Art: Access images

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is committed to making a broad range of digital images of artworks in the public domain widely and freely available for scholarly and academic publication. To assist in navigating the vast image content on this website, the Museum has implemented Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC). Through OASC, artworks in the Collection section of the website which the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions have been identified by an icon, Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon; images associated with these artworks can be downloaded for license- and cost-free scholarly and academic publication, according to the Terms and Conditions.

Search over 7.99 million catalog records with 819,838 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from the Smithsonian's museums, archives & libraries.

A freely available resource, this site features eight units, each of which explores a different theme in Italian Renaissance art.

Researchers and students can explore thematic essays, more than 340 images, 300 glossary items and 42 primary source texts. An invaluable tool for use in the classroom, educators can integrate printable activity guides and discussion questions related to each unit into their course work.

This resource is a collaboration between the National Gallery of Art, Washington and Grove Art Online, made possible by the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts. More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use. NGA Images is designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration.

The Getty is making available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. No permission is required. Currently, the collection contains approximately 4,600 images with additions to come.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is one of the grand European museums and home to many of the Dutch masters. All those masterpieces are now available for close-up view online at the Rijksmuseum’s digitized collection. Users can explore the entire collection, which is handily sorted by artist, subject, style and even by events in Dutch history.

All artworks are outside copyright, and we therefore allow you to:

•Share the images – copy, distribute, and transmit them
•Remix the images – adapt and reuse them in new contexts
•Use the images for any purpose – for instance teaching, research, presentations, publications, film productions m.m., also for commercial purposes on the single condition that you attribute National Gallery of Denmark as the source of the image.

More than 20 000 works in 165 collections that are in museums, businesses, special deposits and private institution that were produced in the German Democratic Republic from 1945 until 1990. Site is in German.

Harvard University Art Museum's database dedicated to Bauhaus. The resource includes details on the museums’ collection of more than 32,000 works of art and items related to the Bauhaus, a chronology of the Weimar art school and a map detailing Bauhaus’s lingering presence in the Boston area.

Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection—from our world-renowned icons to lesser-known gems from every corner of the globe—as well as books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Your Paintings is a website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

The State Art Collection is now online! More than a third of the Collection, including all artwork acquired since 2005, can be easily found through My Public Art Portal and more will be added every week.

The Public Art Archive™ is a free, online and mobile accessible catalog of completed public artworks worldwide. The PAA project, launched in 2010, represents a national effort to increase public awareness and stewardship of public artworks, including the continually growing database, a Tumblr blog, various educational initiatives, and local community engagement efforts.

Powered by The Art Genome Project, Artsy is a free website with a library of 50,000+ images from 650+ museum, nonprofit, and gallery partners, social media tools for telling stories about art, and e-commerce functionality to facilitate gallery sales and institutional fundraising. Artsy Education offers the ability to download 25,000+ open-access images.

Partnership between Google and over 250 institutions that contains works of art from more than 6,000 artists online, and more than 45,000 objects available to view in high resolution.

An internet archive of public domain artworks.

An internet archive of public domain artworks.

Collections from around the world that provide digital scans or photos that can be freely used without any restrictions.

A growing database dedicated to providing you with exceptional and unique images from the collections of the British Architectural Library at the Royal Institute of British Architects, the world’s most extensive visual archive devoted to architecture.

Discover online collections and exhibitions about the history, locations and artists of street art.

A database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions