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Image databases
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International image databases

Image databases which are available in the network of the university:

Remote database access  | WebVPN


ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.
(For remote access please install VPN client software. Instructions at TaiK Onni: ARTstor.)

The Bridgeman Art Library
Contents: fine art, design antiques, maps, architecture, furniture, glass, ceramics, anthropological artefacts etc.

Grove Art - Search External Image Links
Links to searchable image databases and editorially selected links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world. Images are relevant to articles featured in the dictionary Grove Art Online.

EBSCO Image Collections
Photos of people, natural science photos, photos of places, historical photos, maps and flags.

Other image databases:

Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America - The Library of Congress
Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures.

Art Serve - Australian National University
Art & Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin,
Japan and now India

Art Project powered by Google
Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.  

AXIS - For Information on Visual Arts
Online guide to practising artists in the UK.

Bildarchiv zur Kunst und Architektur in Deutschland
Der Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur bietet 1,6 Millionen fotografische Wiedergaben im Originalzustand existierender, veränderter oder vernichteter Objekte, einfacher Gebrauchsgegenstände wie komplexer Kunst- und Bauwerke.  

Cyclope -The Netherlands Media Art Institute
Descriptions of over 1300 works and approximately 60 installations are provided. It's also possible to find biographies and stills and video fragments can be viewed. Visitors can search on artist, title, description, subject, year and in combination. A list of artists and keywords is available.

COLOURlovers
COLOURlover is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. 

Flickr

Galleri Nor - Nasjonalbiblioteket
Fotodatabasen tar sikte på å presentere materiale fra flere sentrale aktører i norsk fotohistorie, og hadde ved relanseringen over 70 000 søkbare bilder.

GETTY IMAGES
Contemporary photography, illustration and archival images.

Google-Image Search International Image Databases

iBoogie Image Search

JACQUES-EDOUARD BERGER FOUNDATION: World Art Treasures
Slides belonging to the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation, all of them devoted to art, and including the main civilizations, such as Egypt, China, Japan, India, Europe.

Joconde - Musées de France
Archéologie, beaux-arts, arts décoratifs, ethnologie, histoire, sciences et techniques.

LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art

LIFE photo archive (Google) 

Lineamenta
On-line collection of architectural drawings from the Roman Baroque period.

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Collection

National Gallery of Art Washington - The Collection
Collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present. More than 5,600 objects from these collections are now available online.

The National Museum association´s photographic agency
Over 200 000 photographs of works of art collected in the national and regional museums of France, museums such as the Louvre, Orsay, the Centre Georges Pompidou or the Picasso Museum.

PhotoGraphic Libraries

Picture Australia
You can earch for people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad.

Rama IX Art Museum - The Website of Thai Contemporary and Modern Art

SCRAN (Scotland)
The learning image service with 300,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media.

SILS Art Image Browser - University of Michigan
Database of art, architectural, and museum object images.

SPIRO - University of California, Architecture Slide Library
The visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs.

The State Hermitage Museum – Digital Collection

Tate Collection
Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1500 and of international modern art.

Visual Arts Data Service 
AHDS Visual Arts collections form a body of digital materials covering all subject areas of the visual arts, from textiles to architecture, including their practise, study and curation.

Web Museum - Artist Index

Video Data Bank
VDB makes video art, documentaries made by artists, and taped interviews with visual artists and critics available to a wide range of audiences.

World Wide Art Resources - Artist Index

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