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JSTOR
Important scholarly journals delivered as high quality page images and articles downloads are in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to current year depending on each journal's publisher. Subjects include: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Search engine for the Met's public domain images
National Gallery of Art
Look for: "This image is in the public domain."
British Museum
Instructions for finding and downloading images
Amsterdam Rijksmuseum
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Getty Museum
Limit to "Open Content" after selecting a time period. Click on download and select desired size.
Elements of Art (from the Getty Museum)
Includes brief description of the use of space in art.
Brooklyn Museum
Non-commercial use of text and images in which Brooklyn Museum holds the copyright is permitted, with attribution, under the terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License.

Oxford Art Online
Access to art reference works: Grove Art Online, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
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