Digital Images of Art & Architecture

There are a variety of sources for digital images of art and architecture. The Art and Architecture Images section of UO's digital collections provides access to images that have been created or licensed by the Library primarily for instructional uses. The Library also subscribes to ARTstor, a database that provides access to nearly 1,000,000 digital images with sophisticated tools for viewing and presentation. Grove Art Online, the electronic version of the Grove Dictionary of Art, also provides access to a growing number of digital images.

Listed below are online image sources which are not provided or licensed by the University of Oregon. While links are checked regularly, some of the information concerning the rapidly changing world of online image sources may be dated.

An excellent overview of art on the web is "Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Parts I, II, and III", in Searcher: The Magazine for Database Professionals, Volume 12, September, October & November/December 2004

A selection of image sites

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
Art History Network
http://www.arthistory.net/
Art History Resources on the Web (Sweet Briar College)
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Art Images for College Teaching (Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/
Art on File
http://www.artonfile.com/
Art Resource (fine art stock photo archive for publication)
http://www.artres.com/
Artnet.com
http://www.artnet.com/
Asian Historical Architecture: A Photographic Survey
http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/
ASIANetwork

http://www.asianetwork.org/programs/luce/art.html

AskArt
http://www.askart.com/
Bridgeman Art Library
http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/
Cities/Buildings Database (University of Washington)
http://www.washington.edu/ark2/
Digital Archive of Architecture (Boston College)
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/arch/default.html
Digital Imaging Project (Bluffton College)
http://www.bluffton.edu/%7Esullivanm/index/index.html
Digital Images of Architecture
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/architecture/archimages.html
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ImageBase
http://www.thinker.org/fam/about/imagebase/index.asp
Foto Marburg/Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur
http://www.bildindex.de/
Google (advanced image search)
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
Great Buildings Collection
http://buildings.greatbuildings.com/
Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art

http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/

Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
Magnum Photos

http://www.magnumphotos.com/

Mary Harrsch's Museums of the World Flickr Collection

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124324682@N01/collections/72157600224843356/

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Timeline of Art History
http://www.metmuseum.org/
MOAC - Collections in California Museums
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/moac/
Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page
http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/
National Gallery (UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/default_online.htm
National Gallery of Art
http://www.nga.gov/collection/srchart.htm
New York Public Library Picture Collection
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
Online Archive of California
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/
Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange
http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=
Tate Gallery
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/QuickSearch
Visual Collections Portal (David Rumsey & Cartography Associates)
http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/
Web Gallery of Art
http://www.wga.hu/
World Art Kiosk (San Jose State University)
http://worldart.sjsu.edu/
Yahoo (advanced image search)
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/advanced

Maintained by: Julia Simic, jsimic@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 08/18/2009