LibGuides: ART-215: Websites & Image Searching

Recommended Websites

Art History Resources
Recommendations from Professor Christopher Whitcombe
Artcyclopedia
Search for an artist or specific work of art or browse by artist, medium, subject, nationality, art movement or women artists.
Oxford Dictionary of Art
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Hover over "Timelines" and then select the desired time period and geographic area.
Smarthistory-a multimedia web book
Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries.

More Websites of Interest

Here are some useful websites for Art History.

Search for Images

There is no one place to find all images of artworks. Most art books will contain images. The Library staff can assist you with high resolution scanning of images from books to enable you to include them in your papers or projects.

Below are several recommended websites for image searches.

Art Cyclopedia
Searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to 19th centuries.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Created by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Choose "Open Access Artworks," a collection of more than 400,000hi-res images of public-domain works from the collection that can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction.
Wellcome Library
Collection of nearly 8,000 paintings.
Getty Search Gateway
Nearly 150,00 images of which approximately 120,00 are photographs.