Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Resources for images

Many museum web sites contain selections of images from their collections.

You may also wish to consult the Finding Images Online site from the Technical Advisory Services for Images (TASI) and the Finding Images on the Web guide at Boston University. Other suggestions: Visual Resources (Princeton) and Princeton University Library lists.

The Copyright Crash Course maintained at the University of Texas (Systemwide) web site has information on fair use, getting permission to reproduce words or images, and a wide variety of presentations on copyright for various audiences.

The Library of Congress has a helpful web page on citing electronic sources, including images.

Image collections

ARTstor is a large online digital image collection.

Almagest contains digitized images for study and class use, accessible throughout the campus.

CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) Online collection documenting more than 115,000 works of art from around the world. Images, text and multimedia represent a broad range of works of art from the collections of the members of the Art Museum Image Consortium.

The Archives of American Art website has been developed to accommodate the Archives' growing number of digital images and resources, and to foster research from its vast holdings as the world's largest repository of primary source documentation on the visual arts in America.

Art Index indexes images in periodical literature. To search for an image, select "Advanced search" and choose "Art reproduction" as the article type.

AP Photo Archive (AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) contains two photo databases, an international photo archive and a Euro/Asian photo archive, as well as a graphics' database.

Artcyclopedia is available via the Web. A commercial site, it is useful for locating images, though the information it provides on artists and artistic movements should be checked against a resource like the Grove Dictionary of Art.

The Bridgeman Art Library contains images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists. They represent museums, galleries and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of fine art for image users

David Rumsey's Visual Collections is a digital image collection portal that includes more than 300,000 works from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world. Combined, the collected works create an unparalleled online resource in the arts and humanities that is available for free, public access.

Galaxy of Images includes thousands of images from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, organized by collection but fully searchable.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online includes links to images in many of its articles.

New York Public Library Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Perseus Digital Library contains texts in Greek and Latin and in English translation, catalogue entries and images of pottery, sculpture, coins, buildings, sites, as well as an atlas and a dictionary.