Library Guides: Art: Images & Videos

Image Databases & Websites

Art Institute of Chicago: The Collection
Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection—from world-renowned icons to lesser-known gems from every corner of the globe—as well as books, writings, reference materials, and other resources.

ARTstor
Note: You will need to create a free account to download and save images.
Digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Digital Public Library of America
Discover nearly 30 million images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States
Europeana Digital Collections
Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitized items from European countries – books, music, artwork, and more.
Getty Open Access Images
The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose (more than 99,000 images). No permission is required.
Images from the National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has shared their entire collection of nearly 53,000 open- access images.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Collections
Search collections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
WikiArt: Visual Art Encyclopedia
WikiArt presents both public domain and copyright protected artworks.

Art and Architecture in Video
500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and applied topics, with context necessary for critical analysis.
Note: The content in this database can also be found by searching the larger Academic Video Online Collection.
Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library
Over 1,200 hours of videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide. Covers major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York, and London, and topical segments on events like the Met's Costume Exhibits, CFDA Awards, and feature interviews with designers and celebrities of the fashion world.
Note: The content in this database can also be found by searching the larger Academic Video Online Collection.
Films on Demand
A streaming video database that offers over 30,000 titles. The videos cover a variety of academic subjects, from producers such as BBC, PBS, Meridian, National Geographic, and more. Links can be shared through email, integrated into WebCampus, or viewed in the classroom.

Creative Commons Image Search
Allows for searches of openly licensed and public domain works across millions of images.
Pexels
High-quality and completely free stock photos and videos. No attribution required.
Pixabay
Royalty-free photos and videos, shared as part of the public domain.
Pxhere
Freely usage photos. No attribution required.
Unsplash
Millions of free high-resolution images created by the world’s most generous community of photographers.