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African Studies – Cultural Crossings: A Gender Imagebase - Emory University
http://www.ias.emory.edu/imagebase.cfm

Alltheweb Picture Search http://www.alltheweb.com/ (choose pictures tab)

AltaVista Image Search http://www.altavista.com/image/default

Ancient Near East Photographs http://content.lib.washington.edu/neareastweb/index.html

Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection (Cornell University) http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/adw.asp

Archinet http://www.archinect.com/index.php
Online destination for progressive-design oriented students, architects, educators, and fans.

Art and Architecture of Mexico http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/mexico/mexicoindex.html

Art History Resources on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html
Comprehensive source for all periods of art history, created by art historian, Christopher Witcombe.

Art Images for College Teaching http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/

Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/
The Art Institute currently has about 2,600 works of art from the collection included in their online searchable database. More object records will be added to this site on an ongoing basis.

Art on the Web http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/Artweb_frames.html
1,200 links to art and architecture resources created by Jeffery Howe, Boston College.

Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Searches major museums and private image collections. Provides access to 180,000 works of art.

Arts of the United States http://web.library.emory.edu/databases/#databases
A joint project between the Lamar Dodd Art School, University of Georgia and the University of Georgia and Yale University Libraries, contains over 4000 images of works important to the study of the history of art in the United States. The pieces, dating from the 17th century through the 20th, include architecture, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, and stage and costume design as well as Native American art and artifacts. Although the majority of artists represented in the database are American, significant works created by non-native artists while in the United States are included.

ARTStor http://www.artstor.org/
A digital image library of over 300,000 images and descriptive information related to art, architecture and archeology.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Digital Images Online - Yale University http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/

British Museum Images http://www.bmimages.com/Index.asp
Images depicting world culture and history including ceramics, sculpture, prints, drawings, and paintings.

Canadian Architectural Archives http://www.caa.ucalgary.ca/lcr_caa/viewsof20thcentury
This fully searchable collection of over 10,000 images represents the birth of the modern Canadian city and the critical role that the built environment has played in the history and heritage of the country.

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/CasselmanImageAbout.shtml

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society http://www.crmsociety.com/

Charles Rennie Mackintosh pages by Armin Grewe http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm.htm

Chartres Cathedral http://gallery.sjsu.edu/chartres/home.html

Chartres, Cathedral of Notre-Dame
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index

Colby College Guide to Image Resources http://www.colby.edu/academics_cs/library/helpwithassignments/subject-guides/images.cfm

Corbis http://pro.corbis.com/

Corsair, Online Research Resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library, Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm

CTI - The Center for Technology Initiatives - Emory University
http://cti.library.emory.edu/

Cupola - Buildings and Structures http://www.cupola.com/bldgstr1.htm

Digital Egypt for Universities http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/

Digital Imaging Project (Bluffton University) http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/

Digital Librarian - Art http://www.digital-librarian.com/art.html
An extensive list of links to art images maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York.

Digital Scriptorium http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/

Ditto Visual Search http://www.ditto.com/default.aspx

Egypt Archive http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/index.html

flickr http://www.flickr.com

Frank Lloyd Wright – Wasmuth Portfolio (University of Utah) http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/collections/wright/

Free Stock Photos - Egypt -http://freestockphotos.com/Egypt.html

Gallica, La Bibliotheque Numerique http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Over 80,000 images representing drawings, photographs, and manuscripts from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

George Eastman House List of Photography Collections Online http://www.geh.org/

Getty Center - http://academic.reed.edu/getty/index.html
Over 600 images of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Getty Images http://www.gettyimages.com
Contemporary photography, illustration and archival images.

Glenn Gunhouses's Internet Resources for Students of Medieval Art
http://medievalist.net/resource.htm

Global Egyptian Museum http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.com/
At a rough estimate, over 2 million objects from ancient Egypt are kept in about 850 public collections, dispersed over 69 countries around the world. This website aims to collect them into a global virtual museum, which can be visited at any time, from any place. The Global Egyptian Museum is a long-term project, carried out under the aegis of the International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG).

Global Museum http://www.globalmuseum.org/

Google Image Search http://www.google.com/ (choose images tab)
Searches billions of images on the web.

