Images: Art & Design
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General Art & Design
- Art Images for College TeachingArt and architecture images arranged by time period to parallel art history textbook organization.
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowImage library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. Broad coverage of visual culture from many time periods and areas of the world, including architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, and more.
- CAMIO [UW restricted]Art and design from American museums.
- New York Public Library's Arts and Literatures Digital GalleryImages of art and cultural objects from the New York Public Library, including dance, design, furniture, motion pictures, music, ornament, performance, spectacle, and theatre.
- UW Image Bank [UW restricted]Cultural production from diverse time periods and world cultures, and major monuments of world art and architectural history.
- Web Gallery of ArtA database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,900 reproductions
- VADS. The online resource for visual artsVisual art collections comprising over 100,000 images from institutional sources contributed for use in learning, teaching and research. Includes art, design, architecture, decorative art, fashion. UK-based.
Art Museum Collections
- British Museum, LondonFeatures digital images of around objects from the huge range of periods and cultures represented in the British Museum.
- Freer/Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.Images of objects from the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries.
- Getty Museum, Los AngelesContains images of many of the artworks held and displayed by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California.
- Guggenheim Museum, New YorkThis online collection contains selected classic works and more recent acquisitions from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkProvides access to images held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including highlights from each of the curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and the entire Department of American Painting and Sculpture.
- Museum of Fine Arts, BostonContains images of objects from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Museum of Modern Art, New YorkThe online collection of the Museum of Modern Art includes artists and objects from the departments of Architecture and Design, Drawings, Painting and Sculpture, Prints and Illustrated Books, and Film and Media.
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Contains text and/or data on all of the objects in the National Gallery's collection, and images of more than 5600 objects.
- Smithsonian American Art MuseumAmerican art, craft, and design from all regions, traditions, and cultures. Searchable and browsable by artist, work type, and subject.
- Tate Collection, BritainAn online database of works in the Tate Collection, plus an illustrated glossary.
- Yale University Art GalleryWorks from the Gallery, including paintings, decorative arts, arms and armor, and more. Searchable by department, classification, artist, etc.
Art & Design Special Topics
- accessCeramicsJuried collection of contemporary ceramics. Curated by faculty and staff at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR.
- Creating French Culture : Treasures from the Bibliotheque Nationale de FranceChronological highlights of French political and cultural history in art from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris
- Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, British LibraryMedieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the British Library, London.
- Domestic Interiors DatabaseRepresentations of domestic interiors from the Renaissance to the 20th century, showing room layout, furnishings, architecture, and domestic design.
- Getty Research Institute Special CollectionsSpecial Collections in the Getty Research Library, including the art of David Tudor, designs by El Lissitzky, and prints after Poussin.
- IDP International Dunhuang ProjectMore than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from Dunhaung and other Silk Road sites of the first millennium AD.
- Napoleonic SatiresCaricatures and satires of Napoleon's rule in Europe.