

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.

Over 375 open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection

Over 700,000 images from the NY Public Library's image collection.

Access to over 250 text, image, and finding aid collections that provide access to over a million digital objects.

Collections of digitized images of artworks, cultural and historical artifacts, etc., from museums and other sources maintained by the U-M Library.

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.

Rijksmuseum Collection
Search the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) Collection and use their "Rijksstudio" tool to save and create your own collection of images.

Smithsonian now makes nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections available for instant access, #SmithsonianOpenAccess

Search over six million records with 536,000 images, video and sound files and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives, and libraries.

Over 21,000 openly available images. Over 76,000 images available with authorization.

Provides access to 9000 openly available images, and over 10,000 images available with authorization.

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.

Victoria & Albert Museum Image Collections
Search over 1 million image and object records relating to objects in the Victoria & Albert collections.

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.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository with public domain and freely-licensed educational media.