Research Guides: FA 171B Buddhist World Art: Finding images

Lisa Zeidenberg

she/her/hers

Contact:

lzeidenb@brandeis.edu

781-736-4697

Subjects: Art, Architecture and Photography, Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies, Film Studies, Music, Theater and Dance

Artstor This link opens in a new window
"ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes." See next box for more.

The Huntington Archive (Ohio State): Digital Collection
"Includes more than 200,000 photographs of art and architecture from throughout Asia. The countries included in this collection are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand."

Grove Art Online (Part of Oxford Art Online)

Provides the most organized and direct path to a huge number of image links. Here's how to find the images after clicking on Grove Art:

Type artist's name or topic into search box -- click go.
Select relevant article from the results list.
Click on External resources link in the left margin of the article page (not every article includes this link).
Links to external images are found directly below the article

Note: when clicked, external images connect directly with the museum or image site in a new window; you're likely to encounter some broken links.

Art Resource
Commercial site, but database is freely available for searching
Google Arts and Culture
"Features content from over 1000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online."
Google Advanced Image Search
If you want to go fishing on the Web for an image rather than using the Web sites noted above, this is about the best way to do it.