Art Images





Hi-res open source images of The Met's art collection.





Hi-res images of various paintings in the public domain.





Hi-res open source images of The Smithsonian's art collection.





A large collection of art in the public domain, easily searchable with keywords.





A keyword searchable database for art from many museums, all of which are open source.



The British Library has uploaded over a million free images to Flickr for anyone to ‘use, remix and repurpose’, mostly from old books. Find patterns, decorations, and many vintage and historical images.

A collection of vintage-style images available for free download. Images are packaged into small groups that you get with one download, such as a folder of 8 vintage crows, which you will need to unzip after download.



A collection of images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library hosted on Flickr. Find thousands of vintage art of animals and nature all available for free use.

A collection of maps from the 16th up to the 21st century. Maps include cities, the world, geography, the ocean floor, and even celestial maps. The search feature also allows you to search by "text on map", which will return cropped images of the searched text from the maps in the collection.





Thousands of free art images available for both personal AND commercial use with no need for a license.