USEFUL LINKS

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Fine Arts Library

School of Fine Arts

Department of the History of Art

Indiana University Art Museum

IUB Libraries Homepage

IU Digital Library Program

General Art Sites

• Art History Resources on the Web. A list of sites by period.

• American Memory Collection Finder, Library of Congress

• Art Images for College Teaching, Allan Kohl, Minnesota College of Art & Design. Includes images from Adams, Gardner, Hartt, Janson, Stockstad and others.

• CGFA, Carol L. Gerten. Medieval to modern.

• Clearinghouse of Images Databases, University of Arizona

• Digital Imaging Project: Art Historical Images, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College. Sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern.

• The Freer Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Asian, Islamic, Near Eastern and American Art collection information and image.

• Getty Images. Photography, illustrations, archival material, and motion clips. The collections are rights managed and royalty free. Complimentary images with slight watermarks are available for download. Larger images are available for purchase, and the site has a page of resources and tools for managing purchased images and other services.

• The Getty Museum, research library, and the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA). There are links to explore the museum collections, conservation, research library, and other various research tools.

• The Hermitage Digital Collection

• Images of American Political History

• LA Public Library Photo Database

• Mark Hardin's Artchive

• San Francisco Fine Arts Museum Art Imagebase. Thinker Imagebase contains images of 82,000+ objects, representing approximately 12,000 artists fromthe collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.)

• Sculptor.org. Resources relating to sculpture from all periods. Over 350 pages of resources and tools.

• SILS Art Image Browser, University of Michigan, database of art, architectural, and museum object images.

• SPIRO: UC Berkeley Architecture/Slide Library Slide and Photograph Collection. Over 25,000 images from a collection of 200,000 slides.

• University of Michigan Image Source

• University of Washington Digital Collections

Ancient Art Sites

• The Tebtunis Papyri Project. Large images of papyrus documents

• Theban Mapping Project, the Valley of the Kings. Click on "Launch Atlas" to start.

Medieval Art Sites

• Christus Rex. Works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals and
  monasteries worldwide.

Early Medieval

• Ravenna. Click on "Immagini in movimento" to get to virtual tours of all the major monuments of Ravenna.

• Utrecht Psalter. Large images of all folios.

Gothic

• Amiens Cathedral. A major site with lots of different images; click on "Quicktime movies" to launch a virtual tour through the cathedral.

Renaissance and Baroque Art Sites

• Digital Image Center, University of Virginia, Photographs of Renaissance and Baroque Architectural Monuments, from Professor C. W. Westfall's Architectural History 102 class.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Art Sites

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record, University of Virginia

• Collage. An image database containing 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London.

• Gardens of the Sunlight: The Art of Impressionism. Collection of works from Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Paul Gauguin.