Library Guides: Art History: Finding images

Images of art objects and material culture

Google Cultural Institute Art Project
Three areas: Art Project, Historic Moments, and World Wonders. Extremely high resolution pictures of art and archival material from museums throughout the world.
Google Images
Google images may or may not be copyright free. You can use the images from ARTstor and Camio in the papers you write for class.

Index of Medieval Art
Supports the study of symbolism in art by providing descriptions and images of art objects in all media from the beginning of the Christian Era through the middle of the 16th century.

It can be searched by artist, title, medium, subject, location, date, etc. The display of some images is restricted by copyright, but references to reproductions in books are provided.

Images - A Research Guide at the University of Michigan
As well as art images, guide has links to web images collections for history, performing arts, sciences, social sciences, and medicine.

Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America presents a unique insight into interactions between Indigenous Peoples in North America and European colonists from their earliest contact to the mid- to late-twentieth century.
The section Visual Resources contains a wealth of visual material, including photographs, illustrations and paintings of Indigenous Peoples in North America. There are some examples in the collection of artwork and photographs from an Indigenous perspective, but the majority of visual material is from a colonial source.