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Visual Electronic Resources

Databases of visual images have been growing steadily. When indexed and tied to specific art research purposes, these image resources can be very helpful for teaching and presentation.

ARTstor
This organization is a not-for-profit scholarly developer and distributor of electronic digital images for art study, gathered from museums and other cultural institutions. Users can build their own file of study images.

Index to Christian Art
This database was developed by Princeton University’s Index to Christian Art, useful for iconographic study of themes, media, and motifs from Western and Eastern Orthodox Christian belief, covering Early Christian to Medieval art through 1400.

NYPL Digital Gallery/NYPL Digital Library Collections
The Library’s searchable database of visual materials documenting culture studies and social history from antiquity to the present. Access to over 450,000 images from the Library’s collections includes illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, and printed ephemera.