ART & ARCHITECTURE: Find Images

Online platform through which the public can access high-resolution images of artworks housed in the initiative’s partner museums

Website which aims to show the entire UK national collection of oil paintings, the stories behind the paintings, and where to see them for real. It is made up of paintings from thousands of museums and other public institutions around the country.

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A free, open-access resource with over 3,300 entries, the database brings together representations of the interior from the 15th century through the 21st century. This database is unique in allowing researchers to study "the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of domestic buildings; the objects that furnished those rooms and the ways rooms and objects were represented; how people used rooms and furnishings; and how they thought about them."

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

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Provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints, photographs and more.

Currently free access to use images from the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Images from the Getty Research Institute and Conservation Institute will soon be added.

Repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. More than 25,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.

This site provides access to over 100,000 high resolution images including manuscripts, paintings, etchings, early photography and advertisements from the historical holdings of the Wellcome Library in London. The images have been released under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence and can be used free of charge, with an acknowledgement of the original source (Wellcome Library, London).

Free access to more than 20,000 high quality downloadable images of artworks from LACMA's encyclopedic collection.

More than 22,000 items in the Walters Art Museum can now be viewed and downloaded online for free, without copyright restrictions.

Free online access to high-resolution images from Yale's cultural collections.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam offers 273,000 images of its works through the Rijksstudio.