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Art Images

Fogler Library's Print Sources

  • Illustration index REF Fine Arts N7525.V3
    Indexes illustrations from books and periodicals published between 1950 and 1988

  • Illustration index REF Fine Arts N7525.A672 1998
    Indexes mainly photographs from periodicals published between 1992 and 1996

  • Index to illustrations REF Fine Arts NC996 .E62
    Indexes illustrations from books and periodicals

  • Index to reproductions of American paintings REF Fine Arts ND205.M57; REF Fine Arts ND205.S575
    Indexes paintings by American artists that are reproduced in books and museum catalogs

  • Index to reproductions of European paintings REF Fine Arts ND45.M6
    Guide to paintings by European artists that are reproduced in 328 books

  • Index to two-dimensional art works REF Fine Arts N7525.K67
    Indexes "all art produced in color on a flat surface" from books published between 1960 and 1977

  • Index to art reproductions in books REF Fine Arts N7525.H48 1974
    Indexes illustrations from books

  • Print index REF Fine Arts NE90.P17 1983
    Indexes illustrations in books of prints from the early 18th century through the mid-1970s

  • World Painting Index REF Fine Arts ND45.H38
    Indexes paintings from various resources 1940 to 1999

  • Fogler Library's online database

  • ARTstor
    Digital library of nearly one million images

  • The following is a selection of online resources for art images and photographs.

  • All the Web
    Searchable database of pictures

  • Archive of Early American Images (John Carter Brown Library)
    "Pictures of the colonial Americas from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca 1825"

  • Archives of American Art
    Smithsonian Institute collection that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America.

  • Art Guide (University of Heidelberg)
    The collection covers European medieval, modern, and contemporary art history, and aesthetics.

  • Art Images for College Teaching
    Ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture compiled by Allan T Hall (Minneapolis College of Art & Design)

  • Art Cyclopedia
    Index of artists represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources

  • Art Historical Images
    Created by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University, Ohio

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    More than 33,000 images organized into categories such as American, European, Native American, Contemporary, Photography, and more

  • Art Promote
    Links to various art collections

  • Census of Antique Works of Art & Architecture (Institute for Art History at the Humboldt-University Berlin )
    Searchable database of Renaissance works

  • Europeana: Europe's Digital Library
    Huge collection of digital images from European cultural collections

  • Flickr Commons
    Collection of photographs from major photography archives including the Library of Congress and Smithsonian Institute

  • Islamic Art (Museum With No Frontiers)
    A trans-national museum that presents works of art, architecture and archaeology

  • Japanese Art (Lee Institute)
    Japanese paintings, porcelain sculptures, ceramics, and bamboo art, from the 12th to the 21st centuries

  • Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
    Images from various collections in the Library of Congress

  • LIFE Photo Archive (Google)
    Millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive from the 1750s to today

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline of Art History
    Searchable by time period, geographic region, thematic category, and artist

  • MoMA
    Museum of Modern Art collections

  • National Gallery of Art
    Paintings, sculpture, and works of art on paper, from the late middle ages to the present, from Europe and the United States.

  • National Portrait Gallery
    Search more than 80,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits.

  • New York Public Library Digital Gallery
    O
    pen access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections.

  • Picturing the Century
    A hundred years of photography from the National Archive

  • Smithsonian Photography Initiative
    Smithsonian Institute's collection of photographs

  • Web Gallery of Art
    Searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism periods (1100-1850)

  • World Art Treasures (Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation)
    Search for art works by region, painter, or period

  • World Images
    Global coverage

Where to go for assistance


Created by: Joe Fernandez | Revised: 12/16/2011
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