Thursday, August 23, 2012

Beyond Google Image Search

Welcome to the 2012-23 academic year! Here are some of my favorite resources for art images. If you have a useful site that I have missed or need help with a special project, let me know at 
ann.silver@centre.edu
 
ARTstor, around a million and a half images, with global coverage at http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html#1
MDID, our local image database
Oxford Art On-Line, a great reference source
Flickr Creative Commons
Creative Commons 
Smarthistory, a really interesting resource 
AITC (Academic Images for College Teaching) 
Perseus, images of the Classical world
New York Public Library Digital Gallery 
Europeana, 1500 European institutions share a site
Google Art Project, super sized images 
Metropolitan Museum 
Scholars Resource, funding is available to purchase images 
at http://www.scholarsresource.com/