There are hundreds of places online to find art images to inspire your own work. Where noted, some images are available for remix and reuse. Check out the "use images" tab for more information on how to attribute images.
A scholarly, full-text database. To find images, use the advanced search page and check the "Image Quick View Types" that you want to find. Available off campus with student ID.
ProQuest contains full-text articles from over 4,100 magazines, journals, and newspapers.To find images, use the advanced search page and check the "Document Type" that you want to find. Available off campus with student ID.
The AMICA Library contains over 108,000 works of art from the collections of contributing museums worldwide. Cultures and time periods range from contemporary art, Native American and Inuit art, to ancient Greek, Roman, and Egyptian works, along with Japanese and Chinese works.
AICT is intended to disseminate images of art and architectural works in the public domain on a free-access, free-use basis to all levels of the educational community, as well as to the public at large.
This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century.
GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators.
Explore selected galleries virtually, through a kind of “interior” street view; offers extremely high resolution images of artworks contained within those galleries/museums;form virtual collections of artworks that can be shared and annotated.
The The National Gallery of Art of the United States of America. More than 45,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 600,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library.
Searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries; dual mode allows you to view images side-by-side to compare and contrast.
