A Guide to Art & Art History: Images

As a pioneer in the field of Media Arts research, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA, former Database of Virtual Art) documents the rapidly evolving field of digital installation art for more than a decade now. Provides an overview of works at the intersection of art, science, and technology....

Gustavus library research guide for images.

Search records and (French) descriptions for 30,000 works of art housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The majority of records include images. English interface; searches must be in French.

Public domain pieces in the museums collections. Searchable by artist/culture, medium, era, museum department. Over 400,000 items.

A wide-ranging digital sample of the MOMA holdings. Link brings the user directly to the collections page.

Over 40,000 digital open access images from the collections.

Provided through the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands, this resource contains a large collection of art images. To utilize this resource, set up a personal account.

"Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo." For a more robust search, go to: http://collections.si.edu/search/