Examples of different types of art history collections.
CAA List of Art Image Banks
http://www.collegeart.org/ip/ip_image
Federated Collections
Sites that pull in digital items from many different sources for a shared repository of sources:
- ArtStor: http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
- ArtBabble: http://artbabble.com/.
- CLAROS, http://www.clarosnet.org/XDB/ASP/claroshome/index.html
- Europeana: http://europeana.eu/portal/search.html?query=who%3A+Vincent+van+Gogh
- Google Art Project: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/project/art-project
- Smithsonian Collections Search Center, http://collections.si.edu/search/
GLAM collections
Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
- Archives of American Art, http://www.aaa.si.edu/.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Research Image Catalog, http://library.clevelandart.org/search_images
- Getty Open Content: http://www.getty.edu/about/opencontent.html
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online
- Museum of Modern Art, http://www.moma.org/collection/advancedsearch.php
- Museo Nacional del Prado, https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/
- Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
- Van Gogh Museum created the Vincent VanGogh, the Letters, digitized archive, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/
- Victoria and Albert Museum, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/
- Walters Art Gallery, http://art.thewalters.org/
- Some GLAM collections are only available in an app for a tablet or smartphone
- Brooks Museum, website http://brooksmuseum.org/permanentcollection vs the apps, http://brooksmuseum.org/apps.
- MOMA’s AB-EX exhibition catalog
University Collection Sites
- Leonard da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting, University of Virginia: http://www.treatiseonpainting.org/home.html
Auction Sites
- Christie’s, http://www.christies.com/?sc_lang=en
- eBay, http://ebay.com
Machine-Readable Collections, APIs
- Museum APIs: http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs
- Examples of what can be done with an API, Brooklyn Collection Application Gallery, http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/docs/application_gallery; Cooper-Hewitt’s Collection Color History, http://dataclimber.net/blog/2014/1/19/cooper-hewitts-collection-color-history, Serendipomatic, http://serendipomatic.org/