Graphische Sammlung Stift Göttweig http://www.gssg.at/gssg/displayWelcome.do
The print collection of Göttweig Monastery is Austria's largest private collection of historical graphic art.

Great Buildings Collection http://buildings.greatbuildings.com/

Grove Art Online http://www.groveart.com/grove-owned/art/image_collections.html

Historic Illustrations of Art and Architecture http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=hiaaic;g=arch-ic
Engravings, line drawings and plans originally published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Index of Christian Art http://ica.princeton.edu/

Info Today http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep04/mattison.shtml
Info Today article, "Looking for Good Art - Web Resources and Image Databases, Image Retrieval, and Glorious National Collections" includes numerous links and information on how to locate images.

Insight at Emory http://it.emory.edu/showdoc.cfm?docid=1572
Insight at Emory currently hosts the digital images collection of the Art History Department's Visual Resources Library, and also provides access to over 200,000 digital images in more than a dozen digital image collections at other institutions.

International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) http://www.medievalart.org/htm/resources.html

Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services - Emory University
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/

Lewis Walpole Library Digital Collection (Yale University) http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/digital_collection.html
11,000 digital images with a focus on English caricatures and political satirical prints from the late-seventeenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, works by Bunbury, Woodward, Gillray, Rowlandson, and Newton, among others, and prints, drawings, and watercolors related to Horace Walpole's collection and house at Strawberry Hill.

Lycos Multimedia Search http://multimedia.lycos.com/ (choose images and video tab)

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
A searchable collection of images created by Leo C. Curran

Maya Cities - Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil and Labna - http://academic.reed.edu/uxmal/
Architecture, Restoration and Imaging of the Maya Cities of Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, and Labna, the Puuc Region, Yucatan, Mexico

Mesoamerican Photo Archives http://www.mesoamerican-archives.com/

MexOnline.com http://www.mexonline.com/precolum.htm

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page http://art-design.umich.edu/mother/

Musee http://www.musee-online.org/
Links to 37,000 museums around the world.

Museum Stuff http://www.museumstuff.com/
Links to all kinds of museums all over the world.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

NICE - The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/NIRP/
NICE Paintings is the first phase of a unique on-line inventory of all the 22,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings in the UK's public collections. The database has been created by the National Inventory Research Project (NIRP), based at the University of Glasgow. It contains detailed records, and an increasing number of digital images, of nearly 8,000 paintings, principally in smaller regional collections. Additional records and images are being added as further funding becomes available.

Ostia Museums http://www.ostia-antica.org
A collection of photographs of objects from Ostia in various museums.

Paradox Place http://www.paradoxplace.com/
Over 4000 high quality images of "Europe, the Middle East and Asia, from the end of the Western Roman Empire through the Early and High Middle Ages and the Renaissance, to the emergence of the Nation States of Early Modern Europe - a period spanning roughly the years 500 to 1600." Includes maps, chronologies, timelines, artist pages. Website created by Adrian Fletcher.

Peregrinations, International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/welcome.html

Perseus Project http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
The Perseus Project is an evolving digital library of resources for the study of the ancient world. Includes online primary texts, images and object info from a variety of museum collections, tools for word searches, resources for teaching.

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/
Over 94,000 images covering three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers.

Photographic Portraits of American Artists http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/julquickstart.htm
4,700 photographic portraits of artists by the New York photographic firm of Peter A. Juley & Son taken from 1906-1975.

Pitts Theology Library - Digital Image Archive - Emory University http://www.pitts.emory.edu/dia/woodcuts.htm
Images from sixteenth—nineteenth century volumes.

Pylos Regional Archaeological Project http://river.blg.uc.edu/prap/

Real Virtual / Representing Architectural Time and Space - Columbia University
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/ha/index.html
360 degree panoramas and interactive plans

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html
The images included in this collection were scanned from slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH 102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.

Resource Library http://www.tfaoi.com/resourc.htm
An online publication devoted to American representational art published by Traditional Fine Arts Organization.

Rome Reborn http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
Created by the University of Virginia's Bernard Frischer, Rome Reborn will eventually show its evolution from Bronze Age hut settlements to the Sack of Rome in the 5th century AD and the devastating Gothic Wars.

