Rembrandt: Images & Web Resources

ArtCyclopedia allows users to search a number of museums at once and go directly to their holdings on the selected artist. A good basic starting point for beginning research on fine art.

Digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Site created and maintained by Mary Ann Sullivan, faculty at Bluffton University.

This digital image database replaces MDID. Available to Centre College users via login.

The Visual Information Access (VIA) system is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard, focusing on artistic and cultural materials. VIA includes catalog records for objects or images owned, held or licensed by Harvard. Access to the catalog is open to the general public: all catalog records and thumbnail images are available to everyone.

The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and its images may be freely used for non-profit educational purposes. The images can be located using many search techniques, and for convenience they are organized into over 800 portfolios which are then organized into subject groupings.

With almost 2 million items from around the globe in its collection, the British Museum is one of the foremost museums in the world. Virtually the entire collection is accessible online through the museum's database, and the museum offers professional-grade images of many objects in their collection free of charge for academic and non-commercial use.

The National Gallery houses the British national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries, including works by Titian, Vermeer, Holbein, and Michelangelo. The website contains a gallery of the entire gallery collection as well as an ongoing podcast series pertaining to significant works.

The National Gallery of Art, one of the world's preeminent museums, was created in 1937 . The Gallery's collection of some 116,000 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present.

Directory of the Smithsonian collections including the National Zoo, National Portrait Gallery, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and Air & Space Museum.

One of the largest and finest collections of Ancient, Classical,Western and Islamic art, the Louvre houses over 35,000 pieces within a 60,000 meter exhibition area. The Louvre website provides various online databases including the Inventory of the Department of Prints and Drawings, La Fayette Database of American Art, and Joconde. Other resources include multimedia collection tours and analysis of major pieces in the collection in addition to excellent images for reference.

AATA is a comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts and bibliographic records of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Subjects covered include: restoration; preservation; technical documentation of works of art; material culture; archaeological and architectural sites and materials; etc.

An online Art History Resource maintained by Professor Christopher L. C. E., Dept of Art History, Sweet Briar College, VA.

42,000 American artists from the early sixteenth century to the present.

A biographical and methodological database intended as a beginning point to learning the background of major art historians of western art history. A free, copyrighted scholarly database for the use of researchers, students and the public.

Europeana is a multi-lingual portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. Just a few of the cultural treasures you will find on the Europeana portal are: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, the works of Charles Darwin and the music of Mozart.

Terminology and other information about the objects, artists, concepts, and places important to various disciplines that specialize in art, architecture and material culture.

The databases contain indexed transcriptions of material from auction catalogs and archival inventories of western European works of art, and contain nearly 1,000,000 records that cover the period from the late 16th century to the early 20th century.

A structured vocabulary currently containing around 293,000 names and other information about artists. Names in ULAN may include given names, pseudonyms, variant spellings, names in multiple languages, and names that have changed over time (e.g., married names). Among these names, one is flagged as the preferred name.

Welcome to the website of the Historians of Islamic Art Association or HIAA, dedicated to promoting the study and teaching of the art, architecture and archaeology of Islamic cultures world-wide. Through this website, as well as our H-ISLAMART listserv, HIAA also aims to foster and facilitate communication and cooperation among colleagues engaged in scholarly and other professional activities related to Islamic art, and to provide information about current programs and resources vital to the field’s continued development.

Internet sites pertaining to Islamic art.

The collections at Loggia explore select areas of study in art and art history, architecture and design, the decorative arts, industrial design, and classical studies such as Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology.

Includes schools of fine arts, online exhibitions, art museums, databases, library catalogs, research resources in art history and more.

Sacred Destinations is an ecumenical guide to more than 1,250 sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, religious architecture and sacred art in over 60 countries around the world. In addition to richly illustrated articles, there are photo galleries containing over 24,000 high-quality images plus detailed maps.

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 23.200 reproductions. Picture commentaries, artist biographies are available.