Library Home: Open Educational Resources by School: Art & Art History

Databases

Cabinet of Curiosities: Domenico Remps, second half of the 17th century.

ARTstor
ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Login required.

Open Courseware

MIT Open Courseware
MIT Open Courseware offers an extensive series of online courses from their Architecture department. Courses generally include lecture videos, assignments, exams, and more.
ARTH101: Art Appreciation
Explore visual art forms and their cultural connections by learning about the history of art and its principles. Study the elements, media, and methods used in creative thought and the creative process.

Ebooks in the Library

The library has an extensive collection of ebooks on a variety of topics. To find what is available, enter your subject in the library catalog and select as a phrase in the drop down menu. If a book is in ebook format, it will say view ebook in the record.

Almost all of the library's ebooks are multiuser. This means that your whole class could access the book simultaneously and for free!

OneSearch - Walter W. Stiern Library Catalog

Resources

Search for "Art" or "Art history" to find over 1000 resources. Refine by type, level, subject area, and more.
Kahn Academy -- Art History
Kahn Academy offers a variety of unites & short videos on art history topics. (Scroll down to Arts & humanities to browse what is currently offered.)
Mütter@Home
This Mütter Museum webpage hosts a variety of activities on exhibitions and the intersection between art and medicine.
The Guggenheim Museum
The Guggenheim offers art catalogs, essays on art history and more all freely available online.
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, originally launched in 2000, presents the Met's collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool.

Free Textbooks

College Open Textbooks
A collection of free art textbooks available online or for download.