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Fine Arts: Images

Images in Marquette Databases

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Academic Search Complete from EBSCO
Guest Access
Searches 7000+ journals and magazines across all disciplines, mostly full-text. Emphasis on scholarly journals. 1985 - present.

Oxford Art Online from Oxford Press by Oxford
Access limited to 1 user at a time.
Provides access to The Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 signed articles and images on every aspect of the visual arts. Content updated 3x/year. Includes several other art reference works.

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Sources: The Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (print edition: 1996, 34 vols.); The Oxford Companion to Western Art, ed. Hugh Brigstocke (2001); The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics; and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Web Resources

Archives of American Art
" Roughly 16 million letters, photographs, diaries, oral history interviews, sketches, scrapbooks, business records, and other documents that support the study of the history of the visual arts in America." Image Search.
Art Resource
Fine art stock archive which contains over 250,000 fine art images which are keyword searchable. "Offers a range of material from prehistoric times onward and functions as the official rights and permissions representative for many institutions in the United States and abroad." Charges fees for publication and projection quality images.
Bridgeman Art Library
"The Bridgeman Art Library works with museums, art galleries and artists to make the best art available for reproduction." Some images available for Purchase.
Digital Imaging Project
"Art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to post-modern"
Flickr
Flickr is an image and video hosting website which is searchable. Remember to check the rights statement associated with a photo before using it. See https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ for definitions of licenses.

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The Commons within flickr contains photos that have permission to be shared; note: some have specific limitations. Many of these are vintage photos. To search The Commons click on Explore.
Google Images (advanced search)
To search for images from Life Magazine add source:life to the end of your search.
Greetings from Milwaukee
The Thomas and Jean Ross Bliffert Postcard Collection of 755 postcards of Milwaukee. From the Archives at UWM Libraries.
Special Collections and University Archives
e-archives at Marquette University Archives and Special Collections
Marquette University Special Collections and University Archives
Photographs of Marquette since its inception; Carl Van Vechten's Portrait Archives, Holy Rosary Mission-Red Cloud Indian School; Women in Blue and Gold and more.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access for Scholarly Content
"400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including in scholarly publications in any media"
National Gallery of Art - NGA Images
Search, browse, share and download from more than 20,000 digital images.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
"Provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more." Most images may be printed or downloaded.
NYPL Digital Gallery
"Provides free and open access to over 700,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Prints and Photographs Reading Room of the Library of Congress provides access to about 75% of the Division's holdings, as well as to some images found in other units of the Library of Congress. Not all images displayed in this catalog are in the public domain.
Time & Life Pictures
"Content from the finest photojournalists, documenting past and present political and cultural events, as well as celebrities and the American experience."
Web Gallery of Art
"Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Romanticism periods (1000-1850), currently containing over 23.200 reproductions."
Wellcome Images
"The Wellcome Library, in London, specializes in the history of medicine." 100,000 art images related to medicine, the body, public health, and medical science ae available free to download.