Art & Architecture Image Collections
Interdisciplinary collections, search engines, portals:
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive Provides immediate Internet access to the world’s largest collection of current and historical pictures from The Associated Press as well as text, audio and graphic files.
- AltaVista Enter search keywords and limit your searches to types of images (i.e., color vs. black & white, photos vs.
graphics, etc.).
- Berkeley Digital Library Image Finder
- Ditto Ditto.com provides a visual mechanism to search the web using pictures instead of text. Users are directed to the originating web site on which the pictures are located.
- EBSCO Research Databases: Image Collection (choose image tab in the header).
- Google Image Search Enter search keywords in the "Image Search" box to find images using Google's search technology.
- The Library of Congress: American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library "American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the histoy and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million items from more than 100 historical collections."
- PhotoGraphicLibraries.Com
- Visual Collections "The Visual Collections site from Cartography Associates contains dozens of digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world." Their mission is to encourage the development of future visual collections and to facilitate worldwide distribution of these to both scholars and the general public.
indicates those databases restricted to Rensselaer users.
Architecture and Building Science:
See also Digital Librarian: A Librarian's choice of the best of the web in subjects such as architecture, art and images.
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Art and Architectural History - Textbook Sets and Teaching Tools:
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Fine Arts (Collections, Indexes, Encyclopedias, Visual Collections):
- The AMICO Library (Art Museum Image Consortium) The AMICO Library contains over 77,000 images of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, textiles, costumes and jewelry, and books and manuscripts from a range of cultures and time periods.
- Art on the Net
- Art Abstracts Indexes over 400 leading art publications from around the world including illustrative material. Dates covered: 1984 -
- Art Index Retrospective: 1929-1984 Art Index Retrospective provides access to 55 years of art journalism, indexing @600 periodicals published in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Danish. It also indexes art reproductions, thus helping researchers focus on a single artist or on finding individual works.
- Artchive
- Artcyclopedia
- Courtauld Institute Art and Architecture Project
- Grove Dictionary of Art Online Comprehensive electronic art reference work covering all forms of the visual arts:painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography,from prehistory to the 1990’s. It's also contains links to on-line color images and important image sites.
- Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation provides high quality digital images of works of art for scholarly study and research. Rensselaer Libraries has licensed approximately 3400 images from Saskia that are mounted on our campus-wide network and are for use by the Rensselaer community.
- The SILS Art Image Browser (Sch. of Information & Library Studies; Univ of Michigan)
- Virtual Library Museums Page
- Visual Collections "The Visual Collections site from Cartography Associates contains dozens of digital image collections from Museums, Universities and private collections throughout the world." Their mission is to encourage the development of future visual collections and to facilitate worldwide distribution of these to both scholars and the general public.
- World Art Treasures
See also Digital Librarian: A Librarian's choice of the best of the web in subjects such as architecture, art and images.
indicates those databases restricted to Rensselaer users.
Photography:
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive Provides immediate Internet access to the world’s largest collection of current and historical pictures from The Associated Press as well as text, audio and graphic files.
- The Charles W. Cushman Photographs: A collection of everyday life in the middle of the twentieth century
- The Library of Congress: American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library "American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the histoy and culture of the United States. The site offers more than 7 million items from more than 100 historical collections."
- The Library of Virginia: Photographic Collections "The Picture Collection of the Library of Virginia contains photographic
collections, slides, transparencies, artwork on paper (lithographs, engravings,
etc.), tobacco labels, sheet music, postcards, posters, currency, programs and
pamphlets. A fraction of our collection is available online."
- PhotoGraphicLibraries.Com
- The Smithsonian Institution Photographs
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Virtual Art (Digital Materials, Performance, Time Based Art, Video, Virtual Installations):
See also Digital Librarian: A Librarian's choice of the best of the web in subjects such as architecture, art and images.
indicates those databases restricted to Rensselaer users.
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