LibGuides: Art: Images

Finding Images in Databases

ARTstor This link opens in a new window As of 8/1/2024, the ARTstor website is retired. ARTstor content is now available on JSTOR's "images" tab. Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data. JSTOR images covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design, as well as many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, and download images.
ARAS This link opens in a new window The Archive consists of photographs and reproductions of works of art, ritual images, and artifacts that depict archetypal images as defined by Carl G. Jung. Images date from the Paleolithic period to the present, and Prehistoric, Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Indian traditions are most substantially represented.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary archive of scholarly journal literature. 1878 + Last several years not included.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Credo contains full text encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Beazley Archive This link opens in a new window The Beazley Archive is a research unit of the University of Oxford's Faculty of Literae Humaniores. This Web site provides access to photographs, notes, drawings and books relating to ancient Greek and Roman art.

Observe copyright restrictions and properly cite all images downloaded from the web.

African Digital Art
AICT Free access and free use of images of art and architectural works in the public domain. Images are referenced to important art history texts.
Digital Scriptorium A database of medieval and renaissance manuscript images intended for educational and teaching purposes.
flickr Commons Images with no known copyright restrictions from participating institutions.
Google Image Advanced Search Use Advanced Image Search to limit search by file size, type, color and more. "USAGE RIGHTS" allows you to restrict your search to images that are free to use.
Image Exchange: Online Resource for Teaching Architecture images intended for educational use. Guidelines describe use and restrictions.
Library of Congress Digital Collections Open access to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.
NYPL Digital Collections Public access to the digitized collections of the New York Public Library, including postcards, maps, photographs, manuscripts and more.
Princeton University Digital Library Includes manuscripts, maps, posters, prints and so on from Princeton University collections.
Web Gallery of Art Emphasis on European art 11th - 19th centuries.
Wikimedia Commons Images can be copied, used or modified. Follow the terms specified by the author. License terms for each image is found on the description page.

Image citations typically include the following:

Images from the web should include the URL and date of access.

Images from books should include the book citation.

This website from the University of Cincinnati provides examples: Citing Images

Information about image citing from ARTstor.