Walker Library: ART 3850: Medieval Art: Images

Timelines -- Searching for Art by Date

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
6,000 works are featured on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. It does not include all of the works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Use the "Time Period" limiter in the left column along with any other keyword or option limiters

Need some ideas? What's out there? Resources to help you find artwork for the assigned time period of 200-1000 AD.

Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Search by Date
Contains the available digital images of the entire Met collection. Use the gray "when" tab to select your time period.
British Museum -- Search by Date
Type in your date limitations. More than 175,000 pieces of art are listed for your time frame. You can then narrow further.

Image Databases & Websites

There are lots of excellent image websites out there. However, only websites that contain images of artwork created during the assigned 200-1000 AD time period are included in this list.

Artstor
Library Database. Digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and science.

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The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides over 2.5 million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
ImageQuest
Library Database. Collection of educational images.
World Book Advanced
Library Database. Images, maps, sounds, animations, and videos. To find images, click the "Images" limiter under the main search box; for everything else, click on the "Advanced Search" link and choose what you want. Citation suggestions are listed for anything you place in your "My Research" folder.

Heilbrunn Works of Art
6,000 works featured on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. It does not include all of the works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. Use the "Time Period" limiter in the left column combined with the other keyword and option limiters.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection
Contains the available digital images of the entire Met collection. Use the gray "When" tab to limit images to your assigned years.
Europeana Portal
Digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe.
Google Museum Images
High resolution images from more than 150 museums in over 40 countries. Search by name of artwork or by museum collection.
Smithsonian Collections Search
Type in a keyword or phrase. On the results page, use the date limiter in the left column.
ArtCyclopedia
Links to online images from various museums and other kinds of art web sites.
Walters Art Museum
"Find thousands of artworks from around the world. Get detailed information including conservation and exhibition histories. Download high quality digital images. Search, tag and create an online art collection. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts."
World Image Database
Global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. The images can be located using the search options on the left toolbar.
British Museum
The Museum’s entire digitized database. New records and images added every week.

Citing Images & Media

The Citation Style Guide has more helpful information. Style manuals are available at the 1st floor Reference Desk.

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ART 3850: Medieval Art: Images

Timelines -- Searching for Art by Date

Image Databases & Websites

Citing Images & Media