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Fine Arts & Art History

This research guide provides resources for topics related to Fine Arts and Art History.

This page features open-access internet resources that anyone can use, related to Fine Arts & Art History. 

Internet Resources

  • Google Arts & Culture 

    • Discover digitized artwork from ancient artifacts to modern paintings. Explore by medium, time period, geographical region, and more. 

  • Calisphere

    • Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical recordings, and more.

  • Free e-resources from the British Library

    • "You can find a list of freely available e-resources in this guide. These have been selected by our experts and are listed by title. This guide includes websites, full-text databases, abstracting and indexing databases and other reference sources."

  • Louvre Museum

    • Over 480,000 objects viewable online, including artifacts, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and more. 

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    • Provides digitized access to over 375,000 works from the Met including artworks by region, costumes and fashion, artifacts, and more.