A million images of works of art and other artifacts of visual culture, intended to support teaching, research and learning in visual culture and related fields. Access is Penn State only.
The ARTstor Digital Library is an image database featuring works of art and other cultural heritage from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists in one easily-navigated repository. The library of 2 million images is constantly growing. All images are accompanied by extensive metadata and are rights-cleared for specified educational uses.
A growing collection of more than 25,000 images documenting the history of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other visual arts from prehistoric times to the present. These images were chosen from Penn State’s Visual Resource Centre's collection of digital images and slides. Access is Penn State only.
An illustrated encyclopedia of art and art history. Access is Penn State only.
Oxford Art Online combines several key encyclopedias and dictionaries important for the history of art and architecture. Together these provide the largest and most authoritative list of biographies of artists in English, as well as an excellent collection of scholarly encyclopedia articles on important topics in the visual arts. Included are Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and others.
Descriptions and images of more than 7,000 images in the permanent collection of the Palmer Art Museum at Penn State, including American and European paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, and sculpture.