Images
Looking for images related to Rome? Try searching the websites and databases listed here to find some great resources.
Image Websites & Databases
- Beazley Archive"The art of ancient Greece and Rome, and its collection and reception since antiquity"
- CapitoliumAn official source of live information on the archaeological site of the Imperial Forums. Online visitors can follow daily the development of the work which is being carried out by top-level scholars of Roman antiquity.
- Art Images for College Teaching This link opens in a new windowImages of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance European art & architecture that can be used in any application that is both educational and non-commercial.
- ARTstor This link opens in a new window
The ARTstor platform will be retired on August 1, 2024. All existing and new content has been moved toJSTOR
High-quality image and media from some of the world's top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. - Bridgeman Art Library This link opens in a new window
High-resolution images from museums, art galleries and collections ranging from cave paintings to contemporary art, as well as design, furniture, glass, ceramics, anthropological artifacts, maps, and architecture.
- Gallica This link opens in a new window
Works in the public domain from the collections of the National Library of France and its 270 partners. Searching can be done in English but most of the content is in French.
- Getty Search Gateway This link opens in a new windowThousands of images from multiple Getty collections which are free to download.
- NGA Images This link opens in a new windowA repository of open-access digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. Please include the following credit with any use of one of its open access images: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Museums
- Kelsey Museum of ArchaeologyThe Kelsey Museum houses a collection of nearly 100,000 ancient and medieval objects from the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East.
- Museum of Classical ArchaeologyThe Museum of Classical Archaeology is one of the few surviving collections of plaster casts of Greek & Roman sculpture in the world.
- The LouvreContains Egyptian, Roman, Etruscan, and Greek art.
- Toledo Museum of ArtThe ancient civilizations of Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome are represented in TMA’s collection by masterworks in stone, clay, wood, glass, bronze, and precious metals.
- Institute of Nautical ArchaeologySite dedicated to the exploration of nautical archaeology. Run by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, it contains photographs and narratives of various underwater excavations.