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Subject Guide for Image Databases

Art History Surveys of Western Art
Time Periods of Western Art
Cultural Collections
Art Disciplines
Artists
Comprehensive Image Collections

IMAGE DATABASES

Art History Surveys of Western Art
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Art Images for College Teaching, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Art History Resources on the Web, Sweet Briar College, VA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Time Line of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


Time Periods of Western Art
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Contemporary Art
303 Gallery, New York
Artificial Gallery
Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
ArtSEENSoHo
Big RED and Shiny
GASP - Gallery Artists Studio Projects, Boston
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Guggenheim Museum, New York
judi rotenberg gallery, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
P.S.1, MoMA, Long Island City, NY
RHYS Gallery, Boston

Donna Rosenthal, All's Fair in Love and War,  2006.
Vintage romance novels, text, shellac, and steel.
9" x 9" x 9"
Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston

SoWa Art Walk
Tate Online
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
World Wide Arts Resources

Modern Art
Guggenheim Museum, New York
MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate Online

19th Century
Art History Resources on the Web, Sweet Briar College, VA


Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-88. Bronze.
Art Images for College Teaching, Minneapolis College of Art & Design

Digital Archive of Art: Jeffrey Howe, Boston College
Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


18th Century
Art History Resources on the Web, Sweet Briar College, VA
Art Images for College Teaching, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Eighteenth-Century Resources, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Baroque
Detroit Institute of Arts
Louvre, Paris
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Web Gallery of Art, Emil Kren and Daniel Marx

Renaissance
Annenberg Media/CPB Exhibits
Art Images for College Teaching, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Corsair, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Giorgio Vasari Web Site
Virtual Uffizi
Web Gallery of Art, Emil Kren and Daniel Marx

Medieval
Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Corsair, The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc De Berry, University of Chicago
Medieval Studies Program Library Resources, University of Illinois
Online Medieval and Classical Library, UC Berkeley

Byzantine
Byzantium: Byzantine Studies on the Internet, Fordham University
The Glory of Byzantium, Metropolitan Museum of Art's Online Exhibition

Early Christian
Art History Resources on the Web, Sweet Briar College, VA
Art Images for College Teaching, Minneapolis College of Art & Design

Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman
Carter Archives of the Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Egypt Archive: Jon Bodsworth
Exploring Ancient World Cultures, University of Evansville, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, Medford, MA
State Hermitage Museum: George Ortiz Collection, St. Petersburg

Prehistoric
Art History Resources on the Web, Sweet Briar College, VA
The Cave of Lascaux, French Ministry of Culture and Communication
Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cultural Collections
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African Art
Handspring Puppet Company, Kalk Bay, South Africa
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum for African Art, New York
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

American Art
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, UW-Madison
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
SIRIS: Smithsonian American Art Museum Research Databases
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Asian Art
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
FSIG: Freer + Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Islamic Art
Islamic Art and Architecture Image Databases, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Latin and South American Art

Maya Reliquary figure with Teotihuacanoid symbol over mouth,
stone, cinnabar: h. 16.1cm, Mexico.
Photograph © Justin Kerr, 7709a, www.mayavase.com
FAMSI

LatinArt.com, Online Journal of Art and Culture
Mesoamerican Photo Archives: David R. Hixon, Tulane University
Mesoweb
Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries, Texas Council for Humanities
Modern Art Museum, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo Nacional de Arte, Bolivia
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

Native American Art
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

Art Disciplines
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Architecture
American Memory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
ArchINFORM
Archiplanet
ArchitectureWeek
Casselman Archive of Islamic + Mudejar Architecture, Spain, UW-Madison
Digital Archive of Architecture: Jeffrey Howe, Boston College
Digital Imaging Project: Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton University, Ohio
Great Buildings Online
RIBApix
SPIRO, UC Berkeley

Artists' Books

Jann Tenenbaum, Edible Book, 2007. Toast, scallions. Tasty, Books2eat 2007 at SMFA

UW-Madison's Artists' Book Collection

Installation

Ralph Helmick, Fourteenth Way (detail), 2007.
Suspended letters form snowy mountains and
create text of a poem by Wallace Stevens,
from Trainscape: Installation Art for Model Railroads.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA

Performance
Arts Archives
Fado Performance Inc., Toronto
Fluxus Portal
Live Art Archives, Nottingham Trent University
Mobius, Boston


Photography
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Helios: Smithsonian Online Photography Collections
International Center for Photography, New York 
PhotoMuse: George Eastman House and ICP

Web Art
Artnetweb
E.space, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Year Zero One

Artists
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Art:21
Artchive: Mark Harden
Artcyclopedia
Art History Resources on the Web, Sweet Briar College, VA
Saatchi Gallery, London
Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
World Wide Arts Resources 

Comprehensive Image Collections
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Artchive: Mark Harden
Galaxy of Images, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington, D.C.
The ImageBase, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
SIRIS, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
WorldImages, California State University IMAGE Project
World Wide Web Virtual Library, CHArt

Last Update 5/05/08

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