Finding Images

Image Resources

ARTstor A digital library of images with associated information and software tools designed to enhance teaching, learning, and scholarship. A detailed guide is available.
Bridgeman Art Library Archive, A substantial collection of images of art, architecture, and cultural artifacts, with extensive topical categorization and cross-references
Saskia Digital Images The collection contains 30,000 digital images of paintings, sculpture and architecture, including images from many important collections including the Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the Louvre as well as archaeological sites in Greece, Italy, Turkey, and Egypt.

archINFORM Focusing primarily on twentieth-century architecture, this database includes information one over over 14,000 built and unrealized projects from various international architects and planners
Cities/Buildings Database From the University of Washington, "a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web."

Art & Architecture A searchable collection of images from the Conway Library of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Art Images for College Teaching Focusing primarily on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art arranged in chronological sequence, from original photographs.
Artcyclopedia “The Fine Art Search Engine” An extensive index of on-line images of fine art, primarily from museums and galleries.
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur des Bildarchivs Foto Marburg Database of images available from the Bildarchiv Photo Marburg, primarily in black and white. Classified iconographically according to the Iconclass system.
Index of Christian Art A photographic and bibliographic archive of Medieval Christian art, with an increasing amount of images available on-line.

Digital Sanborn Maps, Illinois, 1867-1970 Historical maps of Illinois towns, often with architectural information.