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Last revised: August 2009

Visual Image Resources on the Web

Scope: This guide provides a listing of selected Web resources useful for locating visual images. For information on locating images in print sources, see Visual Image Resources in Print. For further information email Louise Greene or call 301-405-9064.


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Museums, Libraries and Archives

  • Art Resource
    (http://www.artres.com/c/htm/Home.aspx)
    Images of works in all media from museum collections worldwide; also includes monuments and commercial archives.

  • ARTstor (Via Research Port)
    Search hundreds of thousands of images from many periods and cultures. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and more.

  • Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur
    (http://www.bildindex.de/)
    Picture archives of art and architecture in Germany.

  • Bridgeman Art Library (Via Research Port)
    Images from public and private collections worldwide. Includes all subjects, styles, periods, and media.

  • The British Museum
    (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass)
    Images from two million years of world culture.

  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
    (http://www.famsf.org/fam/about/imagebase/)
    Images from the collections of the de Young Museum and the Legion of Honor.

  • George Eastman House Still Photography Finding Aids
    (http://www.geh.org/photographers.html)
    An index to the collections.

  • Joconde
    (http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/fr/pres.htm)
    Images from the museum collections of France including archaeology, fine arts, decorative arts and more.

  • Library of Congress
    Access to still and moving images, prints, photographs, maps, and other documents of the American experience.
    American Memory
    (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)
    Prints and Photographs
    (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html)

  • The Louvre
    (http://www.louvre.fr/)
    Selections from all areas of the museum's vast collections.

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    (http://www.metmuseum.org/)
    Images of all styles and periods of art worldwide.

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
    (http://www.nga.gov)
    Selections from the museum's collection of European and American paintings, sculpture, photographs and decorative arts.

  • NARA (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
    (http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/index.html)
    Catalog of NARA's holdings including images from primary sources.

  • New York Public Library Digital Collections
    (http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital)
    Images from the library's primary source collections including manuscripts, maps, posters, prints, photographs and ephemera.

  • SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System
    (http://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=ariallimg#focus)
    Find images in the Archives of American Art, Inventory of American Painting and Sculpture, Photographic Collections and more.

  • Tate Online
    (http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm)
    Images from the national collection of British art from 1500, and international modern and contemporary art.

  • Vatican Museums
    (http://mv.vatican.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html)
    Images from the diverse collections of the museum complex in Rome.

  • Virtual Library: Museums
    (http://icom.museum/vlmp/world.html/)
    An extensive directory providing access to museum Web sites worldwide organized geographically.

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Image Collections and Directories

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Bibliographic Databases (Access via Research Port)

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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION

The following sources provide information on the fair use of visual images and on issues related to obtaining permission to publish.

  • Artists Rights Society
    (http://www.arsny.com)
    A copyright, licensing and monitoring organization representing the intellectual property rights interests of over 30,000 visual artists from around the world including painters, sculptors, photographers, architects and others.
  • United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress
    (http://www.loc.gov/copyright)
    Comprehensive information about copyright issues.

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