Locating Images & Art in the Library & Beyond
(your one stop site for finding images)

A Review of Searching for Images Article
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html
Online Image Catalogs, Databases, and Research sites:
http://www.chatham.edu/users/staff/dnolting/images.html


Art Encyclopedias, Dictionaries (Online):

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online - available only to UA students staff and faculty members.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/links/britannica.shtml

Highly Recommended!
Grove's Dictionary of Art Online - available only to UA students staff and faculty members.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/indexes/links/groveart.shtml
The Grove Dictionary Online is a place to begin your research on general art topics. The scope of coverage is unrivalled by any other art historical reference work, either in print or online. Compiled over a period of 15 years, it represents the work of more than 6,800 scholars from around the world, each writing on his or her own specialist field of study.

SABIO Image Reference(Some resources available only to UA students staff and faculty members.)
http://www.library.arizona.edu/libresources/images.html
Try AP Photo Archive, AMICO, Corbis, Altavista Photo and Media Finder and more!

Boston Universities Libraries: Finding Images
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html


Indexes (Highly Recommended--because not all images are available online):

Art in Life.
Call #: N7525 .C55
Location: Main Library, 4th Floor

Illustration index.
Call #: N7525 .I55
Location: Main Ref

Index to art reproductions in books.
Call #: B7525 .H48 1974
Location: Main Ref

Index to Italian architecture : a guide to key monuments and
reproduction sources
Call #: NA111 .T4 1992
Location: Main Ref

Index to reproductions of American paintings; a guide to pictures
occurring in more than eight hundred books,
Call #: ND205 .M57
Location: Main Ref

Index to reproductions of American paintings; a guide to pictures
occurring in more than eight hundred books. Supplement.
Call #: ND205 .M57 Suppl. v.1
Location: Main Ref

Index to reproductions of European paintings; a guide to pictures in
more than three hundred books,
Call #: ND45 .M6
Location: Main Ref

Index to two-dimensional art works
Call #: N7525 .K67
Location: Main Ref

Print index : a guide to reproductions
Call #: NE90 .P17 1983
Location: Main Ref

Sculpture index.
Call #: NB36 .C55
Location: Main Ref

World architecture index : a guide to illustrations
Call #: NA202 .T4 1991
Locations: Main Ref & Archit Ref

World painting index & Supplements
Call #: ND45 .H38
Location: Main Ref

Index to reproductions of american paintings appearing
in more than 400 books, mostly published since 1960
Call #: ND205 .S575
Location: Main Ref

Index to reproductions of European paintings; a guide to
pictures in more than three hundred books
Call #: ND45 .M6
Location: Main Ref

An index to reproductions of paintings by twentieth-century Chinese artists
Call #: ND1045 .L35 1998
Location: Main Ref

International photography : George Eastman House index to photographers,
collections, and exhibitions
Call #: TR12 .E85 1998
Location: CCP Ref


Image Search Sites:

Library of Congress -- Prints and Photographs Reading Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/

Finding Images on the Web
Boston University Library's site for locating images.
http://www.bu.edu/library/training/webimages.htm

Aboriginal Art
Eskimo, Inuit, Indian sculpture, prints, wood carvings and more.
http://www.aboriginart.com/

Africa-related images
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/GIF_Images.html

Amazing Picture Machine
Contents include images from Aircraft, to American Cities to Famous Actors and Actresses of the 20th Century to Paintings and Famous Works of Art to World War II. Supported through the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

Animal Pictures Archive
http://www.best5.net/animal/

Art Crimes: Writing on the Wall
http://www.graffiti.org/

Artcyclopedia
Search 7,000 artists names and their artworks!
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

ArtsEd Image Finder (Getty ArtsEdNet)
Search by artist, title or date.
http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/index.html

Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi
A private, non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination of information on works of art preserved in churches, cathedrals
and monasteries all over the world.
http://www.christusrex.org/

Highly Recommended!
Exploring Image Collections on the Internet Resources at MIT and Beyond
An overview of resources for images - from archaeology, architecture and art to urban design. Includes sources within MIT and beyond.
http://libraries.mit.edu/rvc/image-collections/categories.html

French Cave Paintings
The beginning of maybe something big, linked from the French Ministry of Culture's homepage.
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/index.html

Image Collections and Online Art
Includes sites in the following areas: Africa & Diaspora; The Americas; Asia; Europe; Islam; Classical World of the Mediterranean; Photography Collections and Galleries & Sources
http://www.umich.edu/~hartspc/histart/mother/images.html

The Picture Collection
Time, Inc. has placed hundreds of thousands of photographs from its collection of more than 20 million photos taken since the
1930s for its publications online for the whole world to see.
http://www.thepicturecollection.com/

Metropolitan Museum of Art
View images from the Met.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/index.asp

New York Public Library
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

SPIRO
Searchable Architecture Slide Library from Berkeley, search by period or topic, subject, building or object.
http://www.mip.berkeley.edu/query_forms/browse_spiro_form.html

Symbols
This site contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
Their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth
teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
http://www.symbols.com/

Renaissance and Baroque Images
From slides taken by Professor C. W. Westfall and used in his survey course, Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (ARH
102), University of Virginia, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural History.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dic/colls/arh102/index.html

World Art Treasures
A treasure trove of 100,000 slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, devoted to art, and including the main
civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe. An awesome site!
http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/index_english.html


Image Search Engines:

Highly Recommended!
Google Image Search
"Google's Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with more than 150 million images."
http://images.google.com/

Diggit.com New image search engine!
Diggit is a new image search engine that lets you search for images using other images and keywords. Image matching is based on color, shape, and texture. You can even paint your queries right in your browser window using the Diggit FX (ActiveX) or Diggit Graffiti (Java) applets.
http://www.diggit.com/

Image Finder (SunSITE, Berkeley)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/

1StopStock
http://www.1stopstock.com/

Scour Net
http://www.scour.com/

Web Seek (Columbia University)
http://www.scour.com/

Updated: January 31, 2007