Art Source is an EBSCO database that the University Library maintains a subscription for. Users may search for images within scholarly articles.

Includes the ARTstor Digital Library-a nonprofit resource that provides over 3 digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Its community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

Subscription-based materials library with thousands of innovative materials and processes across all disciplines of design.

Oxford Art Online offers access to some of the most authoritative, inclusive, and easily searchable online art resources available today. Through a single gateway users can search a range of Oxford’s art reference works such as Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as many specially commissioned articles and bibliographies available exclusively online. Users can specifically search for images by checking the "images" box under the search field in the top right corner.

Collections highlighting images developed to support the teaching and research needs at the College of Fine and Applied Arts

Collections from the Krannert Art Museum

The Ricker Library has a collection of artist books and zines.

The Met's online collection includes nearly 500,000 works of art, and highlights public domain images.

Include a database of over 105,000 digitized works.

Featuring an advanced search interface and nearly 20 million digitized items across 41 museums, the Smithsonian Collections are staggering.

One of the first museums to make its collection accessible online, the Riksmuseum has over 840,000 artworks and publications available through its collections portal.

The Collections database consists of entries for more than 500,000 works in the Musée du Louvre and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix.

Developed by Lewis and Clark College, this collection features "contemporary ceramics images by recognized artists. It is designed for use by artists, arts educators, scholars and the general public, and is intended to fill a void in contemporary ceramics digital image collections on the web. The images are stored within the Flickr photo sharings system, and accessible through this website as well as the Flickr interface." The images are very high quality and easy to find.

Included in this resource are more than 20,000 selections from AIGA’s annual juried design competitions dating from 1924 through the present. In addition, it features special collections of major American design firms and practitioners whose design accomplishments might otherwise not be preserved online or made available to the public.

An open-access online compendium containing thousands of unique images, documents, and media, the ACC Digital Collections detail the history of contemporary craft in America. From ACC newsletters and photographs to firsthand documentation of major national craft exhibitions, the digital collections offer makers, scholars, and craft appreciators a glimpse at some of the ACC Archives' most invaluable resources.

Items from the Package Museum, organized by brand and object.

Featuring 20 million items and growing, this digital portal into the Smithsonian covers a vast range of American history and culture through American art's development.

Allan T. Kohl created Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) as a personal, non-profit project designed 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." Images displayed on the site have been personally photographed by the Kohl, and the emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture reflects his research and teaching interests.

This site is the result of photographer Mark Katzman's passion for the art of the photogravure. Over 2,000 examples are included, as well as information about the process and a bibliography for further reading.

Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We are an online platform for discovering and collecting art. Our growing collection comprises 50,000+ artworks by 11,000+ artists from leading galleries, museums, foundations, and artists’ estates. Artsy provides one of the largest collections of contemporary art available online.

Art UK is the online home for every public art collection in the United Kingdom. It brings together art from over 3,400 British institutions in one of the UK's biggest-ever arts partnerships. It shows over 600,000 works by over 60,000 artists and is growing all the time.

From the University of Pittsburg, the digitized version of Audobon's seminal work. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign holds one of the original volumes in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and a facsimile copy is on display on the second floor of the Main Library near the grand staircase.

The Classical Art Research Centre leads and supports research on ancient art. At its heart is the Beazley Archive, which includes the world's largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at the Ohio State University houses the world's largest collection of materials related to cartoons and comics, including original art, books, magazines, journals, comic books, graphic novels, archival materials, and newspaper comic strip pages and clippings.

The CISP is the result of work by scholars at the University College, London. It is a collaborative, interdisciplinary study of Medieval Celtic Inscriptions that seeks to create a database of all known inscriptions. While the project was completed in 1999 and the site is no longer maintained, the database is still hosted. Sites throughout the UK are indexed alphabetically, and users must click through to find an image (typically a drawing) of an inscription.

An interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the classical tradition, a focus of Renaissance studies. Registered are the antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in the form of texts and images, and related information about locations, persons and periods as well as bibliographic data.

The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture identifies, records and publishes in a consistent format, English sculpture dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries. Currently two of the 10 volumes published to date of the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture are available. Users can view images by clicking on the link to the "catalog" for each chapter, and then selecting a specific site from the drop down menu. While not image heavy, this site provides excellent representative sculpture for each site listed with accompanying metadata and references.

Thousands of digital images from the Pierpont Morgan Library’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The collection spans some ten centuries of Western illumination, and contains manuscripts from all the major schools, including some of the great masterpieces of medieval manuscript art.

Diarna: The Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life is working to digitally preserve the physical remnants of Jewish history throughout the region. Images are organized geographically.

The Digital Dada Library provides links to scanned images of original Dada-era publication in the International Dada Archive. These books, pamphlets, and periodicals are housed in the Special Collections Department of The University of Iowa Libraries.

