Image sources in our collection
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:
- A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data;
- The tools to actively use those images; and
- A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.
Grove Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols.) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001). There are over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings displayed in the text of articles, extensive image links, and search and navigation tools.
Image sources on the web
The following websites are suggested for research and study purposes only. Images on these websites are in many cases copyright protected prohibiting unlicensed users from reproducing images or parts of images in any form for commercial use. Some websites require user registration and login before images can be accessed.
TASI is an excellent source for finding and using digital images. In it you will find advice on Finding Images Online, Using Digital Images in Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Using Digital Images in Teaching Resources, File Formats for Teaching and Learning and much more....
Described as the largest resource for art images, containing
100,000 keyword searchable images from most of the world’s major
museums, monuments, and commercial archives. Search by artist,
period, subject, theme, museum or monument. Functions as the
official rights and permissions representative for many European,
American and other international art and cultural institutions.
Broadly covers western art from antiquity to the present, including
painting, sculpture, architecture, manuscripts, artefacts and sites
of the ancient world, design, prints, and photography. There is an option to register and login to
increase access.
This Australian National University site has international
coverage of the period up to World War II, after which images are
excluded for copyright reasons with the exception of architecture
open to the public. Most images freely available, although some are
available for a fee. Organised by country or place, medium or as
surveys.
Contemporary Australian visual culture including design,
craft, fashion, photography, painting, installation, interactive art
(flash animations, VR games, bioart and blogging), the moving image,
networked art (online art, electronic softscapes, tactical media,
software art, flash animations and net radio), sculpture,
performance and sound art. Browse by artist, curatorial theme or
categories of art form. This site is a collaborative effort from the
National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre For the
Moving Image.
Contemporary photography and photo based art in Australia. Images
can be browsed through links to online projects, exhibitions and
exhibition archives.
Printed works from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres
Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New
Zealand, New Caledonia and the Pacific region. References to prints and
printmaking in China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Free online access to 16,000
images. Search the database by artist, subject or print techniques
such as etching, woodcut, wood-engraving, linocut, lithograph,
screen-print, monotype and other print processes. Index to online
information on printmakers, print workshops, print publishers, print
galleries and public and private collections.
Australian art, architecture and film images from the collection
of the School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies at Monash
University.
Features Australian images as historical documents relevant to
Australia and the Australian people. Offers 40,000 photographs and
25,000 art images online.
Picture Australia enables searching of many significant online pictorial collections at the same
time and provides access to images that cover all aspects of
Australiana. Artworks include paintings, drawings, prints and
posters of abstract art, fine art and portraits, photographs,
objects including sculpture, scrimshaw, bark, costume, and weapons.
Online collections are organised into thematic exhibitions
encompassing past and contemporary American art and craft including
painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, furniture, weaving,
woodturning, and book design. Offers excellent search facilities for
artists and artworks by type and subject.
Over 6,000 images from the heritage collections of the State
Library of Tasmania can be searched by keyword or browsed by
subject, creator, format, or title. Past exhibitions can also be
explored online. The collection includes rare books, works of art,
prints, photographs, pamphlets, postcards, maps, posters,
manuscripts, decorative arts and printed ephemera. Most of the
visual material is from colonial or nineteenth-century periods and
relates to Tasmania.
The Stuart Collection of Sculpture at the University of
California, San Diego seeks to enrich the cultural, intellectual,
and scholarly life of the UCSD campus and of the San Diego community
by building and maintaining a unique collection of site-specific
works by leading contemporary artists.
Collections Online contains images held in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
Database can be searched by keyword or browsed through an
alphabetical category listing.
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and
thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as
illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Indexed
by region, special topic, subject, artist and time period.
European painting and sculpture between 1150 and 1800, including
useful biographies of significant artists. Aims to cover the
Renaissance period in depth. Offers a versatile search engine for
access to over 6,000 digital reproductions and guided tours to
facilitate understanding of the relationships between artworks and
artists. Links to an interesting companion site on Hungarian art.
Documents the practice, images, and writings of Australian women
artists. A diverse range of media and art disciplines, including
craft, design, photography, installation, are represented in the
archive, as well as various styles and all eras dating from the
Victorian period. Not all images available online.
Search over 35,000 images from throughout the world. Basic or
complex search features available. Search by title, century, medium,
or artist or browse the extensive index by period, movement,
subject, form, content or object.
Image Search Engines
Search for images by keyword. Contains options to limit results
by photo, graphic, buttons/banners, colour, source and size.
Includes links to audio and video search options.
Indexes more than 880 million images. Includes basic search features,
advanced search features including Boolean searching, preferences
and image search help. Advanced search results can be limited
by size, file types, colouration and domain.
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