Resources
GENERAL ART RESOURCES
Imagen | University of Arizona, School of Art and College of Architecture, Online Image Database. Authorized Users only.
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. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is a repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data, tools to actively use those images. Authorized/UA users only.
Grove Art Online | The Grove Dictionary of Art is a unique central reference source for the humanities in general: history, geography, theology, anthropology, archaeology, Classics and cultural studies, are some of the fields for which The Dictionary provides a global and in-depth introduction.
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Image resources
The Metropolitan Museum of Art creates, organizes, and disseminates a broad range of digital images documenting the rich history of the Museum, its collection, exhibitions, events, people, and activities. Many of these images are available for personal enjoyment, study, educational purposes, and scholarly publication, according to the Terms and Conditions of this website.
Metropolitan Museum of Art- Art History Timeline | The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection.
The Getty Research Institute | Contains terms, names, and other information about people, places, things, and concepts relating to art, architecture, and material culture.
Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) | The AAT is a structured vocabulary database of more than 133,000 terms, descriptions, bibliographic citations, and other information relating to fine art, architecture, decorative arts, archival materials, and material culture.
Union List of Artists, Names (ULAN) | The ULAN is a structured vocabulary containing more than 225,000 names and biographical and bibliographic information about artists and architects, including a wealth of variant names, pseudonyms, and language variants.
Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) | The TGN is a structured, world-coverage vocabulary of 1.3 million names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.
ARTSOURCE | Networked resources on Art and Architecture including libraries, events, images, museum information, exhibitions, etc.
David Rumsey Visual Collections | View maps, fine artwork, photographs and other items from over thirty renowned collections.
Art and Architecture, Courtauld Institute of Art | More than 40,000 images and a network of over half a million links.
ARCHITECTURE
Great Buildings Collection | More than 800 great buildings from around the world and across history are listed below and illustrated at this web with photographic images, architectural drawings, discussion, bibliography, architect info, and live 3D walkthrough computer models.
ArchNET Digital Library | Online community for architects, planners, urban designers, interior designers, landscape architects, and scholars, with a special focus on the Islamic world.
MUSEUMS
United States
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art Institute of Chicago
Los Angeles Museum of Art
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Smithsonian Museums
England
British Museum, London
British Library, London
France
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
Spain
Italy