Art History

Use this website to find and view descriptions and images of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the British Library, one of the richest collections in the world.

MDR is a curated database of peer-reviewed digital materials for the study of the Middle Ages. Users can browse an alphabetical list or search using controlled-vocabulary subject tags to find vetted online resources of many types, including: imagebanks; bibliographies and reference works; pedagogical tools; editions and translations; music and other multimedia collections; interpretative websites; and new works of digital scholarship.

On this website, you will find selected projects from issues of the magazine 1945-1967

Go beyond the usual sources. Discover new avenues of research and gain deeper understanding of your topics with original materials including artworks, photographs, publications, recordings, and other artifacts. Explore important and rare collections from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world.

The National Film Registry selects 25 films each year showcasing the range and diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its preservation.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world. View timelines, MET publications, and more than 375,000 images of public-domain works from the collection on the website.

The museum houses more than 110,000 pieces of various collections, most of which are representative works of different periods and great artworks of Chinese art masters from ancient times to today, constituting art development history since the beginning of modern China.

View Histories of Art and virtual museum visits.

Download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images. Access more than 3.9 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.