Art & Art History

Artstor is the first place you should start when looking for images.

• It contains over a million quality images (paintings, drawings, photos, architecture) collected from museums, scholars, libraries, and artists.
• It has advanced tools for viewing, organizing, and manipulating images.

To help you get started, check out:

• Artstor's user guide
• Knowledge Base Help Topics (including pages on printing/downloading images and copyright)
• 3-minute tutorial videos on YouTube
• More guides to Artstor

images.google.com

You can find countless images here, but use with caution and respect the owners' copyright (yes, things on the open Web are still under copyright). Go to "search tools" and find images that are labeled for noncommercial use; you can also specify large-sized images if you need a high resolution.

artsandculture.google.com/

This online platform, which Google launched in 2011 in partnership with 17 museums (later expanded to more than 150), provides high-resolution images of artworks from around the world. You can also go on virtual tours of museums, find hidden connections between artworks (‘X Degrees of Separation’), and match your paint colors to your favorite work of art ― check out the Experiments page. It's also downloadable as a free app for mobile devices.

The art world’s answer to Wikipedia, this online art encyclopedia aims to make the world’s art “accessible to anyone and anywhere.” In addition to accessing images representing the works of thousands of artists (both public-domain and copyright-protected), you can learn what artist was born on this day, explore artistic movements (e.g. Post-Impressionism), and discover artists by nationality and time period.

You can also look at some of the websites listed at the bottom of each topic page. Some include image collections.

• American
• Medieval
• Renaissance & Baroque
• Modern
• Scandinavian
• Women Artists