Art & Architecture
There are more than 40,000 images here, and a network of over half a million links. There are amazing and wonderful things to find, and any number of ways of finding them.
Art Images for College Teaching
Online Images/Media: 3,056; Records: 3,064; Art Images for College Teaching
ArtServe at the Australian National University
(The Australian National University) Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin, Japan, India & Cambodia
Calisphere: The deeper you look, the more you discover.
Calisphere is your gateway to digital collections from California’s great libraries, archives, and museums. Discover over 2,025,000 images, texts, and recordings. Watch an introductory video to learn more.
Europeana Collections
Explore stories and artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
John Leech Archive
Cartoon Archives 1841-1864. From the first Punch magazine in 1841 until his death in the 1864 John Leech’s cartoons were a major feature. This is an online archive already containing over 600 chosen cartoons of his from Punch over the period. In general copyright only lasts until 70 years after the death of an artist so we be…
Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history.
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Explore the collection of the Museum of Art and Design Hamburg (MKG) at the MKG Collection Online
Musée d’Orsay: Full collection index
The catalogue of works includes all the collections for which the Musée d’Orsay has responsibility, except for the drawings from the Musée d’Orsay collection, kept in the Graphic Arts Dept of the Louvre museum.
Museo
A visual search engine for discovering free images from some of the best museums in the world.
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
800,000 artworks, taonga, photographs, collection objects, and botanical and zoological specimens from Te Papa’s collections.
Olga’s Gallery - Online Art Museum.
One of the largest collections of paintings online. Featuring hundreds of artists and thousands of works. Large, high-quality images. Biographies, historical commentary, religious and mythological notes.
Rijksmuseum, the museum of the Netherlands
We tell the story of 800 years of Dutch history with the great masters Rembrandt, Vermeer and Van Gogh.
SMK | Søg i Samlingen
The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches and handles Danish and foreign art dating from the 14th century to the present day.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Discover art by Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol & more in the Art Institute’s collection spanning 5,000 years of creativity.
The British Museum Collection
Explore the British Museum collection and journey through two million years of human history. There are currently 2,335,338 records available, which represent more than 4,000,000 objects.
The Cleveland Museum of Art Collection Online
Enjoy the museum experience from home with these online resources.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Pharos Explore selected highlights from the Fitzwilliam’s collection by theme or time Requires Adobe Flash Player Hidden Histories: names and faces Personal histories associated with a selection of objects in the Fitzwilliam Illuminated: Manuscripts in the Making A window onto the world of medieval…
The Frick Digital Collections
A collection of freely available digitized items from the Frick Collections. This site enables visitors to browse and download jpegs of large format digital files created through projects supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Henry Luce Foundation and METRO.
The Library of Congress
The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the…
The Met Collection
The Met collection represents more than 5,000 years of art from across the globe—from the first cities of the ancient world to works being created today.
The Morgan Library & Museum
Just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station, the Morgan is a major exhibition venue for fine art, literature, and music, one of New York’s great historic sites, and a wonderful place to dine, shop, and attend a concert or film.
NYPL Digital Collections
Explore hundreds of thousands of digital items from The New York Public Library.
The National Gallery, London
The story of European art, masterpiece by masterpiece. The nation’s gallery in the nation’s homes
The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is located in Baltimore, Maryland. The museum’s collection encompasses 36,000 objects from around the world. Admission is free.
Web Gallery of Art, searchable fine arts image database
Searchable fine arts and architecture image database (700-1900) with artist biographies, commentaries, guided tours, period music, free postcard service
WikiArt.org - Visual Art Encyclopedia
Wikiart.org is the best place to find art online. Discover paintings and photographs in a searchable image database with artist biographies and artwork descriptions.
Yale University Art Gallery
SPECIAL ADVISORY: To safeguard against the spread of COVID-19, the Yale University Art Gallery will remain closed until further notice. Learn More
Yale Center for British Art
YCBA provides free and open access to images of works in its collection that are believed to be in the public domain, as well as to certain other materials, including the descriptive information which accompanies those images.
