Section 1 - Licensed Image Databases (CCNY community only):
Archivision This is an educational image resource for architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes, and public art. The image collection was professionally photographed by an architect who was a former visual resource curator. Descriptions are included. At present, the site offers approximately 22,000 images. Additionally, the CCNY visual curator is adding thousands of architecture (and art) images to this number.
Archivision’s Web site notes that, “The Archive's "base collection" is a core collection representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century and Modern sites pulled from [Archivision's] more than 100,000 slide archive."
ARTstor This is a digital library of 500,000 images including 82,000+ images in Architecture and City Planning. Other images relate to art history classes. ARTstor allows you to search, browse, & analyze images and data. You can create and save groups of images. With ARTstor, your professors can create a folder of study images for your classes that you can access online.
Grove Art Online The Grove Dictionary of Art offers 40,000 articles on art and architecture plus images from the Bridgeman Art Library, an online database of 35,000+ images of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts. More are being added towards a goal of 100,000 images.
ArchINFORM "This database includes information for more than 14,000 built and unrealized projects from various architects and planners. The architecture of the 20th century is the main theme of this database." The search box leads you to images as well as descriptive materials, some bibliographies, and other links.
