ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million 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.

To search, enter a keyword and, using a pulldown menu, select “All Collections,” “University of Delaware Art History Visual Resources,” “Archivision Digital Research Library,” or “My Personal Library.”. You can also do an advanced search to specify additional search criteria. You can browse by Geography, Classification, and Collection.

The University of Delaware Art History Visual Resources collection is a primary teaching resource for Art History faculty. It covers architecture, painting, sculpture, graphics, decorative arts, and material culture from pre-historic times to the modern era. Although the collection originally focused on Western European and traditional American art history, it also includes non-Western arts such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Tibetan, sub-Saharan and Nilotic African arts, and Islamic arts. The collection also embraces photography and graphic design and contemporary developments in video/performance art and sculpture/installation art. It also reflects current interests in women’s art, so-called “outsider art,” and African-American painting and sculpture. This collection is constantly growing in support of teaching and research within the department.

The Archivision Digital Research Library - Base Collection (16,000 images) is a core architecture collection representing major Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, 18th & 19th Century, and Modern sites. The focus is the Italian Renaissance and Baroque and Modern architecture, especially the work of Louis Kahn and Le Corbusier. The collection also includes gardens & parks, city skylines, cityscapes, and public art as well as other design-related topics, such as C.R. Mackintosh furniture drawings, etc. Addition Module One completes holdings on Renaissance and Baroque Rome not included in the Base Collection. It also contains Ancient Egyptian material (close to 2000 images). The collection also includes Islamic material in Egypt, as well as overview sets on Cairo, Aswan, and Luxor. Many contemporary sites are also included, especially those in Vancouver, Seattle, Boston and Montreal. Module Two contains Andrea Palladio material (over 700 images); all of the Hector Guimard collection (229 images); Fascist architecture in Italy; holdings from London, England; and additional Ancient Greek and Bramante material not contained in the other modules. It also includes Islamic architecture in Turkey plus contemporary architecture in Florida, New York, Montreal, and Washington DC. The Module is rounded out with 300 exquisite new photographs of the exterior and interiors of Mackintosh’s Hill House. Addition Module Three spans contemporary (Millennium Park in Chicago; works by Gehry, Pelli, Calatrava and Libeskind) to the ancient world (the mosaics from Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina, Sicily; Ephesus and other monuments of the Roman Empire) and in between (French chateaux and gardens; Byzantine architecture in Mystras; Venice). Other highlights include the rest of our holdings on Frank Lloyd Wright; major murals of Diego Rivera and excellent coverage of Oxford photographed in May of 2007.