Art & Humanities Subject Guide

Aavaa had grown to become the most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period.

Searchable website that explains art & art history terms and includes images of famous artworks from various time periods

Website offering links to various art history resources online

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is committed to making a broad range of digital images of artworks in the public domain widely and freely available for scholarly and academic publication. To assist in navigating the vast image content on this website, the Museum has implemented Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC). Through OASC, artworks in the Collection section of the website which the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions have been identified by an icon, Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon;

Publications on Art History

The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by Congress, from a gift of Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington.

Explore, learn and engage with the National Museum of African American History and Culture through our numerous digital resources.

The National Portrait Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition and study of portraits
of people who have made significant contribution to American history

Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities.

"The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery."