Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology

Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology, McCormick Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544. Phone: 609 258-3783, Fax: 609 258-7560
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Resources Relating to Images

Many Museum Websites contain selections of images from their collections.

Guide to searching the internet for images from the Technical Advisory Services for Images (TASI) and Art Links on the World Wide Web by Jeffery Howe, Boston College.

The Copyright Crash Course maintained at the University of Texas (Systemwide) web site has information on fair use, getting permission to reproduce words or images, and a wide variety of presentations on copyright for various audiences.

Image Collections

ARTstor is a large online digital image collection.

Almagest contains digitized images for study and class use, accessible throughout the campus.

AMICO Library, the Art Museum Image Consortium AMICO is available from all Princeton networked computers. The database contains over 78,000 works of art digitized by AMICO members. The library consists of works from Europe, including ancient Greece and Rome; works from North America, including Pre-Columbian (Meso-American) art; works from Asia, including ancient Asia Minor; works from Africa, including ancient Egypt; works from South America; and works from Oceania.

Art Index indexes images in periodical literature. To search for an image, select "Advanced search" and choose "Art reproduction" as the article type.

AP Photo Archive (AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) contains two photo databases, an international photo archive and a Euro/Asian photo archive, as well as a graphics database.

Artcyclopedia is available via the Web. A commercial site, it is useful for locating images, though the information it provides on artists and artistic movements should be checked against a resource like the Grove Dictionary of Art.

David Rumsey's Visual Collections is a digital image collection portal that includes more than 300,000 works from museums, universities and private collections throughout the world. Combined, the collected works create an unparalleled online resource in the arts and humanities that is available for free, public access.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online includes links to images in most of its articles.

Perseus Digital Library is available via the Web. The library contains a wide range of primary source material and is especially useful for the study of classical antiquity and archaeology. Contains images from architecture and site catalogs; the sculpture collections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Berlin Antikenmuseen, and the Musée du Louvre, Paris; the Dewing coin collection; and vase collections from the Berlin Antikenmuseen, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Harvard University Art Museums, University of Mississippi, University of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island School of Design, Tampa Museum of Art and Toledo Museum of Art.

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