Visual Arts

Met Publications

Five decades of MET publications on art history, available to read, download, and/or search for free.

Getty Publications Virtual Library

This collection currently has 325 art books available for anyone to read online and or download. You can search through the collection by author, keyword, or title, or simply browse the collection.

All of the free books are also available through Google Books.

12 Good Places to Find Creative Commons & Public Domain Images

On February 7, 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art implemented a new policy known as Open Access, which makes images of artworks it believes to be in the public domain widely and freely available for unrestricted use, and at no cost, in accordance with the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) designation and the Terms and Conditions of this website.

MAGNUS

Founded in 2013 and based in New York, Magnus offers everyone interested in art a way to track, discover, and share their art experience via the Magnus app.

Using both the most advanced technologies and years of tireless data compilation and manual data entry, we created a unique platform, showing not only prices from galleries and auctions, but also exhibition histories of galleries, museums etc.

Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world & official provider of art history for Khan Academy.