Image Resources: Subject Specific Collections

"The collection spans some ten centuries of Western illumination, and contains manuscripts from all the major schools."

Currently includes Britain and France.

"This website provides access to a comprehensive collection of images and detailed descriptions of Chartres Cathedral."

Fotosearch has more than: 1,000 images of Byzantine Architecture; 4,000 images of Renaissance Architecture; and 20,000 images of Medieval Architecture .

"The Digital Scriptorium is a growing image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts that unites scattered resources from many institutions into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It bridges the gap between a diverse user community and the limited resources of libraries by means of sample imaging and extensive rather than intensive cataloging."

A growing collection of 6400 artists and 35,000 works of art.

The collection includes over 30,000 works. Use the search box on the top to type your search keywords.

"UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts."

This site includes The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) collections.

A photographic survey of Asia's architectural heritage containing over 14,800 photos of 753 sites in twenty countries, with background information and virtual tours.

"This collection contains over four thousand color slides and black and white photographs of medieval Spain taken by the late Eugene Casselman (1912-1996) during his thirty years of travel throughout the Iberian peninsula. The images span over one thousand years of architectural history, from the seventh to the seventeenth century."

This site shows "a more appropriate way of representing the spaciousness of individual monuments, [...and] new ways to understand the relationship of ... buildings conventionally described as "Gothic" -- in terms of sameness and difference, found in the forms of multiple buildings within a defined period of time and space that corresponds to the advent of the nation of France."