Arts and Humanities Digital Image Collections

Collections (Drop-down list)

• 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.
• ARTstor- digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
• 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.
• Film and Sound Online - Birkbeck College has direct access to this service.
• Garden History Online (LUNA)- a Birkbeck collection containing 1,383 images of historical and contemporary gardens and parks around the world.
• 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.
• London Architecture Online (LUNA)- a Birkbeck collection containing over 5,100 images of London Architecture and urban spaces from the 16^th to 21^st centuries.
• LUNA Commons- over 138,000 images forming the Community Commons Collections.
• US National Library of Medicine (LUNA)- 70,000 images (portraits, photographs, cartoons, posters) of the history of medicine from the 15th to 21st century.
• 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.
• Public Domain Images - Copyright-free stock photos explicitly placed in the public domain for personal and/or commercial use.
• Taipei National Palace Museum (LUNA)- around 5,000 images of artworks, including rare books, ceramics, paintings, bronzes, jewelry, studio accessories, costumes, and more, from the National Palace Museum in Taipei spanning seven millennia of Chinese history and pre-history.
• Visual Arts Data Service (VADS)
• Web Gallery of Art - searchable database of 22,000 European artworks from 1100 to 1850.
• The Wenceslaus Hollar Digital Collection - 2,455 illustrative prints of 17th century England from the University of Toronto Library
• Wikimedia Commons - search engine for a vast array of pictures and images.

Art Museums & Galleries (Drop-down list)

• 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.