AdHoc image and text database on the history of Christianity
http://research.yale.edu/divdl/adhoc/
The AdHoc Image and Text Database on the History of Christianity is an online compendium maintained by members of the Yale Divinity School. The collection of images is by far the larger, offering several hundred items covering the history of Christianity from the early church through to the modern period. The text collection offers a couple of dozen works, mostly relating to the Reformation. Users can browse by geographical area, historical era, object type, and topic, and there is also a sophisticated search tool. A minority of images are only available to users from Yale, and unfortunately there does not seem to be a way of excluding these from search results. The database was built primarily as a teaching tool for instructors, and the images available may be of interest to anyone wishing to provide visuals to complement their lectures and teaching.
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AHDS Visual Arts
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/
The AHDS Visual Arts was one of five Subject Centres of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS), which was funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) until 31 March 2008. The AHDS Visual Arts maintained a searchable online archive of digital resources for use by the visual arts community for learning, teaching and research; these are now being maintained by VADS (Visual Arts Data Service). Collections currently available through the VADS service include: Diversity Art Forum - formerly known as the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive (AAVAA); Imperial War Museum Art Collection; The Design Council Archive; Documentary Photography; Jacob Riis Computer Aided Learning package; London College of Fashion (LCF) College Archive; LCF's Cordwainers Shoe Collection; LCF's Woolmark Company Archive; The Halliwell Collection and The Basic Design Collections, both based at the National Arts Education Archive, Bretton Hall; the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles at Goldsmiths College; POSSE (Preserve Our Student Shows for Eternity) student degree shows at the Glasgow School of Art and Design, the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College (now known as the University College for the Creative Arts) and the University of Portsmouth illustration course; the Textile Collection at University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham; the J. L. Carr Collection; the Sir Henry Dryden Collection; the John Johnson Collection of Political Prints; the John Johnson Collection of Trades & Professions; the Tim Mara Collection; and the Elaine Thomas Collection 'Adopting a stance'. The AHDS Visual Arts also promoted good practice in the creation, management and preservation of digital resources through an advisory, training and publications programme. The Web presence for AHDS Visual Arts has been archived from March 2008.
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AICT : art images for college teaching
http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) was created by art historian and visual resources curator, Allan T. Kohl, from his own photographs. It was constructed by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) and it is now hosted by the Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota. Images included in the AICT website are organised into five chronological and cultural groupings: Ancient world; Medieval era; Renaissance and Baroque; 18th Century to 20th Century; and non-Western cultures. These sections are further sub-divided. Each thumbnail picture is linked to a larger sized image and the title of the image and its description, location and text references are supplied, where known. An additional feature includes a list of the textbooks that have been referenced. The site is intended as a teaching and learning resource and would serve undergraduate-level study.
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Album of 31 original watercolours of Australian fauna c.1790
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/ebindshow.pl?doc=pxa909/a112
The State Library of New South Wales has digitised an album of 31 original watercolours of Australian fauna painted by the English naturalist artist Sarah Stone around 1790. Sarah Stone painted many exotic birds, mammals and reptiles, which were brought back from expeditions, such as those of Captain Cook. The collection is accessed through the contents page, or can be viewed as thumbnails.
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ARC : art renewal center
http://www.artrenewal.org/
The Art Renewal Center is a non-profit educational organisation who are dedicated to promoting what it perceives as the 'standards of craftsmanship and excellence' in the visual arts. It opposes the current art establishment, rejecting modernism and much art of the past century, believing that 'only by gaining a full command of the skills of the past Masters can we create the Masters of tomorrow'. The Art Renewal Center website provides information about the Center and includes detailed answers to frequently asked questions such as 'what makes good art good and bad art bad?'. Discussions from the ARChives Information Board, posted by ARC staff and correspondents, are available, plus a selection of articles and a long essay by ARC Chairman, Fred Ross, outlining the ARC philosophy. The site also hosts an extensive online gallery of paintings and drawings by 'the greatest painters and sculptors in human history' and a list of ARC-approved ateliers, schools and workshops. Details of the scholarship scheme and the Salon competition are also provided.
