An extensive list of Internet resources linking to both imagery and scholarship, covering art history from the prehistoric to the 20th century. There are also links to research resources, art departments, museums and galleries.

Emphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture.

Aims to pull together every work of art available online by artists represented in the art collection of, or be part of a major exhibit at, an appropriate fine art museum.

Historical image & document archive specialized in Asian American visual culture from 1945 to the present. Current emphasis is on artists participating in Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) exhibition program initiated in 1983.

One of the largest collections of contemporary art available online. Art.sy features works from galleries, museums, foundations and estates, with many of the works for sale. Powered by The Art Genome Project, users can discover works through connections between art-historical movements, subject matter, and formal qualities, creating infinite serendipitous opportunities for discovery and learning.

20th Century and contemporary visual artists

Digital collection of artists' books and related materials under the direction of Johanna Drucker. The collection can be searched by keyword or by index.

Focus on Chartres and Vézelay. Also featured on this site: Autun (Cathedral of St. Lazare) Saint-Denis, West Facade of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard, Poitiers- Notre Dame la Grande, and Toulouse-SSernin

Thousands of digital images from the Pierpont Morgan Library’s renowned collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts.

Contains nearly 300,000 original color slides and black and white and color photographs of art and architecture throughout Asia.

More than 6,000 photographs of artists and art-world figures, letters, sketches and sketchbooks, diaries, printed materials, ephemera, and other documents from the Archives' collections. Select "Digitized Items"

Based at the Farnham Campus of The University College for the Creative Arts (UK). Over 100,000 images of paintings, drawings, sculpture, design, fashion, textiles, crafts from dozens of collections.

VIRCONA currently contains information about more than 500 native North American visual artists, both deceased and living, from across the spectrum of traditional and contemporary practice including painters, printmakers, sculptors, carvers, ceramists, basket makers, textile workers, jewelers, designers, photographers, installation artists, digital artists and more.

Pre-1900 watercolours from public and private collections documenting the world before photography

The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. The plan is to cover the entire history of art — from cave artworks to the new talents of today.

Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and the BBC completed their hugely ambitious project to put online the United Kingdom’s entire collection of 212,000 paintings oil paintings in public ownership. This makes the UK the first country in the world to give such access to its national collection of paintings.

One thousand plus super high resolution images from world museums. Move around museum galleries with google's Street View technology. Learn more about the museums and artists with linked YouTube videos.

The Photoarchive is a study collection of more than one million photographic reproductions of works of art by fourth to mid-twentieth century artists trained in the Western tradition.

Thousands of images of artworks are available for download, without charge, under the Getty's Open Content Program. Look for the Download button under the image.

Online catalog for museum collections across France.

Repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections which allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain.

Web-based versions of auction catalogues, catalogues raisonnés, and scholarly research projects, as well as artist, gallery, and museum websites.