Online Resources

    • ARTstor: A digital library of nearly one million 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. Requires log-in.
    • Oxford Art Online: A scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art.
    • The Web Gallery of Art: Over 12,100 digital reproductions of European paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800.
    • The Getty Search Gateway: The Getty Search Gateway allows users to search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and open content images.
    • Digital Imaging Project: Art Historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to modern, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University
    • WorldImages: The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It has just been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collection of Internet materials. It contains approximately 100,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
    • The British Museum: View Highlights of the museum collection by culture, people, place, or material.
    • Art Cyclopedia: A guide to art on the Internet.
    • Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Timeline of Art History presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool. Authored by the Met’s experts the Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.
    • Art History Resources on the Web: A site maintained by Christopher Witcombe, Associate Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College.
    • Check out the Google Art Project to take virtual tours of some great museum collections. It’s a very nice implementation of Google’s Street View interface that lets you wander a very small slice of 17 worldwide museums, plus view certain selected artworks allow a high-resolution zoom.
    • Arttube: Videos about art and design.
    • Gothic Past: Visual archive of Gothic architecture and sculpture in Ireland.
    • The Art of Africa and the African Diaspora:
      The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record, Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr., The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. The 1,280 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public – in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.Africafocus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Africa Focus brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary resources: research and teaching materials collected by University of Wisconsin faculty and staff; and unique or valuable items related to these fields held by the University of Wisconsin Libraries. This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries. It is hoped that the search features of the collection will be a convenient aid to scholarship, study, and teaching of these disciplines.
    • SIRIS Image Gallery: Selections from Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives. The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives at the National Museum of African Art is a research and reference center with over 300,000 still photographic images documenting the arts, peoples and history of Africa over the past 120 years. Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973) was an internationally known photographer and filmmaker. He created an enduring visual record of African life from 1947 to 1973. Mr. Elisofon bequeathed to the museum his African materials, which included more than 50,000 black-and-white photographs and 30,000 color transparencies. The Archives has since added to its holdings important and varied collections from widely recognized photographers.