Art history beginning research: Find images
Students will find books, articles, films, images and reference sources for their research paper with an emphasis on full-text e-resources.
Image resources
- ARTSTOROver 3 million high-quality images covering multiple disciplines. Rights have been cleared and images can be used in papers and presentations. It is now part of JSTOR.
- Visual Resources Center's ImagebaseCollection of approximately 200,000 images which are used for research and teaching at Stanford. Download available.
- Cantor CollectionsWorks from the permanent collection only. Some records include bibliography in addition to object information.
- Anderson CollectionWorks from the permanent collection. Some object records include short essays.
- EuropeanaEuropeana.eu is a digital library containing 4 million items, including images, texts, audio and video, from European museums, galleries, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. Search by collections, filter by availability.
For contemporary artists, check search engines, social media and artist's website.
