General | Image databases | Commercial image collections | Specialised collections

General image sites

• Digitizing images and text from Berkeley. Articles, companies, example projects etc.

Finding and using images

• Finding images on the Web by Ruth Thomas, Boston University Libraries.  Basic
• Internet for image searching    New online tutorial from Intute: how to find copyright-cleared images for your work
  
• Still images: Finding and using digital media from the JISC.  Aimed at teaching and teaching support staff
  
• Finding images   from MIT. Starting points, selected image collections

Image search engines  (in order of quality!)

• Google image search
• Yahoo! images search
• Picsearch (for pictures)

Collections of image databases

• Visual collections  from Cartography Associates, David Rumsey.  35 collections of images - fine art, architecture, photography etc.

Individual image databases - alphabetically

• Artchive
• Artcyclopedia
• ArtServe  Art and architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin. 185,000 images of art and architecture [May 2002], plus texts etc.
• The Athenaeum    Now c. 40,000 images online
• Bildarchiv Foto Marburg  Image databases of German art, architecture and manuscripts online
  • Bildarchiv der Kunst und Architektur  Photo archive of 1.7 million images (!) of European art and architecture
    
• British Library Images Online   New!  (Free) registration required to see previews
• British Museum Images   New!
  
• Carol Gerten's Fine Art  Archive of paintings and drawings, mostly by Western artists
• Digital Imaging Project   New!  Mary Sullivan's site - sculpture and architecture images
• MAKE: the organisation for women in the arts
• NYPL Digital Gallery   New!  Images from the New York Public Library
• VADS: the Visual Arts Data Service Preserves and provides access to quality digital resources for the visual arts
• Web Gallery of Art   now over 22,000 images online
  
• World Art Treasures From the J-E Berger Foundation. 100,000 slides of art works, from all civilizations

Commercial collections

• Bridgeman Art Library, London copyrighted art images for publication - not for (free) reproduction
• Corbis  New!
• Getty Images Creative  New!
• Hartill Art Associates mostly architecture, sculpture and decorative art
• Mary Evans Picture Library Database of historical images
• Saskia Ltd. database of 20,000 slides for purchase, with 2,500 free thumbnails
• Roland Collection of films and videos on art

Specialised collections

• EAA: Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 New from Duke University: database of 9000 images relating to the early history of advertising in America
• Ad*Access Also from Duke: searchable/browsable database of over 7000 advertisements from US and Canadian magazines published between 1911 and 1955
• Art and Archeology of Classical Greece: over 15,000 images from the Perseus Project at Tufts University
• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall   Graffiti art site
• British Printed Images to 1700   New!  A digital library of prints and book illustrations
  
• British Cartoon Archive  New address!  c. 130,000 cartoons from the University of Kent collection
• Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi Huge collections of Christian painting and architecture:
  • Jerusalem: the Via Crucis 223 images
  • Jerusalem: Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre 155 images
  • Churches of Jerusalem
  • Giotto 205 images
  • Vatican City 255 images
  • Vatican Museums 596 images
  • Sistine Chapel 325 imges
  • Raphael: Stanze and Loggia 226 images
  • Image gallery fine arts mostly Italian Renaissance art
  • Splendors of Christendom: a worldwide tour of cathedrals, churches and monasteries
  • The Très riches heures of Jean, duc de Berry images of the complete manuscript
• Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material culture: image and text collections   New from the University of Wisconsin
• Images de la France d'Autrefois  New!  80,000 French postcards online, searchable by département.   Full access by 24hour subscription.  Click on Mode démonstration for free access - but the images have a "pay for full picture" banner.
• Shakespeare Illustrated   Nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions of Shakespeare's plays
• The Siege and Commune of Paris, 1871: 1200 digitised images from Northwestern University
• 1200 years of Italian sculpture images arranged by period and by artist. Links to locations allow other works in the same collection to be displayed