SEARCHABLE ONLINE IMAGE DATABASES

• AMICO [Art Museum Image Consortium]: art from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania; art from ancient civilizations is included. You can do a simple (by creator, title, or keyword) or an advanced search. In the advanced search, you can search by creator, title, type, materials/technique, date, subject, owner's name, owner's place, and keyword, with some Boolean search features. Your search results display in a Headings List; choose which headings you want, and then click SEND. There are brief and full views. You can print the images or download the images into JPEG files for personal use.
  NOTE: THIS DATABASE IS RESTRICTED TO VANDERBILT USERS.

• Bridgeman Art Library: part of the Grove Dictionary of Art Online, but must be searched separately. You can choose a simple or an advanced search. In the advanced search, you can use one or more of the eight fields: title, artist, nationality, century, broad topic, medium, location, keywords. In order to view a larger image and the full caption from your results display, click on the image. These images can be printed for personal use only; for commercial use, you must contact the Bridgeman Art Library for copyright information.
  NOTE: THESE DATABASES ARE RESTRICTED TO VANDERBILT USERS.

• Artcyclopedia (http://artcyclopedia.com): This site provides a fairly comprehensive set of links to online images from various museum and other kinds of art web sites. If you want an overview of an artist's work, then these links will help you get a sense of the artists' style and favorite subjects. There is some brief biographical information, as well as some definitions of various artistic movements. You can search by artist, title (using the exact title or a keyword), or art museum; you can browse by movement, medium, subject, and nationality.

• ArtNet (http://www.artnet.com/): from ArtNet Magazine. This site allows you to search for over 16,000 artists who are represented by over 1,300 member galleries. The search box is at the top right corner of the page.

• Web Gallery of Art (http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index.html)--This web site calls itself a "virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque periods (1150-1800), currently containing over 9,200 reproductions. Biographies, commentaries, guided tours are available." Besides a search feature, you can browse a Quick Index (artists in alphabetical order), an Artist Index (with more detailed information), and the Guided Tours.

• World Art Treasures (http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/): This collection of 100,000 slides from the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation contains images of art from many European and Asian civilizations. Scroll down until you see the search box on the right side of the page. You can also browse by artist, location, time period. There are also a few selected essays and lectures on themes and artists.

MUSEUM WEB SITES WITH SEARCHABLE DATABASES: If you already know the location of the artwork, you can go directly to the museum's web site, and searching is usually done by artist/creator or by title. The following list is selective and in alphabetical order. If the museum you are looking for is not here or in the next list of museums with browsable collections, then try one of the Umbrella Sites listed below, or try an Internet search engine to find the museum's web site.

• Art Institute of Chicago (http://www.artic.edu/aic/)
  The link to the search feature is at the top left of the museum's home page; you can also link to the search feature from the View Collections page (this page provides overviews for different sections of the collection--click on the image).

• Detroit Institute of Art (http://www.diamonddial.org)
  Art Image Database: You can choose galleries by geography (Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East), and then you select a category (e.g., painting, sculpture). Then you see the images in chronological order. You can also search directly by full title or Artist (last, first), and be aware that this search engine is case sensitive. You can also look at the Rivera Archive.
  

• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco: The Thinker ImageBase (http://www.thinker.org/index.html)
  The keyword search box is at the very bottom of this page, or you can click on the "Advanced Search" or "Virtual Gallery" links.

• Guggenheim Museum (http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/index.html)
  Use the search feature or browse the directories of artists, titles, dates, movements, mediums, and concepts. The helpful definitions of movements include illustrations.
  

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (http://www.lacma.org)
  Click on "Collections Online" (top right corner) for the search feature or browse the collections via the link on the left side of the page.

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html)
  Once you have read the disclaimer, click on the "Search the Catalog" button.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search.asp)
  You can choose from (or combine) several different search boxes, including "keyword" at the bottom of the search screen. Be sure to hit the "Go" button at the bottom to complete your request.

• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (http://www.nga.gov/search/search.htm)
  Search by artist's last name or by keywords in title; there is also a "search this site" feature on this page. Collection tours are also available on the online tours page listed below.

• National Portrait Gallery [London, UK] (http://www.npg.org.uk/collect.asp)
  Searchable database of the collection, with about one-third available as online images. You can also browse the different galleries or scan the illustrated timeline.
  

