Visit The Biodiversity Heritage Library. The art gallery at Yale University houses some of the finest examples of art from ancient times through to modern and contemporary works. Art inspires us, and imagination and creativity lead to artistic expressions that expand knowledge and understanding. The Getty sincerely hopes that people will use the open content images for a wide range of activities and that they will share the fruits of their labors with others.
Visit The Getty Search Gateway. Founded by Sir Henry Wellcome — pharmacist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and collector of more than a million objects which formed the basis of the collection in Five hundred year old drawing of a mechanical hand you say, at your service. The Wellcome Image Collection is a true Cabinet of Curiosities and our collective creativeness is all the better for it. Visit Wellcome Images.
David Rumsey started collecting maps over 30 years ago launching his website in the year The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. From early 19th century celestial maps to quirky hand drawn maps of San Francisco the site truly is a wonder of curation and a precious gift to map lovers everywhere. Yale holds the largest collection of British art outside the UK with over 70, images available to download and use for creative projects.
Over 3, Turner paintings, prints and drawings are represented while Constable makes do with a mere couple of hundred masterpieces! Browse over 3, public domain images of horses in sculptural and painted forms by some of the best British artists in history from Sickert to Seymour. One of my favourite cities is behind one of my favourite sites for public domain images.
Visit The Art Institute of Chicago. Mellon in in Washington, DC. NGA Images is their online collection of artwork with all images available free of charge for any use, commercial or non-commercial. Visit NGA Images. One of the most difficult parts of putting this post together is giving away the sites I want to keep secret so I can have all the best source material to myself!
One of my favourite collections is the 10, BC category featuring early art from all over the world. NASA seriously delivers in this collection of photos from the Apollo space programme that ran from — and includes the not too small accomplishment of landing the first humans on the Moon. For example you can download this iconic Buzz Aldrin photo in x high resolution to use for absolutely anything you want as NASA has generously placed it in the public domain.
Visit The Project Apollo Archive. Dozens of notable institutions are on board — view the entire list of contributing organistations or browse the whole collection at random. You could do worse for starters than viewing the collections of George Eastman House that range from the proverbial sublime moon landings to the ridiculous giant pigs to stretchy contortionists!
Visit Flickr: The Commons. Sculptures and art objects are expertly lit and captured in high resolution images that accentuate colour and form. The site is also one of the best designed and very user friendly with easy to download high res images. You can also search the collection using Tags with an A-Z of topics from birds to beards and tempera to terracotta. Visit The Walters Collection. Their online collection contains a large sections of drawings and an impressive array of Rembrandt prints.
Discover the intricately illustrated Prayer Book of Claude de France that can fit in the palm of your hand. How does this translate in real life? Wikipedia Featured Pictures sets the standard for freely distributing public domain images and I hope many other sites follow their lead. The Paintings , Architecture and Outer Space sections are particularly worth bookmarking for future reference. Hope you found this collection of public domain images helpful for making art and fuelling your creative projects.
Please share the post on social media if you found it useful, appreciate it! Often on hiatus from social media so best using the contact page to get in touch. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. In their gallery rules , published on their website, the Tate states that: Photography in the main galleries is allowed for personal, non-commercial purposes only.
I'm not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. Improve this answer. My book will appear in Russia. The painting I'm talking about is Rosetti's "Proserpine", which is currently located in the Tate Britain museum. Which authority can tell me whether I can use that painting on the cover of my book in Russia or not? Personally, I think this is a giant rip-off, allowing copyright to last indefinitely. Nevertheless, I believe what is correct. However, if you can find a book older than 70 years which contains a photograph of the painting, then that photograph should be out of copyright.
I'm not sure if the quality would be good enough for a book cover, though. Basically, I'd check with a laywer, if the Tate's licensing fees were higher than the cost of a lawyer Germany: around Euro. Or just pay those licensing fees, because after all the Tate preserved that painting, and I'm grateful that I can still view it and would like to contribute to that effort.
I am surprised there are expiration dates for the rights to a work of art. But such laws are usually enforceable only within the relevant country. And since the OP did not specify the country, there is nothing to be said, other than general rules implied by international copyright treaties in most countries.
When selling entrance tickets a museum may forbid you to take pictures on the premises, or limit their usage. Abusing this may be a contract violation, but not a copyright violation.
Such prohibition does not apply to copies obtained otherwise. Show 3 more comments. Checking wikipedia, Dante Gabriel Rossetti died in So you are pretty safe on that part. IANAL - not a lawyer - this is no advice.
There was a comment starting with: "Commercially publishing that photograph you took in the Tate in Russia would probably still be a You may notice I used the conditional, meaning that I was not sure of the actual situation. Taking pictures of a public domain work is unlikely to qualify as theft.
This is likely to be an area where laws vary widely. But I am no expert on this. BTW Is that why my answer was downvoted? Downvoting without explanation is useless to everyone. It does not even get the error corrected, if there is one. As to whether "If a reproduction of the painting has been made by a professional with specific care, he can claim that his copy is an original work" in the UK or EU, the analysis in this journal article seems to apply -- which is to say, almost certainly they would have no legal leg to stand on.
The gallery may be able to sue the photographer for breach of contract, but they would almost certainly have to prove that any such breach was intentional, which would be extremely hard to do. Again, I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. John Cole John Cole 11 1 1 bronze badge. So, Pollock's work? Benton's work? Reconstruction-era woodcuts? Go nuts.
Like that. Not everyone lives and publishes under US law. Unauthorized use is prohibited. The Art Institute of Chicago. Case 1: Pre publications. Case 2: Pre publications. Case 3: Beware pre foreign publications. Case 4: Copyright formalities 1 of 4.
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