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ARCHIM : Archives nationales images de documents
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/accueil.html
ARCHIM is a French archival image bank which offers digitally scanned images of valuable historical documents, pictures and photographs and thereby preserves the extensive holdings of France's National Archives' historical department. Historians of French history from the medieval period onward will find the site invaluable. Highlights include: medieval manuscripts and especially illuminated manuscripts (unfortunately there is no zoom function); casts of medieval seals; eye-catching atlases from the Ancien Régime; French Revolutionary documents; virtual albums of nineteenth century art purchased from Parisian salons, organized according to year; images from Second World War internment camps; and other World War II documents dealing with French Jews and occupation. Not all documents are online, but there are descriptions for some 3740 items. Of those, users can browse over 3700 images through a search engine. There is also an online archival catalogue. The site is entirely in French and navigation is very clear and straightforward.
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Art of Japan
http://www.theartofjapan.com/
This commercial gallery sells Japanese prints and artworks online. Although not an academic website, there are images of prints from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and the website is searchable by artist and keyword, so is a useful source of characteristic examples of Japanese printmaking. The prints are categorised into: ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world); Meiji period; shin hanga (new prints); and sosaku hanga (creative prints). There is also a section on paintings (oil, water colour, scroll, and drawings).
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Art resource : fine art stock licensing
http://www.artres.com/c/htm/Home.aspx
Art resource is one of the largest photo archives of fine art, with material ranging from prehistoric times to the present day. The website provides the facility to search by artist, keyword, or title for high quality images of works of art including paintings, sculpture, and architecture. Images are watermark protected to prevent mis-use and there is a registration facility on the site.
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Art.teleportacia
http://art.teleportacia.org/
This website, originated by Internet artist Olia Lialina and realised by Teleportacia.org claims to be the first ever Internet art gallery, in the sense of a commercial gallery exhibiting and selling Internet art works. Arranged into four 'quarters', the site is primarily a display space for Web artworks. Their artists include Lialina herself, Alexei Shulgin, Heath Bunting, Jodi.org. Vuk Cosic and Dragan Espenschied. The site is also a forum for the discussion of issues around Internet art such as originality, ownership and exhibition, and there are links to related online articles. Access to the full contents of the home page requires some sideways and downwards scrolling.
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Artchive
http://www.artchive.com/
The Artchive, created by Mark Harden, is an online gallery and art history and theory resource. The site contains a number of sections. In the artchive section are several thousand scanned images from over 200 famous artists working across many styles and periods, ranging from Egyptian art, the Baroque and the Renaissance, to Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism. Some of the images are organised into online exhibitions on specific artists or topics. In addition, the site also provides art exhibit reviews written for Glyphs online magazine, verbal and visual art criticism, extracts from major works of art theory and criticism, reviews of art-related software and links to other relevant websites.
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Artistri
http://www.artistri.co.uk/
Artistri is an online commercial art gallery which aims to showcase the best in modern art from graduates and undergraduates of Scottish art schools. Artists featured are listed alphabetically, with biographical details, and enlargable thumbnail images of their work. It is also possible to browse the website by the following categories: Abstract, Figurative, Landscapes, and Photography. A search facility is also available. Full details of how to order artworks featured are provided on the website.
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ARTstor
http://www.artstor.org/
ARTstor is an online database containing several hundred thousand images of artworks and other materials. Use of the database is restricted to subscribing institutions and materials are only made available for non-commercial educational and scholarly purposes. The ARTstor collection comes from a number of source collections, including: the Islamic Art and Architecture Collection (Sheila Blair, Jonathan Bloom, Walter Denny); the Art History Survey Collection; the Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection; the Huntington Archive of Asian Art; the Illustrated Bartsch; the Mellon International Dunhuang Archive; and the Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Collection at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, among many other collections. Together, these collections cover "artistic traditions across many times and cultures", encompassing architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, plus many other forms of visual and material culture. ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology : the Creswell Archive
http://creswell.ashmolean.org/
The website of the Creswell Archive, based at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, provides access to more than 6,500 images of medieval Islamic architecture. In 1975 the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum received the unique negative collection of Professor K. A. C. Creswell as a bequest, and these have now been printed, identified and digitised. The subject of the photographs range in place and date from al-Andalus to Iraq, and from the late seventh century to the eighteenth. The major part of the archive consists of images of the architecture of Egypt and the Levant between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Most of the photographs were taken in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Many were used to illustrate K. A. C. Creswell's two core texts on Islamic architecture: 'Early Muslim Architecture', and 'Muslim Architecture of Egypt', while others were intended for a third, unfinished, volume. This website will be of particular relevance to those interested in the history of the major monuments of the Islamic Middle East, as many of the buildings are no longer extant or have been poorly restored. The images can be browsed in one sequence or searched, with lists of places and keywords provided.
