Finding Images Online - Search Engines & Databases

Search Engines for images of all types

• Google Image Search
  Click on the 'Images' tab.
• Alltheweb Picture Search
  Click on 'Pictures'.
• Altavista Image Search
  

Australian Image Collections

• Picture Australia
  A web gateway to online picture collections from many organisations including the National Portrait Gallery, Powerhouse Museum, Australian War Memorial, National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, and State and municipal libraries.
  
  
• Australian Libraries Gateway to Image Collections
  Directory of pictorial web sites and image collections from the Australian Libraries Gateway.
  
  
• Culture & Recreation Portal
  Directory of websites about all aspects of Australian culture including visual arts.
  

International Image Collections & Databases

• ARTstor
  ARTstor is an international database of more than one million digital images for teaching and research in a range of disciplines including: Visual Arts, Design, Architecture, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Renaissance Studies, History, Literary Studies, and Music.
  ARTstor images are derived from the collections of museums, galleries, libraries, photographic archives, and publishers.
  ARTstor is available to ANU staff and students from any computer on campus and from off-campus via the Remote Login for ANU Users page.
  
  
• Grove Art Online & Oxford Art Online
  Grove Art Online is an authoritative reference resource for students of visual art and art history.
  From 2008 Grove Art Online has been incorporated into the larger Oxford Art Online database. It includes links to online images from art gallery and museum web sites worldwide. Grove Art and Oxford Art are available to ANU staff and students from any computer on campus and from off-campus via the Remote Login for ANU Users page.
  
  
• Art Resource Digital Library
  High quality images of works of art from major museums and commercial archives.
  
  
• Artcyclopedia. The Fine Art Search Engine
  Museum-quality fine art on the internet.
  
  
• British Library Images Online
  Access to thousands of images from the British Library's picture collections.
  
  
• COLLAGE Image Database
  Database of images of works of art from the Guildhall Library and City of London Gallery.
  
  
• ImageBase
  ImageBase provides access to the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
  
  
• Timeline of Art History
  A chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, with images from Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  
  
• VADS: Visual Arts Data Service
  VADS is a UK-based online resource for visual arts. It is a portfolio of visual art collections comprising over 100,000 images for use in teaching, learning and research in the UK.
  
  
• Web Gallery of Art
  A searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1150-1750) containing over 15,000 reproductions.

Art Museums and Galleries

• Art Galleries Worldwide
  Directory of art galleries from around the world from the Virtual Library Project.
  
  
• Museums Worldwide
  Directory of museum websites around the world from the Virtual Library Museums Project.
  
  
• European Museums Guide
  Directory of art galleries and museums in Europe