Visual Arts

This is a growing digital archive of primary source material culled by individual art practitioners and researchers in cities across Asia.

Here is a collection of public domain resources (copyright free).

Includes approximately 6 million digital objects from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

These images are now available for free to download under the Getty's Open Content Program.

Collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail.

A collaboration between many art institutions and Google has resulted in access to over 40,000 high resolution art images including paintings, sculpture and even furniture from over 40 countries.

Fine Art collection from Google Arts & Culture including over 28 000 items from 351 international collections.

PHAROS is an international consortium of fourteen European and North American art historical photo archives committed to creating a digital research platform allowing for comprehensive consolidated access to an archive of images and their associated scholarly documentation.

Images with Creative Commons licences.

This is a searchable database of European fine arts and architecture (3rd-19th centuries), currently containing over 48.600 reproductions.

A portfolio of visual art collections, search for fabric or textiles to obtain relevant images. See also the Textile Collection.

This picture collection by the National Library of Australia focuses on Australian people, places and events from early European exploration of the South Pacific to contemporary events.

This is the National Gallery of Australia's portal for printed works from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand, New Caledonia and the Pacific region. Free online access to 16,000 images. Search the database by artist, subject or print techniques such as etching, woodcut, wood-engraving, linocut, lithograph, screen-print, monotype and other print processes. Index to online information on printmakers, print workshops, print publishers, print galleries and public and private collections.

Search online pictorial collections and access mages that cover all aspects of Australiana. Artworks include paintings, drawings, prints and posters of abstract art, fine art and portraits, photographs, objects including sculpture, scrimshaw, bark, costume, and weapons.

This picture archive in managed by the London Metropolitan Archives and provides free online access to over 250,000 images of London

This is art that is indigenous to the Himalayas, predominantly Tibet, Nepal and Kashmir. Himalayan 'style' art is primarily concerned with religious subjects.

Search 170,000 images of Victoria's history

Art UK's mission is to open up public collections for enjoyment, learning and research. They aim to show as much of the UK's national art collection as possible.

These images are in the public domain. This means they are copyright free and can be used by anyone for personal and commercial use.

This includes graphics illustrations and photos. All have a CC0 licence meaning they are copyright free and can be used for personal and commercial purposes.