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Association of Curators of Art and Design Images (ACADI)
http://acadi.wordpress.com/
The Association of Curators of Art and Design Images (ACADI) is a group that "promotes the status of visual resources curators and aims to highlight the importance of image collections within education". The organisation aims to establish standards for managing visual resource collections within art and design education, and to promote training within this field. The website is a blog which also contains a list of members of the organisation, and information about the organisation. A suppliers page provides information on selected image suppliers; a tools page includes links to related websites; and an organisations page provides details about relevant organisations, and image collections.
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Bridgeman Art Library
http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/
This is the website of the Bridgeman Art Library, London, United Kingdom, which provides a large source of art images for publication. There is a selection of paintings to browse through, as well as information about the history of the library, where to find it, and news about projects and events that the library is currently involved in.
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Caught in oils - portraits
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/online-exhibitions/art-themes/caught_in_
The Natural History Museum (London) has provided this gallery of oil portraits of thirteen naturalists in their collection. The sitters include John James Audubon, Carl Linnaeus, Sir Hans Sloane, Alfred Russel Wallace and Mary Anning. Clicking on each image provides more information on the painting, and a brief biography of the sitter.
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Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
http://courses.csm.arts.ac.uk/museum/
This is the website of the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection. Established by W.R. Lethaby, the founding principle of the Central School of Art, the Collection now encompasses a wide range of material including: manuscripts; wood engravings and other prints including early printed sheets from the Nuremberg Chronicle, early woodcuts by Dürer and lithographs by Daumier and Gavarni; books; work and publications by members of the Arts and Crafts movement; Japanese prints; textile and wall-paper samples including the Joyce Clissold archive of hand block printed textiles; garments; staff and students' artworks; 1920s German film posters; artworks and publications by May Morris, Edward Johnston, Eric Gill and W.R. Lethaby. Areas of particular interest include the Central School's archive of papers, photographs, newspaper cuttings and prospectuses, and its original teaching books and materials. The catalogue can be searched from the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection website, with digitised images of items in the collection available through Visual Arts Data Service (VADS), which offers an advanced search and lightbox facility.
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CGFA : [a virtual art museum]
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum is an extensive database containing digital images of paintings, drawings, etchings, watercolours and many other works of art by artists from a broad period of about seven hundred years (ca. 1200-1900). It is a well-organized and well-maintained website which provides easy access by way of indexes (both alphabetical and chronological) to hundreds of works of art. There are brief biographies given for many of the artists, as well as important information about each of their works that appear in the website, such as the medium and measurements, the date of the piece, the collection the work belongs to, and background information such as the influences, and reception of the work. This website would be useful to fine arts students, history students, and even English students due to the connections which often appear between art and literature.
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COLLAGE (City of London library and art gallery electronic) portal
http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/
COLLAGE (the City of London Library and Art Gallery Electronic) is an online image database created by the City of London and iBase Image Systems. The database currently contains approximately 20,000 images from the Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery in London. The collection is devoted primarily to London topography and London life from the 15th Century to the present day. All parts of London (not just the City) are covered, as are the adjoining counties. Each image is accompanied by a description of the picture and details of, for example, the artist, size of the picture, date, publisher, medium, etc., as appropriate. The database can be searched or browsed by artists, places or people, or by categories such as abstract ideas, history, politics, or the natural world. A series of online exhibitions are also available, as well as sections bringing together some selected highlights of the collections.
