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Special Subjects

Algorithmic Image Gallery The gallery has many rooms  each one corresponding to an algorithm. Visit the "rooms" or  galleries by clicking on the main images.

Art Crimes is a gallery of grafitti art from various cities, much of it no longer existing.

Botanical Image Database
Searchable by broad topic (species, genera, woody plants etc) It helps to know exactly what you are looking for though random browsing is possible. University of Basel

Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi
Provides over 1,200 religious images including those from the Sistine Chapel, reproductions of Russian Icons,  manuscript illuminations and art by Giotto.

Lileks.com
Offers an extensive collection of vintage advertisements from the 1920s to the 1970s. Specializes in  humourous and "politically incorrect"  advertisements, photographs, pamphlets, comic strips, matchbooks, currency, postcards, "pin-up" drawings, and architecture. Analysis and remarks can be hilarious.

Medieval Mauscripts Collection
Includes images from fifty bound volumes of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 15th centuries. A project of Leeds University

Otis Collections Online: Artists' Books
Otis College of Art : Provides selective access to images of  faculty and student artists' books including covers and contents. Searchable by artists, theorists, groups, movements or institutions

United States National Library of Medicine: History of Medicine
A rich resource for medical imagery through time and around the world

Vilar Virtual Landscape Gallery
Comprehensive collection of European garden images from the 15th to 20th centuries.  Can be searched chronologically, geographically, by influence and garden type.