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Art & Art History

Guide to Bishop Library art and art history resources.

Find Images

Artstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is collection of more than 1,000,000 images relating to art history; it is a major database for images of art, and covers a wide range of time periods and cultures.
Includes a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Core collections of Artstor may be viewed here.

The Bridgeman Art Library Archive
700,000 images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists. One of the world’s leading sources of fine art, cultural and historical images, drawn from collections throughout the world, covering all periods, styles, concepts and mediums.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to 6,000 images through partnerships with major organizations such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Resource, Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and numerous international galleries and individual artists.

Embedded Images

Find embedded images in journal articles. Search the following for embedded images:

JSTOR Images This link opens in a new window
Search for images within JSTOR content; select the IMAGES tab on top of the search box….

Images on the Web

Art Cyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
Aggregates art images from different museum and internet sites. Search by Artist, Title and Museum; browse by various categories including art movement.
Metropolitian Museum of Art
A searchable database of over 400,000 artworks and related materials from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mother of All
From the University of Michigan. Extensive list of image websites.

Using ARTstor

Image source: Claude Monet, Bouquet of Sunflowers, 1881. Wikimedia, Public Domain.

ARTstor instructional videos:

Art Museums

Art Project
Take a 3D tour of some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums. View art work in great detail.