Visual Resources Collection
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- GLAM & Open Access Images+
Explore resources related to finding and using images for teaching in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Open Access and other Databases on the Open Web
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Artstor Public Collections (see also this page on this guide)
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Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) (see also this page on this guide)
- Index of Medieval Art: This index covers specific works of art (including many images), subject classification terms, and bibliography affiliated with the artwork
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Rhizome: An online archive of new media art (e.g., net.art and Internet art)
Selected GLAMs with Open Access Initiatives
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“Codices Electronici Sangallenses” (Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen) (The use of digitally reproduced images is regulated by a Creative Commons License. This permits the use of individual images for non-commercial purposes (particularly in the areas of education and research), as long as proper source citation is used.)
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The Digital Walters (Digitized manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum collection with high resolution downloads available, free for any use under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license) and Walters Ex Libris (Manuscripts from the Walters with page turning capabilities, also free for any use under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license.)
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Free High Resolution Images from the Victoria and Albert Museum (The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is allowing scholars and individuals to use high resolution images free of charge for academic/scholarly publications, study and research and in student theses. See the link for full terms and conditions of use.)
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.) Images - High Resolution Downloads (More than 20,000 open access digital images are available free of charge for download and use.)
- Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Selected GLAMs and Websites with Searchable Online Collections
- American Numismatic Society
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Baltimore Museum of Art
- Barnes Foundation
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts
- British Library Digitised Manuscripts
- British Museum
- Brooklyn Museum
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Dumbarton Oaks
- Frick Collection
- Gallica (Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and its partners.)
- Harvard Art Museums
- Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
- LACMA
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
- Louvre
- Mauritshuis
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Morgan Library & Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA)
- National Gallery, London
- National Gallery of Canada
- Nationalmuseets Samlinger, København
- National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
- New York Public Library Digital Gallery
- The Newberry
- Norton Simon Museum
- Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Princeton University Art Museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Seattle Art Museum
- Smithsonian Institution
- SMK Open (Statens Museum for Kunst, København)
- Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
- Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
- The State Hermitage Museum
- Tate
- Uffizi Gallery, Florence
- Walters Art Museum
- Worcester Art Museum
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale University Art Gallery
Free or Fee?
Looking for free and fee images? Want to get started with right clearance? Visit CAA’s Image Sources And Rights Clearance Agencies to learn more and for a list of image banks.
Additional Image Databases at Hopkins
In addition to Artstor and JSTOR, the Johns Hopkins community has access to images through databases such as:
- EBSCOhost Image Collection A wide array of maps and images, with an emphasis on world news and events, and contemporary and historical photos of people, places and the natural kingdom.
- Oxford Art Online: Images Images from Oxford reference works
For more ways to find images, see the Images page on the library's Art History Research Guide and see the Finding Images guide.
Roman de la Rose Digital Library
- Roman de la Rose Digital LibraryThe Roman de la Rose Digital Library is a joint project of the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The creation of this resource and the digitization of manuscripts from the BnF was made possible by generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The goal of the Roman de la Rose Digital Library is to create an online library of all manuscripts containing the 13th-century poem Roman de la Rose. We currently have digital surrogates of more than 130 Roman de la Rose manuscripts, and our collection continues to grow.