International Image Sources
Art History Resources on the Web Prof. L. C. E. Witcombe is a collection of selected links pointing to external resources with pictures of historical artistic objects. Easy to navigate. Almost all resources are external, consequently the quality of the images varies, mostly only suitable for online viewing.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
"The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division and, in some cases, other units of the Library of Congress. The Library of Congress offers broad public access to these materials as a contribution to education and scholarship.
The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people."
American Memory
the Library of Congress provides a record of United States history and culture.
Offers free electronic access to a wide variety of documents: written
and spoken word, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints,
maps, and sheet music.
British Library: Online Gallery
More than 90 000 images and audio as well as maps; historical and
contemporary, exhibitions and collections.
Smithsonian Online Collections and Datasets
More than 2 million records with 265,900 images, video and sound files,
electronic journals and other resources from all across the Smithsonian.
Provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. Fully searchable and organized into more than 800 portfolios within which which are subject groupings.
World Art Treasures
The Berger Foundation's more than 100,000 images of Western European, Chinese, Japanese and Indian painting, sculpture, and architecture.
ArtServe
Australian National University, Art & Architecture department. Provides images mostly from the Mediterranean, Japan and India
NICE Paintings - The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
Provides records and an growing collection of digital images ,of almost 8,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings from 200 public collections across the United Kingdom. The database has been created by the National Inventory Research Project (NIRP), based at the University of Glasgow.