Research Guides: Art & Magic: Images

Image Databases

Artstor on JSTOR | JSTOR Images This link opens in a new window
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New Artstor platform. Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
The foremost scholarly art encyclopedia, covering both Western and non-Western art.

Finding, Citing, & Using Images
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Art Institute of Chicago at Google Arts & Culture
A growing collection of high-resolution images, and Google Street View of the Art Institute (part of Google Arts & Culture).
Art Institute of Chicago Collection
over 68,000 works and basic information about works of art from all areas of the museum's encyclopedic collection.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
An online repository of digital collections and images across the U.S.
Getty Search Gateway
Search across several of the Getty repositories, including collections databases, library catalogs, collection inventories, and archival finding aids. Use filters to limit results to images in the Open Content Program.
Google Arts & Culture
Features content from over 1200 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.
LUNA Commons
LUNA Commons is an interface which searches across public collections which use the LUNA multimedia cataloging system.
VADS
Goya en el Prado
Digital Collection of works by Goya at the Prado Museum, includes paintings, drawings, patterns, documents, and more.
The Rembrandt Database
The Rembrandt Database is an inter-institutional research resource for information and documentation on paintings by Rembrandt – or attributed to him, either now or in the past – in museums around the world.