Research Guides: Classics: Find Images

Images for Classics

Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily Sixty terracottas in the J. Paul Getty Museum are investigated here by noted scholar Maria Lucia Ferruzza, comprising a selection of significant types from the Getty’s larger collection—life-size sculptures, statuettes, heads and busts, altars, and decorative appliqués.
Beazley Archive, Oxford
The world's largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.
British Museum Collection Search
Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 BCE- 1CE
Portraits and Portraiture (from Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome)
Princeton Art Museum Ancient, Byzantine, and Islamic Art
Roman Mosaics The mosaics in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum span the second through the sixth centuries AD and reveal the diversity of compositions found throughout the empire during this period. Recovered from various archaeological contexts, these mosaics provide a glimpse into the richly embellished architecture of the ancient world.

General Image Resources

Artcyclopedia
A different way to search for artists - search for a movement and Artcyclopedia will tell you which artists were part of that movement.
The Classical Art Research Centre
Provides an image collection of ancient art and pottery.
Galaxy of Images (Smithsonian Institution)
Search through images found in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries' book and manuscript collection. To locate images, search by keyword or browse by subject area.
Google Image Search
Search for photographs, illustrations, and artworks from across the Internet, using Google's well-known keyword search engine.

Primary Image Database -- Artstor

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Database of over one million downloadable digital images and associated descriptive data, including images from the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, and photography.

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Digital Image Databases

Academic Search Premier
Use to: locate images from popular magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals.
To search for images: hover over the word "More" in the blue bar at top of the screen, then select "Images" from the drop-down menu. Images are searchable by keyword; search limiters regarding image type (i.e. diagram, map, color photography) are also available. From the search results screen you will need to click on the thumbnails to view larger images and right-click on the image to download.

Other Databases with Images:

Grove Art Online [OXFORD] This link opens in a new window
Use the "Search for Images Only" option.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Once you are in an entry on your topic click on the "Images" link on the left side of the screen.
Contains both the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, as well as magazine and journal articles written by Pulitzer Prize winners and leading experts, a world atlas, country data, and timelines.

Continuously updated and enhanced on a daily basis with new articles, revisions, and related Internet sites.
eBooks [GALE] This link opens in a new window
Click "Advanced Search," enter in your keywords, and check the box before "to document with images."
Credo Reference [INFOBASE] This link opens in a new window
Click on the "Image" tab to limit your keyword searches to images only.