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LTTH 250: Writing and Theory: Images & visual material

Multidisciplinary image databases

General Art and Architecture Image Databases

Art Images for College TeachingEmphasis on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art and architecture.  

Art Institute of Chicago.  Unrestricted access to tens of thousands of reproductions of artworks in the collection.

Balboa Park CommonsDigitized photos and artifacts from Mingei Museum, Museum of Photographic Arts, SD Air & Space Museum, SD Museum of Man, SD Natural History Museum, SD Museum of Art, and Timken Museum of Art.

Cities and Buildings Database.  The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.

Google Art Project. More than 45,000 high resolution images from over 151 museums in 40 different countries.

MAID: Museum of Modern Art Archives. 50,000+ images digitized from the MoMA Archives, including letters, drawings, photographs, exhibition installation views, scrapbook pages, newsclippings, etc.

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMore than 440,000 works from the Met, unrestricted access to 375,000.

National Portrait Gallery, London.  87,000 free downloadable high resolution images for academic use.

Smithsonian Open Access. 2.8 two-dimensional and three-dimensional images available for download, share and re-use. 

Wikimedia Commons.  Images included here are in the public domain and freely licensed for educational use.

World Images100,000 images. Grew out of California State University Image project.  All images are copyright cleared for Educational use.