AMICA is the successor to the AMICO Library and is available from Cartography Associates. For Internet Explorer 7 choose insight Java; for all other versions of Internet Explorer choose insight Browser.
The Art Museum Image Gallery (AMIGa) is a rich digital resource of art images gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. It can be searched alone or simultaneously with the Art Index databases.
Art Resource, a digital image archive, contains over 100,000 keyword-searchable images from prehistoric times to the present. It includes high-quality images of works of painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor arts from the world’s major museums, monuments, and commercial archives. Art Resource carries the works of almost every major museum in Europe, and functions as the official rights and permissions representative for many institutions in the United States and abroad.
ARTstor is an image collection database launched by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Click here for Offline Image Viewer guide: Search Tips OIV
Atlas is a database of the works of art exhibited in the Louvre (approximately 30000). The Web user, like the visitor, will find the information traditionally shown on the labels next to the works of art.
Includes images from the Beazley Archive, located at Oxford University, of more than 250,000 black and white mounted and catalogued photographs of major types of classical art. The largest number (about 200,000) are of Greek Pottery. Also included are more than 10,000 images of Greek and Roman Sculpture.
The Bridgeman Art Library represents museums, art collections and artists throughout the world by providing a central source of fine art for image users. The collection includes images of fine art as well as of design antiques, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics and anthropological artefacts.
The British Museum’s fully searchable Collections Database (formerly called Compass) currently includes objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan; central, south and east Asia and the Museum’s collection of two-dimensional pictorial art. As of August 2008, there are almost 500,000 objects in the database and about 175,000 have one or more images. An additional 1.3 million records will be added by the end of 2009.
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CAMIO, the Catalog of Art Museum Images Online documents a broad range of works of art from the collections of prominent museums. It includes art from prehistoric to contemporary times, from all cultures and in all mediums.
CAMIO is only accessible to MMA Staff.
This collection contains a wealth of images documenting the sculpture on gravestones, most of which were made prior to 1800, in the Northeastern part of the United States. To view the collection click on the Insight Browser link.
Iconclass is a subject specific international classification system for iconographic research and the documentation of images. (Click on the Illustrated Libertas Browser.)
A thematic/iconographic index of early Christian and Medieval art objects from early apostolic times to 1400 A.D. with no geographical limitations.
Rhizome.org is an online platform that supports the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion, criticism, and preservation of contemporary art that uses technologies in significant ways. Founded in 1999, the Rhizome ArtBase is an online archive of new media art containing some 1600 art works, and growing. The ArtBase encompasses a vast range of projects by artists all over the world that employ materials including software, code, Web sites, moving image, games and browsers to aesthetic and critical ends.
Please note that though most of Rhizome.org is IP-authenticated, some of their services require a Rhizome login. All MMA staff can create a Rhizome account for free by signing in with their Museum email at the Rhizome Sign Up page.
This is a database of art, architectural, and museum object images. The images included currently come from the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art; the Kelsey Museum of Archeology; the Slide and Photograph Collection, Department of the History of Art; and the Los Angeles Chicano Murals, Private Photograph Collection, Susan Atkins.
The Timeline of Art History is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated especially by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. First launched in 2000, the Timeline now extends from prehistory to the present day. The Timeline will continue to expand in scope and depth, and also reflect the most up-to-date scholarship.
A digital image collection portal that includes more than 300,000 works from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world. Users can search through multiple collections ranging from antiquity to the present for a particular artist, time period, or medium. For Internet Explorer 7 choose insight Java; for all other versions of Internet Explorer choose insight Browser.
