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Art Museum Image Gallery

Looking for art images for educational and non-commercial use? The Library has recently activated a subscription to the Art Museum Image Gallery, a database containing art images and related multimedia from hundreds of museum collections worldwide.

The Art Museum Image Gallery contains over 160,000 images with full bibliographic information that includes curatorial text, provenance information, and various image views.

This database is of essential interest to scholars in art history, studio art, and design and will be of peripheral interest to those studying in history, religion, classics, and archaeology.

Highlights of the Art Museum Image Gallery include:

• Inclusion of fine and decorative art images, such as paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, costume, jewellery, furniture, glass, books, and manuscripts
  
  
• Broad coverage. The images span from 3000 B.C. to the present and originate from the cultures of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe
  
  
• A strength in contemporary and modern artists
  
  
• Flexible use. Images can be used for educational purposes, such as inclusion in lectures, papers, and other assignments
  
  
• RSS and email alerts functionality. Within the Art Museum Image Gallery, you can set RSS or email alerts to notify you whenever images are added that fit specific search criteria

The Art Museum Image Gallery can be accessed via the Library’s Research Databases page or the Fine Arts Databases page and can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases that the Library subscribes to such as Art Full Text and Art Retrospective.

For more information, contact:

Liaison Librarian for Classicial Studies, Film Studies, Fine Arts, Medieval Studies, and Philosophy
Ext. 35623

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