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Corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture (CASSS)
http://www.dur.ac.uk/corpus/
The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) aims to publish, in printed and electronic form, a corpus of English sculpture material dating from the 7th to the 11th centuries. The project is in the process of producing regional catalogues of carved stones, with full bibliographic references and scaled photographs. The catalogues are of interest to historians, archaeologists, art historians, place-name specialists and local historians. Photographs can be provided, the project welcomes comments from the public, and it is possible to register to receive further information about publications.The website provides information on the project, Corpus publications for individual counties, the digital grammar of Anglo-Saxon ornament, links to related sites, and a link to the CASSS database. There is a list of regional volumes already published, those in preparation and forthcoming publications. The digital grammar of Anglo-Saxon ornament includes sections on: classification of forms and shapes of monuments; dating methods; epigraphy; techniques of carving; classification of ornament; and a bibliography.The CASSS database features information from Volume IV (South-East England), as a sample of what will become available in the future. The images of sculptures appear with information about the site, location, discussion, dates, description, measurements and evidence for discovery. The project has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) within the Resource Enhancement scheme.
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Courtauld Institute of Art libraries
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/institute/libraries/index.shtml
This website describes the libraries and services available to external users at the Courtauld Institute of Art. They include the Conway and Witt Libraries, which house nearly three million reproductions of art. The Institute's ongoing Photographic Survey of Private Collections forms part of this resource, and the website describes progress to date. All these services are available to general users and the website details the charges.
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Digital Clendening
http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/index.html
The Digital Clendening is the result of a digitisation project undertaken by the Clendening Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center. It offers access to a large number of high quality images derived from eight major special collections held by the library: the letters of Florence Nightingale, an internationally renowned collection of rare medical and natural history texts, over 500 portraits of medical men and women, the Rudolf Virchow manuscripts, the Samuel Crumbine papers (inventory only), Ralph Major photographs (inventory only), Japanese medical prints, and Chinese public health posters. The site is fully searchable, and all of the images visible on it are freely available for educational purposes. Full details on how to obtain reproductions are also provided. Many of the images are extensively annotated with detailed biographical, bibliographical and other information obtained from authoritative sources such as Morton's Medical Bibliography.
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Digital imaging project : art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
The Digital Imaging Project website provides thousands of JPEG images from slides taken and scanned by American Art History professor Mary Ann Sullivan (Bluffton University). The images are of sculpture and architecture from a very wide range of countries and historical periods, from early medieval Irish high crosses and tenth-century Cambodian palaces to the Millennium Park in Chicago. The choice of subjects reflects Sullivan's travels and covers sites in: Austria; Canada; Egypt; France; Greece; India; Ireland; Italy; Mexico; Pakistan; Poland; Portugal; Spain; United Kingdom; United States; and Vietnam. Brief commentaries on the photographed sites are also provided. There are detailed indexes arranged by geographical location, name of architect or artist, and chronology. The images may be downloaded for free for personal and educational use, on the understanding that credit is given where due. Further images will be added to the collection in the future.
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Digital picture
http://www.thedigitalpicture.ac.uk/
This is the website of The Digital Picture, a "JISC-funded initiative to produce an overview of issues, and potential solutions, relating to the effects of the digital image revolution on the UK arts education community". The project, initiated in 2004 and run by AHDS Visual Arts, was aimed at all users of digital images in education, from academics and art historians, to artists and students. The website publishes online documentation for the project, including 10 discussion questions, and gives project background information, events details, and the final report, which was written in 2005 and is available as PDF files.
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Elektronnyi muzei otechestvennogo plakata
http://www.plakaty.ru/
Plakaty.ru is an extensive online museum of Soviet and post-Soviet posters, which can be browsed by poster author or by poster type (e.g. agitprop, film, military). Some authors have substantial biographical entries, others brief chronologies, some are not even accompanied by dates. Not all of the thousands of posters are dated either, but clicking on poster categories offers a selection of posters sorted by year, or by author name, with or without thumbnails. A 'notes' page (only available in Russian) links to related articles (e.g. on Soviet war propaganda; on the erotic image in poster art); 'exhibitions' shows photographs from past exhibitions and advertises future events; and details are also given of the 'comradeship of poster artists'. This attractive and easy to use site offers images which are of good enough quality to use in powerpoint presentations, and should be of particular use to teachers of Soviet culture and history.
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