Rensselaer Architecture Library

Free Resources on the Web:

• Art History Resources on the Web
• Art Images for College Teaching
• The ImageBase of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Searchable database of 82K images)
• Pictures of Record publishes scholarly annotated images for teaching anthropology, history, art history, archaeology, and many other disciplines.
• The Timeline of Art History
• Visual Resources Collection at Rensselaer Research Libraries

Licensed image databases for campus community only:

Archivision "Archivision" is an educational image resource for architecture, urban design, garden landscape, landscape architecture, and public art. Rensselaer Libraries has acquired the base package of the Archivision Digital Archive which is comprised of 16,000 images with extensive data. According to descriptions on their web site, the "Archive's Base Collection is a core architecture collection representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites selected from our more than 100,000 slide archive."

Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation Saskia Ltd. Cultural Documentation provides high quality digital images of works of art for scholarly study and research. Rensselaer Libraries has licensed approximately 3400 images from Saskia that are mounted on our campus-wide network and are for use by the Rensselaer community. The following are some of the sets of digital images we've purchased to accompany art history instruction.

indicates those databases restricted to Rensselaer users.