Art and Architecture Thesaurus Getty Research Institute. Searchable database of terms used in art and architecture. Thousands of terms are added and edited every year.
Union List of Artist Names (ULAN) Getty Research Institute. Searchable database of artists' names. Useful when you don't know the when or where of an artist.
Archives of American Art Smithsonian's archive of primary sources (letters, diaries, photographs, oral histories, and more)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum of Art History)
Curationist Free online resource that brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives.
Web Gallery of Art Virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture from 12th to mid-19th centuries.
Art Images for College Teaching. Art and architectural works in the public domain
NY Public Library Digital Gallery NYPL Digital Gallery provides free and open access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's vast collections.
Museums with large collections of digitized images: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), J. Paul Getty Museum, Louvre (Paris), Atlas Gallery (London) , Tate (London).