"The Digital Scriptorium is 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." The images can be both browsed and searched, and are high quality. They are available for educational use.

The Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland contains 572 manuscripts from 25 different libraries, and will be continuously updated and extended. The site is organized by collection, and indicates how many manuscripts are in a certain collection. The images are large and fantastic quality. Users can not view the collection without agreeing to the terms of use, which indicates that the images are available for non-commercial use.

More than 4,000 manuscripts housed in French libraries are reproduced here, available to users through both browsing and searching methods. If you don't speak French, the site can be difficult to navigate, but it is well worth the effort. I was not able to find information regarding copyright, so please contact the author if you intend to use images for more than classroom presentations or personal research.

Includes the Maya Vase database, Pre-columbian Portfolio, Montgomery Drawings Collection, and more. Image and metadata quality are inconsistent.

Museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries have contributed more than 40,000 high-resolution images of works ranging from oil on canvas to sculpture and furniture. Some paintings are available in ‘gigapixel’ format, allowing you to zoom in at brushstroke level to examine incredible detail. Use Google Street View to explore the interiors of landmarks such as the Palace of Versailles and The White House. Or, build and share your own virtual art gallery.

Nearly 300,000 original slides and photographs – photographic documentation of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), China, and Japan. The documentation covers in situ works of art and architecture ranging from approximately 2500 B.C.E. to the present, as well as pieces found in most major Asian, European, and American museums. This broad, yet detailed, collection contains predominantly Buddhist material, but also includes Hindu, Jain, and Islamic works as well. Currently hosted on the Internet Archive as the database transitions to a new provider for an improved experience.

Contains over 600,000 images of art and photography from France.

The Lost Art Internet Database contains data on cultural objects which as a result of Nazi persecution or the direct consequences of the Second World War were removed and relocated, stored or seized from their owners, particularly Jews, or on cultural objects where, because of gaps in their provenance, such a story of loss cannot be ruled out as a possibility. The database cannot be browsed, but images are generally provided with a description of the lost object.

Developed by the National Library of the Netherlands, this site contains about 10,000 images of Medieval manuscripts. The images are both browsable and searchable, and the site also contains a page of "highlights." Once a thumbnail is clicked, the images are beautifully displayed into a zoomable screen. The download button doesn't seem to work, so if you would like to display images from this site, you might want to do it directly from the website. Otherwise, the thumbnails are too small.

The database brings together drawings, prints, maps, ground plans and elevations, manuscript illuminations, paintings, early photographs, and other images made before c. 1950 to document sites in the medieval Kingdom of Sicily (c. 1100–1450).

Monoskop is a wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities. The focus of the content is avant-garde movements; this includes digitized avant-garde artists' books, journals, and other experimental forms of print making. The wiki contains a media library with links to several films.

This fascinating collection of objects illustrates the role of plastics in design and culture. It provides an in-depth history of the use of synthetic plastics since their invention in the middle of the 19th century up to the present day. The variety of objects includes items ranging from moulded furniture, telephones, and glasses to children's toys and cruet sets. The searchable catalog displays predominantly 20th and 21st century mass-produced design and popular culture, and the items support academic study.

This unique collection contains representative images of artist books in the Otis collection, with the intent of providing an educational resource for art historians, teachers, artists, and students. One can browse the collection, or search by author, publisher, book type, binding, process, or subject. The images are large and of fantastic quality.

This collection hosts over 280,000 images using a Polaroid instant camera. The collection can be searched based on tags or free text. As collection images are provided by the general public, the public is responsible for tagging individual pictures, which may affect the findability of pictures. Collection images are free for personal use

From the Bradshaw Foundation, this site features cave and rock art from across the world. Users can search by region on the menu on the left side of the screen.

A collection of engravings of Rome and Roman antiquities, the core of which consists of prints published by Antonio Lafreri and gathered under a title page he printed in the mid-1570's." The images are both searchable and browsable, and are accompanied by detailed metadata. In addition, users can view a zoomable image. This site is essential for anyone studying the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. All images may be used for scholarly purposes.

This website is derived from an exhaustive research on the Typographische Monatsblätter (TM) focussing on the issues from 1960 till 1990.
The Typographische Monatsblätter was one of the most important journals to successfully disseminate the phenomenon of ‘Swiss typography’ to an international audience. The print copies of this journal are available in the Main Stacks.

Containing over 39,000 digitized images from the Center's archives, artists represented include Ansel Adams to Ylla. The Center is committed to making its collections more accessible, and is continually digitizing photographs to make them available online.

VADS provides a national collection of over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections across the UK, which are freely available for non-commercial use in education. The images cover the broad range of the visual arts including applied arts, architecture, design, fashion, fine art, and media. VADS is a service of the Library at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA).