The "PEM collection offers outstanding works primarily from the 1700s to today: paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, textiles, architecture and decorative objects. Our African, American, Asian, maritime, Native American and Oceanic art emphasizes the lively conversation that occurs through creativity across time, place and culture." (from their Collections page)

View over 20,000 high-resolution images of artwork from the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C. Artworks include paintings, sculpture, and works of art on paper, from the late middle ages to the present, from Europe and the United States.

See images of the art works created by Octavio Medellin, and of works in process, in this online collection.

Read the full catalog of the exhibition "China: 5,000 Years , Innovation and Transformation in the Arts", including photographs of artworks and scholarly essays.

"This website of traditional Japanese treasures and culture was produced for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and it is a virtual museum that includes physical objects and other more intangible items of cultural patrimony, such as fighting styles and performance art. Visitors can scroll over any of the seven "galleries" to read a description of what types of work are contained within. The "Fine Arts" gallery is defined as those visual arts primarily concerned with the creation of beauty, such as architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture, and Ukiyoe." (Internet Scout Report, January 13, 2012)

"This unique collection housed at the University of Maine represents a broad spectrum of pre-Columbian and Northwest Coast art collected between 1965 and 1970. The items here include 550 tomb figures from the Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit cultures of Weste

Interior and exterior photographs of medieval buildings in England and France, with an emphasis on Gothic cathedrals. Some images are of higher quality than others.

The "Altar of Augustan Peace" was built in 13-9 BCE, during the reign of the Roman emperor Augustus. This website from Reed College include high-quality images of the altar and its magnificent sculptures, reliefs and friezes, along with models, diagrams a

Photographs of the Mourners, small sculptures that surround the tombs of two medieval French dukes.

"The Claire Holt Papers, #14/27/2648, comprise approximately 1,780 slides of Indonesia, which were created for the Cornell Indonesian Arts Project. Subjects include art, architecture, ceremonies, landscapes, painting, people, sculpture, textiles, and thea

The Flickr Commons allows libraries and museums -- including the Smithsonian Institution, the Brooklyn Museum, the Getty Institute, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library -- to post their digital images. These images may be photographs,

The Philadelphia Museum of Art focuses on American, European and Asian art, textiles and decorative arts. Click on "Collections" to search the collections, view gallery highlights, and listen to thematic audio tours via podcast. Images of many of the work

Review from the Internet Scout Report: "This website from the Getty Museum accompanies the exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci and the Art of Sculpture: Inspiration and Invention", organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and on display in Los Angeles unti

The Frick Collection is the legacy of Henry Clay Frick, a coke and steel magnate. Construction on his New York mansion, designed by the firm of Carrère and Hastings, began in 1913 and took several years to complete. It was designed with the expectation th

Smithsonian Libraries, Archives and Museums have worked together and created the Collections Search Center, a one-stop-searching center for the public for SI collections. This fast growing Collections Search Center is hosted by OCIO and currently contains 2.3 million records with 280,000 online media such as images, sound files, videos, and online collections.

The online collections of the Art Institute include images of and information about more than 45,000 works from their physical collection that covers all types of art, from all over the world, from pre-historic times to the present.

Maintained by the University of Southern California, this site includes hundreds of images of art objects, architecture, archaeological remains, site-plans, and maps related to religious women and their communities in Europe, from the 9th century to the p

A project of the European Commission and hosted by the National Library of the Netherlands, Europeana is a virtual library of Europe's cultural and scientific resources. It contains 4.6 million digital items - images (of paintings, drawings, maps and phot

NOTE: IMAGES FROM THIS SITE MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED FOR ANY PURPOSE WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS!This site, created and maintained by the Courtauld Institute of Art (UK), contains over 40,000 images. Users can search by keyword or browse by topic, creator, location, or type of work. The majority of the images (nearly 30,000) are of European art and architecture, but Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania (Australia, New Zealand & the South Pacific) are represented as well. There are a few pre-historic works included, but in general, the collection starts with the Classical period and continues to the present day.
USAGE TIP: On your first visit, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click "About A&A". From there, click on the "How to Use the Art & Architecture Web Site" for information about how to find what you're looking for.

Maintained by the University of Brighton (UK), the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) contains nearly 19,000 images of British and Irish Romanesque stone sculpture, including columns, doorways, and other architectural details. I