• Smithsonian American Art Museum (http://americanart.si.edu)
  Click on the Search link at the top of the page to search the collection for artists or objects.

• Tate Collection [UK] (http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm)
  Searchable database includes works from all four Tate museums: Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St. Ives. The site also includes interactive tour of the Tate Britain gallery.

ONLINE IMAGE COLLECTIONS: These sites have browsable lists of images; the museum sites have browsable collection highlights and/or virtual tours.

• Art Images for College Teaching (http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/html/index.html)--"AICT is a free-use image resource for the educational community." Choose the historical time period in order to see the images. This site has a textbook concordance: there is a list of images that correspond to textbooks widely used in undergraduate art history surveys.

• Artchive (http://artchive.com): The site features biographies and image lists, as well as some bibliographic citations for about 200 artists. The link to Theory and Criticism provides excerpts of analyses of some famous paintings and some reviews of exhibits.
  Click on the image of Mona Lisa to get the list of artists (alphabetical) and movements. Click on the Galleries icon for the virtual tours.

• Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/): browse the alphabetical artist index or the collection types (painting, sculpture, etc.).

• Louvre Museum, Paris (http://www.louvre.fr/louvrea.htm): collection highlights from the 7 departments, as well as a virtual tour.

• Museum of Modern Art, New York (http://www.moma.org/): Click on Collection Highlights.

• National Gallery [London, UK] (http://nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/default.htm)
  Browse this "Collection Index" of artists listed in alphabetical order, or browse by period and subject via the link "Collection Explorer."
  

THEMATIC SITES

• National Gallery of Art's Online Tours (http://www.nga.gov/onlinetours/onlinetr.htm): the link to "American Art: Explore 10 Themes" covers Abstraction; The Figure; Historical Subjects; Landscape Painting; Marine Painting; Portraiture; Narrative Art; Scenes from Everyday Life; Still Life; Topographical Views. Other overview exhibits include "American Impressionism and Realism" and "Art Nouveau, 1890-1914."

• Smithsonian American Art Museum has online exhibits of its "Treasures to Go" exhibits (Young America, Lure of the West, American Impressionism, The Gilded Age, Scenes of American Life, Modernism and Abstraction, Contemporary Folk Art, Arte Latino) at http://nmaa-ryder.si.edu/treasures/. Click on "index" on the right side of the page to see the list of works, or click on "artworks" to see the pictures.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/index.asp): There are two links to "Timeline of Art History" on this page, as well as the collection highlights from the different departments (including the Cloisters).

• Early American Painting in the Worcester Art Museum [1671-1830] (http://www.worcesterart.org/Collection/Early_American/)--the timeline of historical events puts the paintings in context; bibliography may also be helpful.

• Getty Museum (http://www.getty.edu/art/collections/): subjects include mythology, religion, people and occupations, science and industry.

• American Memory Online Collections [Library of Congress]--Collection Finder page (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/phcoll.new.html)

• National Gallery [London, UK] (http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/guides/default.htm): Myths and Legends (Judgment of Paris, Jupiter), Personifications (Time, Charity), Saints (Sebastian, Jerome), Painting Types (imaginary landscapes, real landscapes

UMBRELLA SITES: These sites are lists of links to other web sites; use these sites to find more information about artists, movements, online images, or museum web sites.

• Art History Resources on the Web (http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html)
  Organized by period, but be sure to scroll down the entire page within the period since things aren't always in alphabetical order. Note also the link to Museums and Galleries, including those in foreign countries.

• Art Source (http://www.ilpi.com/artsource/welcome.html)
  Click on the links for Image Collections and for Electronic Exhibitions.

• Images on the World Wide Web: A Guide to Resources and Collections
  (http://library.mcad.edu/pages/guides/image.html)
  Includes links to photography and public domain images also.

• The Mother of All Art History Links (http://www.art-design.umich.edu/mother/)
  Annotated list of links to image collections and online exhibits; includes sites devoted to archeology as well.

• Virtual Library Museum Pages (http://vlmp.museophile.com)
  "A distributed directory of on-line museums" that includes links to international museums, galleries, and libraries. Organized by countries.
  

• Art Guide: The Art Lover's Guide to Britain and Ireland (http://www.artguide.org/uk)
  Includes guide to museums and a list of artists on view.