Images & Sounds

"Every subject, concept, style and medium is represented, from the masterpieces of national museums to the hidden treasures of private collections."

"high definition images from the National Gallery, London. Each entry includes a description of the work along with its artist, medium, dimensions, aquisition credit, and date made."

Prehistoric Art -- Art of the Ancient Near East -- Ancient Egyptian Art -- Ancient Greek Art -- Etruscan Art -- Ancient Roman Art -- Early Christian Art -- Byzantine Art -- Art in Early Europe -- Islamic Art -- Early Medieval Art -- Gothic Art -- Renaissance Art in Italy -- Renaissance Art Outside Italy -- Baroque Art -- 18th-Century Art -- 19th-Century Art -- 20th-Century Art -- Contemporary Art -- Chinese Art -- Japanese Art -- Art in Africa -- Art of the Americas -- Art of India -- Art in Southeast Asia -- Art of Pacific Cultures -- Photography -- Prints -- Various & Miscellaneous -- Research Resources -- Art History News, Blogs, Videos & Podcasts

"is intended primarily to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large."

- search for artists by name, artworks by title, or art museums by name or location
- browse artists by name, medium, subject, nationality, or women artists by time period

"a collection of baskets and pottery, costumes and masks, textiles and other everyday objects."

NYPL Digital Collections for architecture, cityscape, infrastructure, monuments, town life

"a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web...search for buildings by country, city, style, title, architect, date of construction, as well as other fields"

Slides by Prof. Jeffery Howe covering architecture, painting & sculpture

"a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research"

"explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections"

provides links to images & rights statements from over 100 institutions such as the Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, Bibliotheque de Toulouse, etc.

"gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects"

"contains more than 1,600 articles about 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics."

"a considerable portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 140,000 images that are freely available and copyright cleared for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK."

"a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850)"

provides images of famous artworks for academic, educational use.