SAGE - Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory
http://sage.library.emory.edu/

Saint Albans Psalter - University of Aberdeen
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/index.shtml

Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange http://www.sah.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=11&meid=9

Southern Digital Archives Conspectus http://southconspectus.library.emory.edu/SPT--Home.php
This site is a conspectus of digital collections concerning Southern cultures and histories, created as part of the MetaScholar Initiative at Emory University and the DLF Aquifer project.

SPIRO Slide and Photograph Image Retrieval Online (University of California, Berkeley) http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html

Stoa Consortium http://www.stoa.org/

Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/
A searchable, comprehensive, archaeological database of Thebes. Includes 3-D computer models of the tombs.

University of California, Berkeley, Image Finder
http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu:8088/ERF/servlet/ERFmain?cmd=searchResType&resTypeId=14

University of Michigan Papyrus Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

Visual Collections http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/
Over 300,000 images from 50 collections, including maps, fine art, architecture, and photographs. Excellent source for high-resolution, historical maps.

Web Gallery of Art http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 16.200 reproductions.

Wikimedia Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
A database of over one million media files.

WWW Medieval Resources http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html

WorldImages http://worldimages.sjsu.edu/
Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Institute for Education and Research. It contains over 50,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into some 500 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.

DIGITAL IMAGES AT EMORY

African Studies – Cultural Crossings: A Gender Imagebase
http://www.ias.emory.edu/imagebase.cfm

ARTStor Digital Image Collection http://www.artstor.org
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 750,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Emory Art History Department digital image collection can also be found in ARTstor.

The images in ARTStor can be used by Emory faculty, staff and students for educational purposes. You can use ARTStor's own image presentation tool, known as the Offline Image Viewer (OIV), or you can export the images for use in other presentation software such as PowerPoint.

ARTStor is completely web-based. There is no software to download in order to use ARTStor. The web address for ARTStor is: http://www.artstor.org

CTI - The Center for Technology Initiatives
http://cti.library.emory.edu/

DATABASES AT EMORY http://web.library.emory.edu/databases/#databases
The following image sources can be accessed through the above web page:

Arts of the United States, a joint project between the Lamar Dodd Art School, University of Georgia and the University of Georgia and Yale University Libraries, contains over 4000 images of works important to the study of the history of art in the United States. The pieces, dating from the 17th century through the 20th, include architecture, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, and stage and costume design as well as Native American art and artifacts. Although the majority of artists represented in the database are American, significant works created by non-native artists while in the United States are included.

Grove Art Online - over 200,000 images

Insight at Emory http://it.emory.edu/showdoc.cfm?docid=1572
The Visual Resources Library contains a rapidly growing collection of over 100,000 digital images which are available in our digital image database, known as Insight. Insight also provides access to over 200,000 digital images from other institutions. Insight is a digital media storage, management, and delivery system designed for research and teaching. Insight makes it easy to work with digital image files and also supports audio, video, and virtual reality.

The images in Insight can be used by Emory faculty, staff and students for educational purposes. You can use Insight's own image presentation tool, or you can export the images for use in other presentation software such as PowerPoint.

The steps for getting started with Insight are as follows:

1. Download the Insight client software (version 5.6) from Emory's Software Express (restricted Emory-only access).

2. Launch the Insight 5.6 software client and log into the system using your Emory username and password.

Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/

Pitts Theology Library - Digital Image Archive http://www.pitts.emory.edu/dia/woodcuts.htm
Images from sixteenth—nineteenth century volumes.

SAGE - Selected Archives at Georgia Tech and Emory
http://sage.library.emory.edu/

DIGITAL IMAGES BY SUBJECT AREA

ANCIENT AMERICAN

Art and Architecture of Mexico http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/mexico/mexicoindex.html

Mesoamerican Photo Archives http://www.mesoamerican-archives.com/

MexOnline.com http://www.mexonline.com/precolum.htm

ARCHITECTURE

Andrew Dickson White Architectural Photographs Collection (Cornell University) http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/adw/adw.asp

Archinet http://www.archinect.com/index.php
Online destination for progressive-design oriented students, architects, educators, and fans.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society http://www.crmsociety.com/

Charles Rennie Mackintosh pages by Armin Grewe http://www.armin-grewe.com/crm/crm.htm

Cupola - Buildings and Structures http://www.cupola.com/bldgstr1.htm

Frank Lloyd Wright – Wasmuth Portfolio (University of Utah) http://www.lib.utah.edu/digital/collections/wright/

Getty Center - http://academic.reed.edu/getty/index.html
Over 600 images of the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Great Buildings Collection http://buildings.greatbuildings.com/

Philadelphia Architects and Buildings http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/
Over 94,000 images covering three centuries of Philadelphia buildings and designers.

