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History of Art, UC Berkeley
This Image Resources Guide was created as a resource for finding images of art and architecture. It is intended to serve faculty and students in the History of Art Department at The University of California Berkeley.


ARTstor



Core Collections

ARTstor & UCB Visual Resources Collection (UCB only) 
http://www.artstor.org 
Subscription database of over a million images of art and architecture. This is a core collection for art history instructors. The collection is comprehensive for artworks from prehistory to the present. Over 70,000 of the UCB Visual Resources digital assets are available through the ARTstor portal. See the ARTstor quickstart guide here for help with getting started with this database.

​Prometheus Database (UCB only)
http://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/en/
Prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently connects 87 databases with over a million images from institutes, research facilities and museums on a common user interface. It is free for all UC Berkeley History of Art faculty, staff, and students. Register for an account on the Prometheus website and select the 'UC Berkeley' institution subscription option. You will then have to email one of the admins listed on the website in order to activate your account.

Google Art Project 
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/u/0/project/art-project
 Extremely high resolution images from 250 different institutions in over 40 countries. Contributors include: Gemaldegalerie, Berlin; National Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Uffizi, Florence and many more. Downloads are not available, but images can be used from within the site. The user can also create personal galleries from within the site. 





Website images permission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, www.metmuseum.org 
Chinese, Tikshna-Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Ming dynasty(1368-1644), Gilt bronze
Suzuki Kiitsu, Morning Glories (detail), 19th C., Japanese, Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, & gold on gilded paper
Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid (detail), 16th C., Italian, Oil on canvas 
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970, American, Utah, mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water 
Greek, Carnelian scaraboid, early 5th century B.C., Carnelian, gold
French Medieval from Limoges, Chasse of Champagnat, ca. 1150, Copper, engraved and gilt; champlevé enamel
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (detail), 1787, French, Oil on canvas
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