American Museum of Photography

Anthropology Collection Database -- The database includes digital images of collection objects, most of which are ethnographic. Currently there are over 8,000 images available out of 17,000, documenting the areas of strength in the collection. Digital photographing of the remainder of the collection is an ongoing project.

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America--the Gottscho-Schleisner collection of over 29,000 images.

Art Crimes--one of the largest collections ever assembled of graffiti.

Artcyclopedia--works of 7,500 famous artists in art museums and image archives worldwide. Searchable.

Art Exhibits

Art Guide--"a comprehensive guide to the art collections of Great Britain and Ireland.

Art Image Base--contains over 60,000 art works by over 15,000 artists, retrievable by artist, title, nationality, time period, image content.

Art Magick--an online art gallery with over a thousand paintings and some poetry from art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, biographies too.

British Library Treasures -- digitized illuminated manuscripts including a 700 year old Qu'ran and Leonardo's notebooks, plus more

Christus Rex--a site for Christian art and documents.

Clip Art Connection: a good place to get your graphics.

Clip Art Searcher--specially configured Hotbot and other search engines allow you to search for images, icons, backgrounds.

Daguerrian Society--an extensive collection of Daguerrotypes, and links to other online collections.

Digital archive of American Architecture

Editorial Cartoonists--for a totally unfair but funny take on politics, visit some award winning political cartoonists.

Figurae -- "a collection of images of art objects, architecture, archaeological remains, site-plans, & maps. We seek images that can represent a broad range of communities, artists, genres, regions, and periods. Our purpose is to collect & make easily accessible well described images that are normally difficult for students & teachers to find." 288 images and counting, searchable.

the Great Buildings Collection--for a wide selection of buildings throughout the world

Helios: National Museum of American Art Photography Online--this is the photography site for the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Art

Himalayan Art -- provides digital images of Himalayan art from museums, private collections, and universities.  Includes an index and a search option.  Also provides links to other sites and an audio glossary for correct pronunciation of Tibetan or Sanskrit words.

Illuminated Manuscripts: 11th to 19th century -- from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, England. An excellent site, includes commonplace books and medical texts as well as sacred books and more.

ImageServe--over 10,000 images of European and Australian art and architecture. 

International Museum of Cartoon Art--visit its Artists section and see bios and a few cartoons from a sizable roster of artists 

Latin American Art Directory--biographies, interviews, exhibitions, articles and images

Memory of the World -- sponsored by UNESCO, this website offers access to over 160 digitized collections from around the world, including many art collections.

Museums: World Wide Arts Resources

National Gallery of Art Virtual Tour

Panoramas: The North American Landscape in Art -- The Canadian Heritage Information Network, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, and their respective governments are proud to present this trilateral virtual exhibition celebrating the landscape of North America.

Posters American Style -- poster art from America's history, including political posters, commercial posters, and posters announcing special events.

QBIC Colour and Layout Searches -- an amazing site from the Hermitage Museum. Find museum paintings by just the colors you remember it having or what fruits were where. 

Renaissance and Baroque Architecture--an extensive collection of slides.

Society of Architectural Historians Image Exchange Project--focusing on American architecture 1850-1899.

SPIRO: Architecture Slide Library Catalog

Subject Directory of Image Sites--from Paula Berinstein, author of Finding Images Online

Symbols.Com--find the symbol to represent a word using the word index, or the meaning of a graphic symbol with the graphic index

Symbols in Christian Art and Architecture--a searchable index of symbols, with meanings and religious figures associated with them. Frames, with clean simple graphics.

Virtual Tour of Museums and Exhibits: links to many museums that have online guided tours.

Web Gallery of Art -- a searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1800), with about 11,000 reproductions.