Image collections via LUNA

London Architecture Online

A searchable collection of 4,500 images of architecture and urban spaces in London from the 11th to the 20th centuries, is accessible via the LUNA user-interface.

• London Architecture Online (on campus) - for all Birkbeck staff and students logged in to a computer at Birkbeck.
• London Architecture Online (off campus) - for all Birkbeck staff and students who wish to login via the internet, e.g. on a home computer (please use your Birkbeck username & password).

Other digital image collections accessible via LUNA

• AMICA Library - 108,000 fine art images from major museums around the world.
• Garden History: Catena Digital Archive - 1,720 images of historic gardens and landscapes.
• US National Library of Medicine - 70,000 images (portraits, photographs, cartoons, posters) of the history of medicine from the 15th to 21st century.
• LUNA Commons - 230,000 images forming the LUNA Commons Collections.

Recommended online collections and portals

General portals & search engines

• Digital librarian - images portal for 'the best of the web' as A-Z listing.
• Intute - portal for arts & humanities, health & life sciences, social sciences, science & technology.
• Wikimedia Commons - search engine for a vast array of pictures and images.

Architecture & Visual Arts

• AMICA Library (LUNA) - 108,000 fine art images from major museums around the world.
• Architecture Visual Resources Library - slide database at the University of California at Berkeley.
• Art&Architecture - Courtauld Institute of Art online image archive.
• Art History Resources - Christopher Witcombe - comprehensive portal for art history images online.
• Artchive - portal for fine art and art theory with links to major art museums.
• Artcyclopedia - portal for art history, art movements, artists, art images and links to major art museums.
• Beazley Archive of Classical Art and Architecture
• British Library Images Online
• Collage Portal - 20,000 works from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London.
• Credo Reference (on campus) - gives Birkbeck staff and students direct access to 46,400 images in the Bridgeman Art Library including 640 paintings in the National Gallery London.
• Credo Reference (off campus) - enter your Birkbeck username & password for external internet access to 46,400 images in the Bridgeman Art Library including 640 paintings in the National Gallery London.
• Film and Sound Online - Birkbeck College has direct access to this service.
• Garden History - Catena Digital Archive (LUNA) - 1,720 images of historic gardens and landscapes.
• Great Buildings - images of historic architecture around the world
• Hypermedia Research Archive - complete writings and pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
• Intute: Visual Arts - range of resources on education, theory and research in creative visual arts.
• Olga's Gallery - 10,000 artworks, helpful search indexes, mainly paintings, drawings and prints.
• Pevsner Architectural Guides - Sir Nicolaus Pevsner, former Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck - useful links to other architecture sites.
• Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
• Web Gallery of Art - searchable database of 22,000 European artworks from 1100 to 1850.
• Wikipedia: British Architecture - comprehensive list and images of historic buildings and architects.

Art Museums & Galleries

• Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum - search the collection.
• Birmingham City Art Gallery: Pre-Raphaelite Collection - 3,000 Pre-Raphaelite painting & drawings.
• Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum - search 126,900 images in the collections database.
• London: British Museum Images - view the copyright images of the BM collections.
• London: British Museum - search almost 1.9 million objects and view 510,000 images in the research database.
• London: City of London Archives & Guildhall Art Gallery - over 20,000 images of London life.
• London: National Gallery - the entire collection.
• London: National Portrait Gallery - view 120,000 portraits.
• London: Royal Academy of Arts - RA Collection online
• London: Tate Collection - 66,000 artworks mostly accessible online.
• London: V&A Museum Images - view collections, register for Lightbox functions.
• London: V&A image database - access to over 16,000 works and over 20,000 images, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles.
• London: Wallace Collection - Wallace Live online image database.
• Madrid: Prado Museum - online gallery of 2,000 works.
• New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art - 130,000 works of art in the collection database.
• Paris: Louvre - 30,000 artworks exhibited in the Louvre Museum.
• Paris: Louvre - artworks exhibited in the museums of France.
• Paris: Louvre - 3,000 works of British Art in French Public Collections (pre-1940).
• Paris: Musee d'Orsay - collections overview and discovery.

Arts & Humanities

• British Library Images Online
• Intute Arts & Humanities - portal for images for the arts and humanities.
• The Victorian Web - culture and history of Victorian Britain.
• Voice of the Shuttle - University of California Santa Barbara.
• The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection - 2,455 illustrative prints of 17th century England from the University of Toronto Library