Research Guides: Ancient Studies: Find Images & Video

Video and Image Collections

Find more streaming video resources on the Library's Streaming Video Guide

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Films On Demand: Master Academic Package (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
Films On Demand‘s platform provides every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study. It supplies 37,000 titles in 985 categories.
Films on Demand: Archival Films & Newsreels Collection (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
This collection of 4,606 titles is a trove of archival and historical films from multiple sources that supplements the Films on Demand: Master Academic Package.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
The ARTstor Digital Library is an online resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
To use the full functionality of the Artstor Digital Library you must be logged in through the library website and have created a personal account.
-The basic/advanced search on the Artstor homepage searches the Artstor Digital Library and Public Collections [we have no institutional collections]
-You do not need a personal account to search but you do need it to save images.
-Your saved images will appear in Personal Collections, you will have to login to retrieve/view your images.
-Images saved for a class or presentation can be shared in Groups. Anybody with a personal account can create a Group (you will see UMBC examples when you click on Groups)
Additional Help
Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online offers users access to: Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, as well as additional articles and bibliographies. Account allows for a maximum of three concurrent users.

Walters Art Museum [Online Art Collection]
The Walters houses thousands of artworks from around the world and across the centuries. High resolution images and detailed information on individual works can be downloaded. Both basic and advanced searching is available along with defined browsing categories.
Classical Art Research Centre and Beazley Archive
The Classical Art Research Centre leads and supports research on ancient art. The Archive contains the world's largest collection of photographs of ancient Greek painted pottery, as well as relevant books and offprints, extensive material on the history of gem-collecting, and thousands of other documents and photographs relating to classical archaeology.
Pompeii Bibliography & Mapping Project
This second map by the PBMP is updated with new data and a richer environment, users can explore all 640,000 square meters of Pompeii’s urban landscape from an overview of the entire site to individual objects, such as fountains, millstones, or stepping-stones.