Archive of Early American Images from Brown UniversityGraphic representations of the colonial Americas (including maps), from Hudson Bay to Tierra del Fuego, drawn entirely from primary sources printed or created between 1492 and ca. 1825.
Artsy"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, learning about, and collecting art...Artsy provides one of the largest collections of contemporary art available online."
Beyond the TajBeyond the Taj is a collection of visual and written materials assembled to support instruction and research on South Asian architectural expression in the joint perspectives of architecture and ethnography. The visual core of the collection consists of approximately 7000 photographs of works of architecture, pilgrimage locales and domestic life taken in India and Sri Lanka by Professor Robert D. “Scotty” MacDougall (1940-1987), an anthropologist and an architect.
Billie Jean Isbell Andean CollectionImages are derived from Professor Billie Jean Isbell's research in the Andes, primarily in the southern Andean department of Ayacucho and specifically in the village of Chuschi, Peru, and the surrounding region of the River Pampas Valley in the province of Cangallo.
Catalog of American PortraitsSearch more than 80,000 portrait records from the Catalog of American Portraits (CAP). NOTE: Many entries will not have an image due to copyright restrictions.
Carolingian Culture at Reichenau & St. Gall"This website presents digital versions of two of the gems surviving from the monasteries of Reichenau and St. Gall. One is the unique architectural drawing known as the Plan of St. Gall. The other is the extensive ninth-century library collections of the two monasteries, identifiable by their distinctive script. Both of these are complimented by various resources to assist in their study, providing further information about the material and intellectual contexts of Reichenau and St. Gall."
Catena - Historic Gardens and Landscape ArchiveCollection of historic and contemporary images, including plans, engravings, and photographs, intended to support research and teaching in the fields of garden history and landscape studies.
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum"This website represents Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s diverse collection, spanning thirty centuries of historic and contemporary design, including the world's coolest office, a large snail shell, snakes, a dragon and four bearded men, a cone propped up on a bench, a pair of colorful hands, a mysterious tv and a perpetual calendar."
David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionHistorical map collection focused on 18th and 19th century North and South American cartographic materials. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps.
Digitized Medieval Manuscripts"The DMMapp, or Digitized Medieval Manuscripts app, links to more 300+ digital libraries home to 20'000+ medieval manuscripts! It's easy to navigate and is constantly updated. It is based on our crowd-sourced data that you can contribute to!"
EuropeanaEuropeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.
Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana.
French Revolution Digital Archive"The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française."
George Catlin: The Printed WorksThis collection contains images from the following Catlin titles: The Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians. Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio; Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America; Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians of England, France, and Belgium; Being Notes of Eight Years Travels and Resdince in Europe with His North American Indian Collection
Gothic Past: Gothic Architecture and Sculpture in IrelandGothic Past is an open-access resource for the study of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture. It is part of a research project in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin and is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources"Researchers and students can explore thematic essays, more than 340 images, 300 glossary items and 42 primary source texts. An invaluable tool for use in the classroom, educators can integrate printable activity guides and discussion questions related to each unit into their course work."
Maps of AfricaAntiquarian maps of Africa from the collections of the late Dr. Oscar I. Norwich at the Stanford University Libraries, dating from the 15th to early 20th century.
McKenney and Hall: History of the Indian TribesImages from Hisotry of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chief. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington.
New York City Department of Records"Welcome to the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery of over 870,000 images. Selected from the world-class historical collections of the Archives, most of these unique photographs, maps, motion picture and audio recordings are being made accessible for the first time."
Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection - Archaeological Sites in TurkeyThe Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection includes 542 photographs taken in Istanbul and five archaeological sites in Western Turkey (Ephesus, Hierapolis, Laodicea on the Lycus, Pergamum, Priene) from 1935 to 1945.
Pratt Institute Fashion Plate CollectionHand-colored fashion plates from the French periodical La Gazette du Bon Ton (considered the most influential fashion magazine during its existence from 1912-1925) an dits American edition, La Gazette du Bon Ton. These plates date from 1922.
Rembrandt DatabaseThe Rembrandt Database is an English website with research material, texts, images, and other data on paintings by Rembrandt and those attributed to him.
Tate Audio Arts archive"Explore and listen to the innovative audio cassette-magazine Audio Arts, established by Bill Furlong in 1972"
The Huntington Archive"This digital collection includes more than 40,000 photographs of art and architecture from throughout Asia. The countries included in this collection are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. The photographs are copyrighted to John C. and Susan L. Huntington unless otherwise noted."
vads: the online resource for visual artsVADS is a searchable online resource with image collections covering fashion, textiles, architecture, design, posters, political cartoons, photography, sculpture, painting and more. The collections are UK centric as the resource was created for use by educators and students in the UK.
Willard D. Straight in Korea: 1904-1905Willard Straight worked in Korea as a Reuters correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War and as U.S. diplomat. He sketched Japanese and Russian soldiers and Korean people. Over 200 of his drawings, photographs, and postcards offer a rare example of western perspectives on Korea during the early 20th century.
World ImagesThe 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 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery.
World Images - AfricaAfrica starts with Ancient Africa then shows images of African people and of their diaspora around the world. The arts of Egypt and prehistoric North Africa are followed by Algera, Libya, Tunesia, Ethiopia , East , West and Central Africa.
World Images - AsiaThis section contains images from all over Asia, from China, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia, India, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Nepal and the Philippines. In addition to art works there are images of Asians themselves and of their interactions with the west.
World Images - EuropeEuropean art and life starts with the Prehistoric and Ancient worlds, including the Greeks and Romans. It moves on to the Medieval period with Early Christian and Byzantine, Migration and Carolingian periods to Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture. Next the Renaissance in Italy and Northen Europe, the Baroque and Rococo styles focusing on Italy, Holland and France, and finally the 19th century, with an emphasis on the art styles of France.
World Images - The AmericasThe Americas contains portfolios from the Pre-Columbian period in Mesoamerica and the Andean area. Native American portfolios are divided into Paleo-Indian, Southwestern, PacificCoast and Alaskia, the Great Plains, Eastern and South Eastern images and representations of Native Americans. North American images are divided by century and media, with sections on both North American and Latin American history.
World Images - The Arts: Dance, Music, Theater & Visual ArtsThe arts are emphasized here: music, dance, and theater from around the world. Various aspects of the visual arts are included, grouped in non-chronological ways, for example artists portraits, artists on art, and women artists. Still lifes and landscapes are grouped together, as are photographs and graphic arts. Museum and gallery collections are shown here.
World Images - The Middle EastEuropean interpretations of Middle Easterns are contrasted to contemporary portraits. Then come images of ancient Mesopotamia, the 'land between the rivers' where civilization is thought to have started. Then we see Iran, the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, These are followed by sections on Jews and Judaism and Islamic art and culture.
Your Paintings (UK Oil Paintings Catalogue)In partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation, this site provides information on publicly owned oil (and sometimes acrylic and tempera) paintings in the United Kingdom. Images are restricted by BBC terms of use, but the collection is very useful for research purposes.
