Library: Art Resources: Museums, Galleries, and Image Collections

Online Exhibits and Image Collections

Closer to Van Eyck
A project of the Getty Foundation, this website is devoted to Van Eyck's Ghent Alterpiece.
Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books
A rich, diverse collection of artist-made books from the early 20th century to today.
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Digital collection of more than 480,000 works from the Louvre Museum and the Eugène-Delacroix National Museum.
British Museum
The online collection has many high definition images that can be enlarged and examined in detail.
The Art Institute of Chicago
Over 50,000 images of works in the Art Institute's collection are believed to be in the public domain, and can be accessed and used under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.
The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Getty features pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, decorative arts, and photographs from the inception of photography through present day from all over the world
Tate Modern
An extensive and high-quality collection of images from a network of four art galleries in London, including British art from 1500 to the present day, and international modern and contemporary art.
RKD Images (Netherlands Institute for Art History)
195,000 images of Dutch and Flemish works of art from the 14th through the late 19th centuries.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs online
A collection of roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, sketches, scrapbooks, and other documentation that supports the study of the history of the visual arts in America.
NYPL Digital Collections
Access to over a million images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

Art Resources: Museums, Galleries, and Image Collections

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