Looking for art examples to use in a project? Check out these sites for FREE art images:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Explore more than 406,000 hi-res images of public-domain works from the Met, all of which can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction. The Met's collection of digital images of artwork available for scholarly and academic publication are identified with an open access icon.
Getty Museum and Research Institute collection of over 85,000 images available for download and use.
NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. More than 51,000 open access digital images up to 4000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT)
A free exchange of over 2,000 images for educational use.
The Getty Research Institute provides access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) and to the Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art (RILA) for no charge on its website. These citation databases, searchable together, cover material published between 1975 and 2007.
PLEASE NOTE: These databases include citations and abstracts of art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealers' catalogs, and articles from thousands of periodicals in many languages, NOT full text. If you find a relevant source, please contact a librarian for help locating it.
Hiroshige, Bow Moon, 1832. Polychrome woodblock print. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Use the links and information on this page to find scholarly articles through library databases, free and open access images, and some of the art-related journals you have access to through the STCC library.
Please refer to the Home page of this guide for information on accessing these resources from off campus.
Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire, ca. 1902-06. Oil on canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Discovery is our library's version of Google. It searches all the STCC Library's research databases for scholarly articles covering all disciplines. Search any topic by keyword (not by asking a question). Example: gun control.
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Visit these databases to find background information, historical context, iconographic and stylistic analysis, interpretation, and criticism about art and art-related topics.
