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Image
Databases
Academic and Institutional Databases
Abdul
Hamid II Collection (Library of Congress)
nearly 2,000
images from the Abdul Hamid II large-format albums, dating
from 1880-1893 and depicting the Ottoman Empire primarily
in Turkey; available as uncompressed TIFF files
AMICO (Art
Museum Image Consortium)
thumbnails only without subscription
Art
Images for College Teaching (AICT) (Minneapolis College
of Art and Design)
Islamic
Spain only; includes bibliographic references for additional reproductions
ArtServe (Australian
National University)
good selection of high-resolution images; but many dead links
CIM
- Cairo Islamic Monuments (government of Egypt)
English version text has many mistakes but historical and contemporary images
are excellent
Cities/Buildings
Database (University of Washington)
keyword search is better than City and Country search
Courtauld
Institute
high-resolution
images of Islamic architecture
The
Creswell Archive
at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England; more than 6,000 black
& white images of medieval architecture of the Islamic world
by the reknowned scholar K.A.C. Creswell
Digital
Imaging Project (Bluffton College)
excellent resource but with only a few images of works by architects of the Islamic
world
ECAI Iraq
an
excellent aggregation of digital resources pertaining to the
cultural history of present-day Iraq; images, maps, descriptive
data and text
Fondation
Arabe pour l'Image (Arab Image Foundation)
collections
of historical and contemporary photographs from the Middle East
and North Africa
Gertrude
Bell Archives
rich
collection of photographs taken in the early 20th C; good resolution,
zoomable, with descriptive data
Harvard
University Library Visual Information Access (VIA)
for images, tick ‘restrict search to records that have digital images’
Hermitage
Museum Digital Collection
mostly decorative arts
ImageBase (Fine
Arts Museum of San Francisco)
Islamic minor arts and historical and cultural images; some architectural works
Isfahan (Anglia
Polytechnic University)
site
is difficult to navigate; images not high resolution and best used
for reference; list
of sites available
Library
of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
browse the
online catalog of its diverse collections
Library
of University of California Images (LUCI)
high-resolution images available only
to local users
Louvre
Museum
go to Collections -> Selected Works -> Oriental Antiquities or -> Islamic
Art
or to the Atlas database and tick box for Illustrated works only; search must
be
in
French
Matson
Collection (Library of Congress)
more than 7,500 images
of the Middle East between 1898 and 1946; high-res JPEGs
and uncompressed TIFFs available for download
Metropolitan
Museum Timeline of Art History
many
images of Islamic minor arts and ornamental styles, fewer of
architecture; excellent reference for architectural periods
Middle
East Photo Archive (University of Chicago)
early
photographs of the Middle East and Near East
New
York Public Library Picture Collection
some illustrations for search terms ‘muslim’ or 'islamic'
Photocrom
Collection (Library of Congress)
about 5,000 color images—many of the Middle East—date
from the late 19th C; available as high-resolution JPEGs and
uncompressed TIFFs
Produkin-Gorskii
Collection (Library of Congress)
beautiful, early 20th-century
images of Soviet Central Asia—architecture, people
SPIRO (University
of California, Berkeley)
rich collection of thumbnails with descriptive data
Symmetry & Pattern:
the Art of Oriental Rugs
site by the Textile Museum (Washington D.C.) and the Math Forum (Drexel University)
World
Heritage Centre UNESCO
limited number of images
Nonacademic Databases
archINFORM
high-resolution images and descriptive data for Islamic architecture
ARCspace.com
especially rich for modern and contemporary architecture
Artcyclopedia
limited for Islamic art and architecture: some minor arts and
photographs
Asian Historical Architecture
good reference source for sites in Southeast Asia, Afghanistan;
more limited for the Far East; includes interactive maps of
sites, image copyright and descriptive information, and bibliographic
references
Cartography
Associates' Visual Collections
site offering free access to collections from a number of institutions
Early
Islamic Tiles
(Anthony Slate-Ralph Fine Art)
images
of tiles collected
during late 19th century
Images of Africa
descriptive data consists only of village name; 300dpi images
available for download
Images
from the past
historical
photographs (including selection of photos by A. Bonfils)
and illustrations from Lebanon and the Levant
Great
Buildings Online - Islamic
Architecture
12 built works with descriptive data and bibliographic references;
good resolution images
Photographs
of Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine & Egypt
by
Luke Powell, includes many architectural works
Sacred Sites
by Martin Gray, images of select Islamic sites in Asia, Africa,
and the Middle East
Structurae
structures and large projects; basic descriptive data and good
resolution images; search is easiest by geographic location
VILAR: Virtual Landscape Gallery
Parks, gardens, landscape design; (few Islamic---Topkapi Palace in Turkey,
the Alhambra in Spain)
Commercial
Sources
AMICO (Art
Museum Image Consortium)
Archivision
Art
Resource
ARTSTOR
Bridgeman
Art Library
Canyon
Lights
Corbis
Davis
Art Slides
Dupuy
Art Images (Scala Slides)
Landslides
Aerial Photography
Media
for the Arts
Mother
of All Art and Art History Links Page
RLG
Cultural Materials
Saskia
Ltd.
University
of Michigan Slide Distribution
Visual
Resource Association's Image Providers Directory
Image
Portals for the Islamic World
Art
History Resources on the Web
Artifact
The
WWW Architecture Virtual Library
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