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Nikolaos Gyzis, Allegory of History, 1892, oil on canvas, private collection, public domain

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Photo Agencies

 

 Photo RMN

 Bridgeman Archives

 Scala Archives

 Alinari Archives

 Art Resource

 Getty Images

 

 Libraries

 

Yale Digital Content*

NYPL

Bodleian Library

INHA Bibliothèque numérique*

The Frick Digital Collections

Medical Heritage Library

British Library catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts*

Bibliothèque Royale des Pays-Bas

 

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (mss)

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli

Biblioteca Digital Hispanica

Codices electronici Sangalenses

Cambridge Digital Library

Parker Library on the Web (corpus christi college)

Corsair (Pierpont Morgan Library)

 

 

 Archives

 

 INA

 Fototeca Zeri

Archives Bernard Berenson

 

 

 

 

 

Critical editions

 

Cranach Digital Archive

Raphael Research Resource

Closer to Van Eyck

Van Gogh - The Letters

 OSCI Catalogues

Digital Montagny

Digital Mellini

Jan Brueghel Complete Catalogue

Friedlander 3.0

The Rembrandt Database

  

museum collections

 LACMA*

Metropolitan Museum of Art*

National Gallery London*

Indianapolis Museum of Art

British Museum*

National Gallery Washington*

Walters Museum of Art*

Rijksmuseum*

Tate Modern Collection*

The Digital Walters (mss)*

Powerhouse Museum Syndey*

Tate Modern Archive*

Musées de Bretagne*

Brooklyn Museum of art*

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Musée de l'Hermitage

Finnish National Gallery*

Royal Gallery of Denmark*

Victoria & Albert Museum*

Smithsonian Museums*

Art Institute of Chicago*

Dallas Museum of Art

J. Paul Getty Museum*

MNAM Centre Pompidou

Denver Art Museum

Guggenheim Museum*

Kyoto National Museum

MoMa

Musée d'Orsay

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art*

Walker Art Center

Pinacoteca di Brera*

Musée du Prado

Fitzwilliam Museum

Artistas - Musée Thyssen Bornemysza Madrid

National Museum of Norway*

Museum of New Zealand*

Van Gogh Museum*

National Portrait Gallery (Londres)*

York Museums Trust*

Wellcome Collection*

National Museum Stockholm*

Mauritshuis

Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon

 

 

 Portals

 

The Getty Trust Open Content Program*

Manus Online

DMMapp

Nuova Biblioteca Manoscritta

Census

Bildarchiv Foto Marburg

Base Joconde

Artstor

e-codices

OPenn*

Beazley Archive

Images d'art (RMN)

Arkyves

The Drawings of the Florentine Painters

Biblissima (beta)

Europeana*

World Digital Library

Pharos Art Reseach Database

Digital Scriptorium

Library of Congress Digital Collections

DPLA

 

BPK

Culture.fr (moteur collections)

Manuscrits enluminés des bibliothèques de France

Manuscripta Mediaevalia

Web Gallery of Art

Wikimedia Commons*

Creative Commons*

LUNA Commons

Prometheus Bildarchiv (OA)

Flickr Commons*

Index of Christian Art (beta)

Archive.org*

Rhizome.org

BVMM - IRHT

Artsy

Trove

 Manuscriptorium

Heidelberg Digitale Bibliothek

MDZ 

Virtuelles Kupferstichkabinett

DIAMM

Digital Bodleian

Polo Museale Fiorentino

Hollis Images (Harvard)

  

 

 

 digital projects

 

Mapping Titian

André Breton

Mapping Gothic France

Opening the Geese Book

Toulouse Lautrec Foundation

The Online Froissart

The Schøyen Collection

The Aberdeen Bestiary

The Burnet Psalter

The St. Albans Psalter

The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Codex Sinaiticus Project

The Polonsky Foundation Digitization Project

Roman de la Rose Digital Library

Images of Rome

Pictor in fabula

  

 

 

 Lists

 

 CAA Digital Resources

Chercher & Trouver (BNF)

Medieval Manuscripts Online

 Art History Resources on the Web

 

 

Reports, Guides & Declarations

Articles