Current Subject: Art & Architecture

Best of Legends - Guided access to primary source material, scholarship, historical surveys, reviews & commentary on topics in folklore, ballads, legends, literature, sagas, & fairy tales. Emphasis is Western European. Features King Arthur, Robin Hood, & Beowulf. Cited illustrations feature images of works from the Middle Ages through the early 20th century children's books illustrators such as N.C. Wyeth.

Digital Archive of American Architecture - Contains nearly 1,500 digitized images of American architecture (280 buildings) plus explanatory material. 17th through 20th centuries are covered. Includes public & commercial buildings. A project of Boston College with emphasis on New England& area.

European Visual Archive - A searchable image resource containing digitized historical photographs from the holdings of the London Metropolitan Archives and Stadsarchief Antwerpen.

Great Buildings Collection - Great buildings from around the world & across history are listed. Downloadable 3D models of great buildings are provided free & ready-to-view & walk through with DesignWorkshop Lite, downloadable free. Many still images are also available.

National Gallery of Art - Images from the collections of the National Gallery. Major achievements in painting, sculpture, & graphic arts from the Middle Ages to the present are featured. Images are searchable by artist, title or medium.

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress) - The PPOC contains catalog records and digital images providing access to about 60% of the still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division, as well as some images found in other units of the Library. Searchable by Keyword, Subject/Format, Creator/Associated Names, Title, or Reproduction/ID number.

Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures - Information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world. Deals mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc. Users can browse by several means: structure name, type, or function; engineer or architect; companies involved in the design or construction; geography or chronology.

SYMBOLS.com - Encyclopedia of graphic symbols, containing over 2,500 Western signs and ideograms arranged into 54 groups and searchable using Graphic and Word Indexes.