Library Guides: Art history: Images and photography

Images and photography databases

The Library subscribes to a number of image databases. Search these to find reproductions of Australian and international art.

Artstor
The ARTstor digital library contains more than one million digital images in the subject areas of painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and many other forms of visual culture. Users can search, view, download, organise and share images.

Trove: Australia in pictures
Flickr account hosting thousands of images that are also searchable via Trove.
Trove - Pictures, photos, objects
Search photographs, negatives, artworks, drawings, posters, postcards and other pictures, as well as physical objects such as puzzles, instruments and clothing.
Bridgeman Art Library
With images from over 8,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists, the Bridgeman Image Library represents international museums, galleries and artists by providing a central source of fine art for image users.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online. Photography: The world through the lens
This database assembles collections of photographs, photograph albums, photographically illustrated books and texts on the early history of photography from libraries and archives from across the globe. This resource includes images from Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Search the collections of art galleries and museums for images of artwork in their collections.

Google Art Project
Provides access to high-resolution images of artwork housed in museums listed.
Getty Research Institute Photo Archive (US)
The Photo Archive's two million photographs provide supplementary and original pictorial research for the study of fine arts from antiquity to the modern period.
Smithsonian (US)
Search over 17.9 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 8 million online images, audio and videos and blog posts.
National Gallery Picture Library (UK)
Victoria and Albert Museum (UK)
Louvre (FR)
Museo del Prado (SP)
Le Gallerie Degli Uffizi (IT)

Note: Check the terms and conditions and cultural warnings relating to images before reproducing them in your work.