Subject guides: Medieval and Early Modern Studies: Images

Using images

Remember! Images, like text, music and everything else are protected by the Copyright law.

Guide to Copyright
This website will help you understand your rights and obligations relating to copyright law. It focuses on the sections of the Copyright Act that have most relevance to the University, its staff and students.

Image Collections Available from the Library

ARTstor
International collection of digital art images drawn from museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections and art reference libraries. ARTstor has specific technical requirements.

Image Collections on the Web

British Library Images Online
Thousands of images from the British Library's collections which include manuscripts, rare books, musical texts and maps spanning almost 3000 years. The range of images available include illustrations, drawings, paintings and photographs. There is also the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
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Terms & conditions. The content of this website can be accessed, printed and downloaded in an unaltered form (altered including being stretched, compressed, coloured or altered in any way so as to distort content from its original proportions or format) with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis for personal study that is not for a direct or indirect commercial use and any non-commercial use.
Smithsonian Images
Browse and search selected images from Smithsonian exhibitions, events and historic collections.
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Or Search over 9.6 million records of museum objects, archives and library materials including more than 1.4 million online media files at http://collections.si.edu/search/
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
VADS : Visual Arts Database
Searches a variety of collections including the "Spanish Civil War Poster Collection", "The Imperial War Museum", "Public Monuments and Sculpture Association" and "Suffrage banners".
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Terms & conditions.
All material supplied via VADS is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of the Data Collections is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form. You must obtain permission for any other use. Electronic or print copies may not be offered, whether for sale or otherwise to anyone who is not an authorised user.
Bodleian Medieval manuscripts
Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA)
An international research project dedicated to the publication of medieval stained glass. It contains a picture archive.
Google Image Search
The search engine uses captions, descriptions, and other contextual information index images on the Web