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* Art Images for College Teaching
Presents a selection of images of notable art and architectural works. Images are arranged in categories from Ancient to 20th century art and are accompanied by a brief description including references to widely used art history textbooks.
* ArtServe
An extensive collection of several thousand images of art and architecture, mainly from the Mediterranean Basin and Japan, can be viewed here. Use the directory to search for images arranged by country, medium or subject category.
* Auckland Art Gallery Collection Auckland
Browse or search thousands of images from the Auckland Art Gallery Collection
* Auckland Museum Paintings And Drawings Collection
Highlights from the paintings and drawings collection include several watercolours by von Tempsky, Charles Heaphy sketchbooks, Maori portraits by Goldie, Lindauer and Merrett, and views of the Auckland area painted by European artists and observers.
* Bridgeman Art Library
"The Bridgeman Art Library is the world's leading source of fine art with images from over eight thousand collections and twenty nine thousand artists. The Bridgeman archive is renowned for being the world’s richest, most reliable and most prestigious source of fine art images covering every media, period, movement and style throughout the history of art."
* British Council Collection
More than 8,000 works covering all aspects of British art & design from the 20th & 21st centuries. Search for an image or artist biography, or use the interactive 'My Exhibition' feature to create your own collection of favourite works.
* Christchurch Art Gallery - Gallery Online Te Puna o Waiwhetu Christchurch
A selection of images from the permanent collection currently on show at the Christchurch Art Gallery.
* Collections Online
Online gateway to Te Papa's collections
* Digital Imaging Project
Contains more than 9,000 art historical images of sculpture and architecture from pre-historic to the present day. Search by artist, period or location.
* Dunedin Public Art Gallery - Search highlights from the collection
A small selection of work online.
* Getty Collections Los Angeles
Browse many of the works of art on display at the Getty Museum
* La collection du musée national d'art moderne (Centre Pompidou) Paris
* Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collections Online
Over 20.000 images online.
* Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections New York
3500 items from the Museum's extraordinary collections including clothing, arms and armour, musical instruments and of course art works.
* National Portrait Gallery Search London
A search facility with 60,574 portraits from the Gallery's collections, 40,288 of which are illustrated.
* NICE Paintings: The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings
Nearly 8,000 paintings from around 200 museums and other public collections across the UK.
* Pacific treasures database
The Auckland Museum has a world-class collection of Pacific treasures. This database, a work in progress, hopes to enrich your understanding of both the treasures in our collections, and the cultures from which they have come.
* Picturing America
These 40 pieces of American Art have been chosen to be brought into American schools and libraries. Pieces range from oil paintings to architecture and each is complemented by additional resources.
* Tate Collection London
Explore the online database of 50,000 works
* Te Papa Picture Library
A small selection from Te Papa's photography collection.
* Victoria and Albert Museum Images Online London
"You may search here for over 16,000 works and over 20,000 images from the V&A collections. The database covers a wide range of objects, including ceramics, fashion, furniture, glass, metalwork, paintings, photographs, prints, sculpture, and textiles."
* Visual Arts Data Service - high quality images for use in education
The gateway to over 100,000 high quality digital images free for use in education
* War Art Online
Over 600 images from the National Collection of War Art comprises official pieces of war art, commissioned by the New Zealand government, and other unofficial art works acquired by or donated to government departments. An interactive site including video clips and information about war art and the artists in the collection. From the collection held by Archives New Zealand.
* Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassical and Romantic periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 13,500 reproductions.