Finding images online
There are many image databases on the internet. Often the images in these databases will not be retrieved by search engines.
Image databases come in all shapes and sizes: ranging from large databases of professional institutions like archives or museums to small image collections on individuals' websites. The quality of the images differs enormously.
Image databases can be found using search engines or portalsites.
Europeana
- Europeana This link opens in a new windowMulti-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, archives and multi-media collections.
ARTstor (public collections)
- ARTstor (public collections) This link opens in a new windowArtstor’s public collections offer approximately 1 million freely accessible images, videos, documents, and audio files from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of open access images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Selected image databases
- Wikimedia This link opens in a new window
- RKD Images This link opens in a new window
- Web Gallery of Art This link opens in a new window
- Art and Architecture - Courtauld This link opens in a new window
- Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur This link opens in a new window
- UBU Web This link opens in a new window
- Réunion des Musées Nationaux - agence photographique This link opens in a new window
- Flickr - the commons This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: Faculty of Arts