Real Virtual / Representing Architectural Time and Space - Columbia University
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/ha/index.html
360 dgree panoramas and interactive plans

Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange http://www.sah.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=11&meid=9

CLASSICS

University of Michigan Papyrus Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

EGYPTIAN

Ancient Near East Photographs http://content.lib.washington.edu/neareastweb/index.html

Digital Egypt for Universities http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/

Digital Imaging Project - Egypt Index (Bluffton University) http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/egypt/egyptindex.html

Egypt Archive http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/index.html

Free Stock Photos - Egypt -http://freestockphotos.com/Egypt.html

Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/
A searchable, comprehensive, archaeological database of Thebes. Includes 3-D computer models of the tombs.

University of Michigan Papyrus Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

GREEK

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
A searchable collection of images created by Leo C. Curran

Pylos Regional Archaeological Project http://river.blg.uc.edu/prap/

Stoa Consortium http://www.stoa.org/

University of Michigan Papyrus Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

ISLAMIC

Casselman Archive of Islamic and Mudejar Architecture in Spain http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Arts/subcollections/CasselmanImageAbout.shtml

MEDIEVAL

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Electronic Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/

Chartres Cathedral http://gallery.sjsu.edu/chartres/home.html

Chartres, Cathedral of Notre-Dame
http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index

Corsair, Online Research Resource of the Pierpont Morgan Library, Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
http://corsair.morganlibrary.org/ICAIntro/ICAintroshortdesc.htm

Digital Scriptorium http://www.byu.edu/~hurlbut/dscriptorium/

Glenn Gunhouses's Internet Resources for Students of Medieval Art
http://medievalist.net/resource.htm

Index of Christian Art http://ica.princeton.edu/

International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) http://www.medievalart.org/htm/resources.html

Internet Medieval Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.htm

Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/

Peregrinations, International Society for the Study of Pilgrimage Art
http://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/welcome.html

Saint Albans Psalter - University of Aberdeen
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/stalbanspsalter/index.shtml

WWW Medieval Resources http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/medieval/medieval.ebbs.html

MUSEUMS

Global Museum http://www.globalmuseum.org/
Current news and links to museums.

Mother of All Art and Art History Links Page http://art-design.umich.edu/mother/museums.html
Links to museum websites.

Musee http://www.musee-online.org/
Links to 37,000 museums around the world.

Museum Stuff http://www.museumstuff.com/
Links to all kinds of museums all over the world.

Ostia Museums http://www.ostia-antica.org
A collection of photographs of objects from Ostia in various museums.

NATIVE AMERICANS

American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection (University of Washington Libraries)
http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/
The digital databases includes over 2,300 original photographs as well as over 1,500 pages from the Annual Reports of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior from 1851 to 1908 and six Indian treaties negotiated in 1855.

Edward S. Curtis's "The North American Indian"
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html
This digital collection presents the 2228 illustrations from The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis.

Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains - Online Image Database
http://www.lib.montana.edu/digital/nadb/

Pueblo Pottery - Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/div/pottery/

PHOTOGRAPHY

George Eastman House List of Photography Collections Online http://www.geh.org/

ROMAN

Maecenas: Images of Ancient Greece and Rome http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/
A searchable collection of images created by Leo C. Curran

Ostia Museums http://www.ostia-antica.org/museums.htm
A collection of photographs of objects from Ostia in various museums.

University of Michigan Papyrus Collection http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/

If you find links that are no longer working, or if you know of a website that you'd like to see included here, please contact Frank Jackson in the Emory University Art History Department.

Last update: APRIL 14, 2008

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