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FAH315 Michelangelo and His World: Find Images

A guide to the best resources on Michelangelo in Geisel Library and online

Image Resources on the Web

Artcyclopedia
Provides links to over 180,000 art images maintained on over 2,000 art websites (including many museums and collections from around the world). Search by artist, title, or museum.

Bing Images Search
Search for images on the Internet through Bing's image search. Use Bing's limiters and related search features to refine your image search.

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 Art Project
Explore 360 degree views of museums from around the world, and view examples of super-high resolution images of art in their collections.

Google Image Search
Search for photographs, illustrations, and artworks from across the Internet, using Google's well-known keyword search engine.

National Gallery of Art / NGA Images   More than 20,000 open access digital images up to 3000 pixels each are available free of charge for download and use.

SPIRO
The online catalog and image database of the Architecture Visual Resources Library of the University of California, Berkeley.
 

Web Gallery of Art    The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 11th to mid-19th centuries.

Yale Digital Content
Cross Collection Discovery (CCD) provides a way to search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio, and video documenting people, places, and events.

Primary Image Database

Connect to Jstor Images, a unique database that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.  These images can be printed for use in your paper, or included in PowerPoint demonstrations. Review the tutorial below, or .