Online Resources
This list of online resources is intended as a useful reference for Art History faculty and students who are undertaking image research.
It is a work in progress and will be updated periodically as new resources are brought to the Curator's attention.
If you would like to contribute to this list please email [email protected]
Image Databases
Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
Google Art Project: Virtual Museum Visits
Digital Scriptorium: Database of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Universes in Universes: Contemporary Visual Arts from Africa, Asia, the Americas in the International Art Context
Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America, 1520-1820
Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web: An extensive list of Art and Architecture resources created by Karen Bouchard, Art and Architecture Librarian at Brown University
Wölff, Art at your fingertips: Wölff was created by an Art Historian (Greg Bryda) for Art Historians as a teaching tool that gives access to a crowd-sourced digital database of high-resolution images, which can be used to create and share HD presentations. (You can access the catalog by using your @Fordham.edu account)
The Manar al-Athar open-access photo-archive: High-resolution images of Roman, late antique and early Islamic art and architecture from ca. 300 BC to the present.
Copyright-Lenient Image Resources
ARTstor Images for Academic Publishing
Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (English language ICONCLASS catalog)
Copyright Resources
Digital Image Rights Computator
Library of Congress Copyright information
MIT Using Images Under Fair Use
U.S. Copyright Office-Fair Use
Visual Resources Association Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study
Pinterest: Fair Use of Images, Building Communities, Fan Pages, Copyright
Digital Art History
Exhibition Platforms
Mapping Tools
If you are interested in using these tools for teaching or for research contact [email protected]