The Met has almost 350,000 items from their collection digitized.
Includes images of decorative arts, design, crafts, fashion, posters,architectural drawings, as well as paintings and prints.
Incorporating the 1921 volume, its 1956 supplement and new information, this database allows access to collectors' marks using multiple criteria such as text, image, technique or color of the mark or the name and location of the collection.
999 photographs divided into four sections, the architecture, reliefs, and finds of the Palaces at Persepolis; the prehistoric mound of Tall-i-Bakun; Istakhr, the Islamic city mound; and the aerial survey flights conducted between 1935 and 1937. In additi
Three books: 1)The Dream City:A portfolio of photographic views of the World's Columbian Exposition, with an introduction by Halsey C. Ives.; 2) The Book of the Fair, by Hubert Howe Bancroft; 3) The Vanishing Fair, by H. H. Van Meter. Also images from con
A collection of photographs of medieval stained glass.
A database of photographs taken by Svetlana Tomekovic of Byzantine architecture and frescoes.
This site features 1,247 engravings, many in color, from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries.
A duplicate of the Inventory-Catalogue of the Drawings in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, this archive of 12,000 Italian drawings from the 14th - 19th centuries includes almost 5000 digitized images. The database can be searched by artist, title, medi
provides key word access to approximately 19,000 records of prints published in Paris between 1811 and 1817 as recorded in La Bibliographie de la France, the journal that documented publishing activity in France. Including both obscure and well-known prin
Focuses on Early America and includes electronic texts and journals, image databases, and information on organizations, museums and research facilities.
This site, by Boston University librarian Ruth S. Thomas, covers search engines and image archives, downloading and inserting images into documents, copyright issues and more.
The Web Gallery "is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850)."
Home page of the association of professionals interested in visual resources. It provides HTML tutorials, information on copyright issues and links to related sites.
The V & A's Collections Online website provides high resolution files of objects from the museum including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles from around the world. Scholars are not char
This collection, comprising 91 images, documents the Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vézelay, one of the most important surviving monuments of architecture and sculpture of the Romanesque period
"The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of archival visual records that are part of the Smithsonian Institution Research Information System's main catalog. It includes over 90,000 electronic images from several archival repositories at the Smithsonia
"The NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 700,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and ph
From the Pierpont Morgan Library, spanning ten centuries of Western illumination, this collection contains manuscripts from all the major schools.