Art & Art History Subject Guide — Locating Digital Images

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Includes over 5,000 photographic images from the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago.

Thumbnail images of photographs, daguerreotypes, lantern slides arranged by photographer and collection from the vast holdings of the George Eastman House

View a digital collection of photographs and prints owned by the Library of Congress, dating back to the Civil War. Also includes posters, comics, daguerreotypes, and blueprints.

In 1923, Harold Bucklin took his family Shanghai and produced an exquisite body of work of large format photographs of Pre-Revolutionary China using a Graflex camera.

Online exhibition of Chinese art from 1850 to present

Represents forty years of field documentation photography by the Huntingtons. In 1986, the two History of Art professors at The Ohio State University formally expanded their photographic collection. Partnering with the History of Art department, the Huntingtons created an institutional archive to house images of art from countries central to their personal research, as well as other areas of the Buddhist world. The Huntington Archive is devoted to providing pan-Asian documentation and resource materials for scholarly research and classroom teaching.

A ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.

Illuminated manuscripts and other works from Oxford University's Bodleian Library Special Collections

Corsair Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts in the British Library, London.

Learn how to identify the saints in medieval and renaissance art. Read the stories to which the paintings refer. Find out the "why" behind traditional elements in paintings of scriptural events.

Contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century. The majority of the slides focus on the Mudejar style, an ornate court style largely inspired by Spanish Islamic architecture that was shared among Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures during the later Middle Ages in Spain.

Extensive documentation of Chartres Cathedral and the Benedictine Abbey Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vezelay, including photographs, drawings, plans, and historical information.

A listing of dozens of online resources that cover the entire span of the history of fashion. The sources are also listed by century. Children's, men's, ethnic & folk fashions as well as military arms and armor and all types of cosmetics and accessories are also covered.

This collection includes 417 fashion plates from 1806-1914 from some of the leading fashion journals of the times: La Belle assemblee, Le Bon ton, Le Follet, Courrier des Salons, Journal des dames et des modes, Godey's lady's book and magazine and others.

Online Sources for Historical and Fantasy costumes. Search sample images of the a collection, consisting of more than 30,000 costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries.

Personal costume design web page with links to other sites. -

Over 1,000 links about costume and costuming-related links.

The collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day, with the emphasis on progressive and influential designs from the major fashion centers of Europe. The V&A collections also include accessories such as jewellery, gloves and handbags.

A collection of modern and contemporary art from Latin America

Harvard University's collection of 19th and 20th century pamphlets